Nina Ashraf is a Pakistani-American artist who migrated to the US 30 years ago. Her art is influenced both by the artistic heritage of her birth country and her chosen home: a dance between eastern sensibilities and western ideals. Her art explores history and identity and she explores themes of space and gestures of the line.
Her passion to create stems from her upbringing in an art-filled home, frequented by artist and poet friends of her art loving parents, many of whom were later considered leading voices of contemporary South Asian art.
Her creativity is influenced by memories of the cultural and physical landscape of her birth city where vibrant colors, scents, and textures permeate the scenery: the profusion of pattern and geometric design in clothing, pottery, and architecture; and the myriad hues of the nearby Indian Ocean.
Nina has exhibited widely including the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and the Detroit Historical Museum and won numerous awards including the 2021 Medal for Drawing at the Florence Biennale, Italy and nomination for Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2022.
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Nina Ashraf – “Do what sets your soul on fire!”
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Nina Ashraf – “Stay awake, don’t go back to sleep”
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Nina Ashraf – “Be wild crazy and drunk with love”
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Nina Ashraf – “Your heart knows the way, run in that direction”
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Nina Ashraf – “Close you eyes, fall in love stay there”
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Nina Ashraf – “Look at the smile of the rose” [SOLD]
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Nina Ashraf – “You were born to fly, why crawl?”
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Nina Ashraf – “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do” [SOLD]
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Nina Ashraf – “We are born of love”
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Nina Ashraf – “Don’t seek water, seek thirst”
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Nina Ashraf – “You are an ocean in a drop”
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Nina Ashraf – “Love is the bridge between you and everything” [SOLD]
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Nina Ashraf – “Shine- as if the whole universe is yours”
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Nina Ashraf – “Forget stories told by others, create your own myth””
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Nina Ashraf – “It is your light that lights the world”
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Nina Ashraf – “Within you is an artist you don’t know yet”
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Nina Ashraf – “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves fall”
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Nina Ashraf – “The womb is where love is first planted”