Aiza Ahmed | Solo Exhibition
October 24 - November 15, 2025
Viewing Room
Brandi Twilley, Two Tulips II, 2025, Oil on canvas, 30 x 23 in.
Brandi Twilley, White Tulip I, 2025, Oil on canvas, 30 x 23 in.
Brandi Twilley, Yellow Roses and Palette, 2025, Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
Brandi Twilley, Black Tulips I, 2025, Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in.
Aiza Ahmed | Solo Exhibition
October 24 - November 15, 2025
Aiza Ahmed (b. 1997, Lahore, Pakistan; lives and works in New York) is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and video. Her practice contends with borders, migrations, public histories, and private archives within diasporic identities originating from the Indian Subcontinent. Interweaving humor and performance, Ahmed constructs theatrical narratives that unsettle fixed ideas of nationhood, masculinity, and belonging.
Ahmed earned her BFA from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2020) and her MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (2024). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including a recent solo booth at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY (2025); a two-person show at Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA; and a three-person exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, VA. Group exhibitions include The Big Fat South Asian Show, RISD Museum, Providence, RI (2025); What Lovers Do: RISD MFA Painting Exhibition, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2024); Really From, NYC Culture Club, New York, NY (2023); Educate, Christie’s, New York, NY (2020); I Shouted my Laughter to the Stars, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY (2022); First Person, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY (2023); Going Dutch: A Rembrandt Soirée, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY (2017); Now Streaming, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Parable of the Planes, New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), New York, NY (2024); In A Look, VM Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan (2021); and Ladies Who Lunch, Dominion Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan (2021), among others.
She is the recipient of the Graduate Commons Grant Fellowship (2024) and RISD Fellowship (2022) in Providence, RI; the Edith Stone and Walter King Memorial Prize (2019); and the David R. Bean Prize in Fine Arts (2018) at Cornell University. In 2024, she participated in residencies with William Kentridge & Centre for the Less Good Idea at Brown Arts Institute, Providence, RI, and The Macedonia Institute, Chatham, NY. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Silver Art Project.