Remembrance

About the Artist

Syed A Irfan is a self-taught artist. He was born on 26th May 1985 in Karachi. He developed a passion for miniature painting when he visited with his family at Lahore Museum in 1997. There he saw miniature paintings and started trying miniature art with the help of miniature art books and the internet.

At the age of 17, he for the very first time showed his art piece to the owner of Zenaini Art Gallery, Ms. Saira. She couldn’t believe her eyes. She was really impressed by his work and supported him and included him in the group exhibition in the year 2003 which was his first exhibition in Zenaini Art Gallery with other senior miniaturists.

Irfan has arranged many groups and solo exhibitions in different countries of the world like Pakistan, the USA, Dubai, Turkey, Canada, London, Saudi Arabia, and India, etc. He has done three solos and above 50 group exhibitions in different countries. Mughal Traditional Miniature has actually become his identity. Furthermore, he has also done Orientalism and Contemporary style miniature work.

Seeing his great talent, he’d been awarded by PTV the Best Performance Award in 2007. He won a Special Prize in Sadequain Award Exhibition in 2006, and in 2001 he got first prize in All Degree College Art Exhibition.