Amra Khan (b. 1984, Islamabad, Pakistan) is an interdisciplinary visual artist, researcher and educator based in Lahore. She graduated with distinction in Painting in 2008 and completed her Master’s in Visual Arts from the National College of Arts, Lahore, which included a semester at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in Paris, France (2010 – 2011).

Khan primarily works with oils, acrylics and miniature painting, incorporating mixed media, textiles, repurposed wood and devotional objects, alongside past explorations in hair sculpture and video installation. Her practice examines the bipolarity of binaries, focusing on gender, sexuality, intimacy and social conditioning, particularly within the framework of religion. She investigates the queer body and the alpha male archetype in the Pakistani Muslim context, challenging dominant norms and exploring how identity is experienced through both the physical body and spiritual selfhood.

Through symbolic representations and contemporary interpretations of altars, her work navigates divine longing, iconography and humanity’s pursuit of spiritual connection. Rooted in South Asian traditions and drawing on objects of devotion and adornment, her practice reflects on modern faith, a maddening passion for the divine and the relentless search for Eden, a pursuit that often erases personal and collective memory.

She has held four solo exhibitions: ‘Gender Nectar’ (Paris, 2011), ‘Ecce Homo – Behold the Man’ (Karachi, 2015), ‘Kacha Gosht’ (Lahore, 2018) and ‘Zakhmi Dil’ (Islamabad, 2024). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in numerous group exhibitions across London, Paris, Basel, Norway and Pakistan, including the Lahore Biennale (01, 02 and 03), ARTROOMS London (2018, 2019) and Asia NOW Paris (2025).

Khan was awarded the Visiting Artist Fellowship at the Mittal Institute, Harvard University (Spring 2024), the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation Residency (2024), and The Thing Is: Curatorial Fellowship with the Lahore Biennale Foundation and the British Council Lahore (Autumn 2025). She is currently an Assistant Professor at Kinnaird College for Women.

Showing with SAC Art Amsterdam for ‘Upon Us After’ from 05.09.2026 – 05.11.2026.