Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi was born in Hyderabad and graduated from the National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore, in 1993, where he lives and works. He is a leading contemporary painter and a pioneer of Pakistan’s neo-miniature movement. His art integrates contemporary themes with the motifs and techniques of the Mughal miniature painting tradition, dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries including the use of gold leaf and emulsions. Art in Embassies commissioned the three paintings in the US Embassy collection in Islamabad as examples of his imaginative techniques. Qureshi’s art often explores the contradictions and tensions between tradition and modernity, as well as themes of social violence. Since...