Khadim Ali

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Khadim Ali (Urdu: خادم علی, born 1978 in Quetta) is a Pakistani-Australian painter of Afghan descent, a member of the Hazaras ethnic group.

Life[]

Khadim Ali was born in 1978 in the Pakistani city of Quetta to a family of refugees from Afghanistan, who belonged to the Hazaras ethnic minority. They were forced to flee in time to British India due to massacres against their people. As a child he was exposed to the beauty of Pirdusi's Persian epic work Shahnameh and the miniature paintings that illustrated it. From 1999-1998 he studied wall painting and calligraphy in Tehran. In 2003 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in art from the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, where he specialized in painting traditional miniatures. After being a guest artist in Japan as a guest artist at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in 2006, in 2010 Ali moved to Sydney, Australia. In 2012 he graduated with a master’s degree in arts from the University of New South Wales.

Using classical miniature methods, Ali drew new illustrations for "Shahanama". Ali uses images from history, poetry, mythology and politics to investigate through art the events of the wars in Afghanistan, the persecution, exile and discrimination. In 2006 the artist participated in the Venice Biennale and in 2012 at the Documenta exhibition of contemporary art in Kassel.^[1]

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