Ayesha Jatoi was trained as a Miniature painter at the National College of the Arts in Lahore. Her practice primarily explores the traditional manuscript’s symbiotic relationship between the image and text and the spatial division of these “illuminated pages”.

In Jatoi’s work, text often frees itself all together of the image. While being immersed in local ancient aesthetics of iconography, she simultaneously questions the relevance of traditional modes of constructing images today; resulting in a practice, which takes on hybrid forms.

Her work has been exhibited widely locally as well as internationally - most recently at the Shanghai Biennale, the Dhaka Art Summit, WIP: Konsthall, Stockholm, and Nelson Atkins Museum, USA and the Sharjah Art Foundation.

Born in 1979 in Islamabad, she lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan.