Ghulam Rasul
Artist Information
Lifespan
1942 - 2009
Birth Place
Jalandhar
Category
Pioneers

Biography
Ghulam Rasul was a leading Pakistani painter and a visionary modern printmaker. Born in Jalandhar in 1942, he migrated to Pakistan after the Partition settling near Okara in Punjab with his family. He completed his matriculation at Islamia College, Lyallpur (present-day Faisalabad), before moving to Lahore to pursue formal art education. At the Fine Arts Department of the University of the Punjab, he studied under distinguished teachers such as Anna Molka Ahmed, Naseem Hafeez Qazi, Khalid Iqbal, and Colin David earning his MA in fine arts in 1964. In 1965, Rasul began his teaching career, and the following year he held his first solo exhibition featuring his now-famous painting Buffaloes in...



















