Jovita Alvares – Lahore Biennale 2018
Jovita Alvares is a recent graduate from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and has joined Al Nissa Communications as Assistant and Designer as well as Sub-Editor and Writer for ArtNow Pakistan. As valedictorian for the class of 2016, Alvares has received her undergraduate degree in fine art with a distinction in thesis and an overall distinction. She has received numerous awards including the Imran Mir Art Prize in 2016.
Alvares is a visual artist by profession and has had multiple group shows in Karachi and Dubai. She has also participated in the 4th Sanat artist residency earlier this year. Settled and working in Karachi, she regularly reviews and interviews for the magazine.
Naiza Khan – Venice Biennale 2017
Naiza Khan currently lives between London and Karachi. She is Senior Advisor at the Department of Visual Studies, University of Karachi, and a member of the Board of Governors, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi.
Nimra Khan – Lahore Biennale 2018
Nimra Khan is an artist and art writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. She graduated from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture with a Bachelors in Fine Art in 2012 and was the recipient of the Dr. Saieem-uz-Zaman Siddiqui Award for Best Dissertation. She has been part of a number of group shows and her essays and reviews on Pakistani art have been published in numerous exhibition catalogues of the Sanat Gallery, and in Dawn EOS, ArtNow Pakistan, Newsline and the Friday Times. Her writings were also featured in “The First 50”, a collection of essays and articles published by the Sanat Initiative.
Quddus Mirza – Art Dubai 2018
Quddus Mirza is a well-known art critic, artist and educator. He is Professor and Head of the Fine Arts department at his alma mater National College of Arts (NCA) in Lahore. Mirza has written comprehensively about art in Pakistan for several national and international publications. He has also co-authored the books “50 Years of Visual Arts in Pakistan”, “The Rising Tide” and “Hanging Fire”. He is the Editor at ArtNow Pakistan and also writes for The News.
Quddus Mirza has successfully curated several national and international art exhibitions. In his long career as a painter he is known for his spontaneous yet calculated multifarious themes in acrylics and oil primarily.
Saira Danish Ahmed- Karachi Biennale 2017
Saira Danish Ahmed is the Associate Editor at ArtNow Pakistan and General Manager, Al Nissa Communications. She has a postgraduate degree in Art & Design Education from the University of New South Wales, Australia and another in History from Karachi University.
Ahmed has been an active member of Advisory Committee for Foundation Program at the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture(IVS )from 2010 till 2012 and was appointed as a Consultant for Art Syllabus (Secondary School Certificate at The Aga Khan University-Examination Board (AKU) from 2009 till 2011. She has been associated with the Textile Institute of Pakistan (TIP) as Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator from the years 2009-2012 and as Adjunct Faculty till 2017. She has also served as HS Art Teacher for the Advanced Placement program at the Karachi American School from 2003 till 2007.Art History and Academic Writing has been her core area in teaching.
She served as a special correspondent representing ArtNow Pakistan at the Karachi Biennale 2017 and was also a member of the Karachi Biennale Discursive.
Mother of two boys and married to Syed Danish Ahmed she is settled in Karachi.
Sophia Balagamwala- Dhaka Art Summit 2018