Tania Qurashi

Tania Qurashi (b. 1998, Philadelphia) is a Philadelphia-based artist whose work navigates cultural and racial melancholy through symbolic objects, vessels, and floral motifs. Working primarily in painting and drawing, she engages with imagery tied to her Pakistani and Guatemalan heritage, using still life compositions to examine personal and collective histories. In her work, Qurashi uses flowers as figurative representations of these themes, negotiating between origin and displacement, while the spatial relationships between objects in her compositions evoke both distance and connection, reflecting the complexities of cultural identity and personal history.

Qurashi received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the Asian Arts Initiative, Stella Elkins Gallery, Amos Eno Gallery, Fjord, and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, among others. She was awarded the Brodsky Center of PAFA James V. Nixon Jr. Award, and her work has been featured in New American Paintings.