{"title":"Komal Shahid Khan","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKomal Shahid Khan is an Islamabad-based visual artist and educator whose practice expands the language of contemporary miniature painting. She graduated from the University of Punjab, Lahore, in 2012, and completed her MFA from Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, with distinction and a Gold Medal in Miniature Painting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRooted in the classical Indo-Persian miniature tradition, her work uses ornament, surreal symbolism, and narrative tension to examine mockery, human puppetry, desire, and deception. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Regal Deception\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Komal recontextualizes miniature elements into unsettling contemporary dramas where heightened decorative surfaces reveal the illusions of power and the theatre of human behaviour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe has exhibited in Pakistan and internationally, served as Visiting Artist at Harvard’s South Asia Institute, and founded Studio.K.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor collectors, Komal Shahid Khan’s work offers miniature mastery, symbolic intensity, and refined contemporary critique.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"buoyed-by-komal-shahid-khan","title":"\"Buoyed\" by Komal Shahid Khan","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBuoyed\u003c\/em\u003e, gouache and gold pigment on wasli balance soft painted passages with points of reflected light. 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