Haider Ali Naqvi, born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1992, earned his BFA from the National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore in 2015, where he was honored with a Distinction in Thesis and the Sir Percy Brown Award for Excellence in History of Arts.
Naqvi’s artistic journey includes notable residencies such as articulate studios, Lahore in 2023, the Gasworks Artist Residency in the UK in 2019, a solo residency at VASL in 2018, and residencies at Sanat Initiative in 2017 and Avant-garde and Kitsch gallery in 2015.
In 2023, he received the Nigaah Art Prize in the drawing category, and in 2019, he was awarded the Imran Mir Art Prize for emerging artists from Pakistan.
Currently, he works as permanent faculty for the Department of Fine Art at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and has exhibited at numerous shows both nationally and internationally.
