Contemporary miniature · Lahore, Pakistan
Amna
Manzoor
آمنہ منظور
Works in gouache and ink that turn threads, knots, ruptures and repeated marks into meditations on selfhood and human relationships.
The practice
Amna Manzoor is a Lahore-based visual artist whose works trace how inner states gather, strain and change over time — one fine line at a time.
Trained in miniature painting at the National College of Arts, Lahore, she has kept a studio practice since 2011, moving between the intimacy of wasli and the scale of canvas. She is an Assistant Professor at the School of Design and Textiles, University of Management and Technology.
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Process
One line,
then the next.
Amna paints in gouache and ink on wasli — the layered, burnished handmade paper of the miniature tradition — and on Arches paper and canvas. Each surface is built through repetition, until threads, knots and webs appear.
- Practice
- Since 2011
- Grounds
- Wasli, Arches, canvas
- Scale
- 4 × 10 in to 6 × 6 ft
Throughout most of her practice, Manzoor has employed the silk thread as a metaphor.
Exhibitions
All exhibitions since 2011- 2026 She Who Creates — A Soft Rupture O Art Space, Lahore Group exhibition
- 2025 Seen and Unseen PNCA, Islamabad Site-specific group show
- 2024 Equilibrium: Where the Lines End Khamsa (online) Solo exhibition
- 2024 Tār-e ḥarīr-e do rang Gurmani Centre, LUMS, Lahore Two-person project
- 2020 Bood o Nabood Koel Gallery, Karachi Two-person project
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