Fatima Kaleem Khan Pakistan, b. 1999

Fatima Kaleem Khan (b. 1999) is a visual artist whose practice examines discipline as it weaves through the home, the school, and the soap opera in Pakistan. Her work attends to how these sites of social reproduction converge at the military-industrial complex, which maintains deep stakes in both education and media. Working primarily in drawing, she reworks stills from television and institutional social media to explore the friction between drama and discipline, referencing the ‘fabrication’ of state-sanctioned virtue through materials like synthetic hair, collage, and embroidery. 

Her exhibitions include the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Richmond; Asia NOW, Paris; Ways of Being, Toronto/Mumbai; and Focal Point, Sharjah Art Book Fair. Her work has been shown at Method Art Space, Delhi; and through collaborations with the National College of Arts, Lahore. She is the recipient of a residency at Gasworks (London) and the Virginia Commonwealth University Fellowship at The Studios at Mass MoCA.