Born in Lahore, Pakistan. Momina graduated from National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore with the award of Honours. Residing in Lahore, she works as a professional miniature painter, a free-lance artist, jewellery designer and an art educationalist at NCA and previously at Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design(PIFD).
Apart from exhibiting her work in Pakistan she has also exhibited it in London (A/Political), Milan(Barbara Frigerio Contemporary Art), Iran (Qasr Garden Museum), India (Amazon India Fashion Week), Indonesia, Colombo, Kabul, Paris and Dubai. She was shortlisted for the Artraker Award in 2014 and completed an artists’ residency program led by Camden Arts Centre & the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in 2018.
Artist Statement
Momina’s work initially evolved around the psychological theory of cognitive dissonance , which led her to work miniature on bones in a manner which depicted a subtle coalition of beauty and ugliness as a salient feature of her work. Free and intuitive in her art practice through which she tries to make peace with the world, Momina has been presenting all that she contains in the land of hope that resides inside her in response to the happenings and experiences of the mortal world.
In her recent work, the process of gathering, sorting and inscribing bones similarly offers a microcosmic glimpse of a much larger picture; relating it to the fact that how our composure is consistent during times of turmoil.. Trying to develop an aura where people can experience how her soul and body see, feel and respond to unpleasant events. Inscribing her medium of expression; bones against flattened dolls, Mominaunfolds and interconnect a response to the environment where only we can protects ourselves from itself and cognitive distortions. Clustered into particular enclaves as if the self has sorted the contents and applied its own method of taxonomy, her current body of work is titled as: ‘Still composing the narrative within’.
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