Samina Iqbal is a practising artist, art historian, and academic. Her research interest is South Asian modern and contemporary art. She received her PhD from the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, in 2016. Her PhD dissertation focused on modern art in Pakistan in the first decade of its establishment through an artist collective called Lahore Art Circle. She is currently working on extending her research by undertaking a comparative study of what modern art entailed for neighbouring countries of Pakistan, including the MENASA region, while examining the respective, purposefully open-ended, dialectical tensions between international, national, and local stylistic concerns of the area—a parallel dialogue to the western canon.
Iqbal has taught studio arts and art history courses at various universities in Pakistan and the US, including Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, and the Appalachian State University North Carolina, plus Beaconhouse National University Lahore. Iqbal is an associate professor in the department of Media Studies, Art & Design at the Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan.
