‘Portrait of The Artist’ by Shahzia Sikander has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Museums, Washington DC. This series is also being exhibited at the exhibition ‘I To Eye’ at the National Portrait Gallery. This series ‘Portrait of an Artist’ is also in the AAN Collection.
Portrait of An Artist by Shahzia Sikander is currently being exhibited at the Pace Galleries in New York City. An edition of this work is also in the AAN Collection. This work is also in the collection of the Smithsonian Museums, Washington DC.
Our Founder and Director Amna Naqvi featured in Artomity magazine Winter 2018/2019 issue. Amna Naqvi has been featured in their Collectors Series! Works featured in the article are by Tsang Kin Wah and Wilson Sheih!
An interview with COBO Social on AAN Collection, AAN Foundation and AAN Gandhara Art Space.
Amna is the founder of AAN Foundation and AAN Collection. She is an avid art collector, philanthropist, publisher, supporter and collaborator of art projects and initiatives. These projects have led to the development of the contemporary Pakistani art space both locally as well as globally over the last fifteen years. The AAN Collection co...mprises of over 800 works of art ranging from 3rd Century Gandhara sculptures, 17th Century Mughal miniatures and contemporary art.
Works from the collection have been part of major exhibitions at institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, The Venice Biennial and The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The collection is complimented by the AAN Foundation which supports art exhibitions and projects in Asia as well as globally.
A significant part of the AAN Foundation’s aim is to provide support at the very initial stages to projects which could become platforms for further strengthening the artistic space in their own areas and geographies.
Along with her art projects and initiatives, Amna Naqvi also owns the cricket team, Islamabad United. The team is the winner of the Pakistan Super League Championship in 2018 as well as the winner of the inaugural Pakistan Super League Championship in 2016. Having completed her MBA from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), she previously worked as a banker and describes herself as an avid reader and an intrepid traveler.
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'The Dead Tigers of British India-in full colour' is a work by Fazal Rizvi which was shown at the Lahore Fort at the Lahore Biennale. This work is in the AAN Collection!
Title: The Dead Tigers of British India - in full colour
Artits: Fazal Rizvi
2018...
Seven 3d printed tiger paw foot from the throne of Tipu Sultan, Publication
Fazal Rizvi graduated from the National College of Arts, Lahore. He is an interdisciplinary artist exploring notions of memory, loss, erasures, and migration. For LB01 the artist sifted through the archival material from the British Raj era, specifically from images of tiger hunts that display and celebrate the subjugation of one at the hands of another.
- Text & Image Credits: LB01 & LBF
‘Cosmic Ninja’ by Samya Arif has been featured on the cover of the publication ‘Women’s Club’ which has been published by @monsapublications Barcelona. This work is in the AAN Collection. This work was shown at the exhibition titled Microcosm which was curated at AAN Gandhara Art Space by Adeel Uz Zafar.
AAN is pleased to launch its website which will feature all its aspects including Collection, Foundation, Art Space and Publications. This will cover all aspects since the collection began in 1994 and morphed into an eco system which which features art making, exhibition making, art research and writing, collaborations and patronage of visual art.
The AAN Collection is most pleased and honoured that its founders Amna amd Ali Naqvi are on this august list yet again. 'The Power House of Asia' - Top 100 Collectors in Asia' has just been published. Pleased to be representing art from Pakistan on this list..
"Twenty two years of passionate and focused collecting has led to this. So happy to be the custodian of historic and seminal works in the AAN Collection which has been exhibited in over 45 museums and public institutions worldwide" - Amna Naqvi
Works from the AAN Collection on loan to the Lahore Biennial '01 included two works 'Veil' and Unveiled by Aisha Khalid, Parallax by Shahzia Sikander and 'Interzar Farmayaie' by Atif Khan
'Unveiled', 2007 by Aisha Khalid was exhibited at the Lahore Biennale 01 alongside her book 'Page To Page' and Veil, 2007 (AAN Collection). This work which is in the AAN Collection is from Aisha's work where she uses pages of a notebook to comment on social, political and cultural issues. This work was one of the two works from the AAN Collection which were exhibited at the Mubarak Haveli one of the sites for the Lahore Biennale.The AAN Collection has the largest repository of Aisha Khalid's work and has many historic works in its collection
The AAN Collection at LUMS
AAN Foundation is pleased to announce ‘AAN Collection at LUMS’ which is a collaboration between the AAN Foundation and the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Under this initiative a number of Pakistani modern and contemporary artworks including the works of modernists Sadequain and Gulgee and works by contemporary artists such as Imran Qureshi, Aisha Khalid and Naiza Khan from the AAN Collection will be exhibited at Suleman Dawood Scho...ol of Business at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Under this project, 22 works from the AAN collection will be on loan to LUMS for public display for a period of 12 months. The works include works from modern masters like Sadequain, Gulgee, Jamil Naqsh . The project also includes works of contemporary artists Imran Qureshi, Aisha Khalid, Naiza Khan, Faiza Butt and Muhammad Zeeshan
Amna Naqvi speaks in an interview with Sotheys about her collection and patronage of the arts.
In exquisite postcard sized paintings, Risham Syed shows the ever changing urban landscape in Lahore, Pakistan. Instead of idealised postcard images for tourists, Syed depicts the construction work which transforms her home city. The recently built houses in Lahore’s new residential quarters have perfectly finished facades but unfinished back walls. She reveals these darker, neglected areas which are not for public view. – Manchester Art Galleries
The Honolulu Museum of Art presents internationally recognized artist Shahzia Sikander’s immersive 15-minute, 45-foot-wide video animation melding her signature contemporary take on Indo-Persian miniature painting with 21st-century digital technology that she created for the Sharjah Biennial in 2013.
The multichannel installation, composed of hundreds of digitally animated images taken from Sikander’swatercolor, gouache and ink paintings, and featuring atmospheric music and sound by Du Yun, will fill the entire Henry R. Luce Gallery. Visitors can take a seat in front of the wide, arced screen and let mesmerizing imagery flow over them, as it builds in intensity
Amna Naqvi’s lifelong love of art, literature and learning has come together in the AAN Foundation, an effort to provide support and platforms for cultural projects related to Asia. Born in Pakistan, Amna and her family now call Hong Kong home, having also lived previously in Indonesia and Singapore. Although contemporary art is a major passion—the AAN Collection is the largest such private assemblage of Pakistani contemporary art—history figures prominently in her interests and in her development as a collector and arts patron. Alexandra Seno talks with Amna about her connection with art.