Mehreen Hashmi

About Mehreen Hashmi

Mehreen Hashmi is an internationally acclaimed visual artist and curator from Karachi, Pakistan. She is the founder and curator of MH Initiatives, an art company, art consultant, and practicing multidisciplinary visual artist from Karachi, Pakistan. Mehreen has been working tirelessly while engaging with the community, executing public art projects, and exhibiting her own artwork internationally. Curator at large, she has curated Pakistan’s first Karachi Art Summit in 2017. She now runs an online art gallery featuring artists from around the globe.

From mentoring to motivating, she has been a great source of introducing art practices and creating awareness of involving people of all backgrounds outside the artist community in Pakistan. While curating and educating, Mehreen has been exhibiting her work locally as well as internationally. Her work is a depiction of her own struggle with development trauma, which also speaks for herself as well as other survivors who have been approaching the audience to develop awareness towards mental health. Recently, her work has been acknowledged by Dutch and Israel newspapers for a project titled 'Kite flying' by Hans Overvliet. She is an acting member of the committee of recommendation for 'Stichting White Cube', a Dutch art organization. She has also received several awards including 'Millennial of Inspiration 2019' and Prince Claus mobility fund.

She is sharing her experiences of curating, exhibiting and art activism of her work as well as her survival journey on her YouTube channel with a series of ‘Sadequain-our legend’ and ‘Behind the art scene’ .

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