Mansoora Hassan

Pakistan, 1953 - 2024

BiographyAfter graduating from the National College of Arts, Lahore, she got an MFA from Pratt Institute, New York. She was invited to exhibit in Al-Fann-Die Kunst in Hann, Munden, She took an exhibition, "Women Artists of Pakistan" to Tokyo, Japan in 1996. The same year selections from the "Original Print Calendar" was shown at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC. Hassan became actively involved in the Washington Women's Art center in 1977. She moved to La Paz, Bolivia, from 1981-1983 and exhibited widely in South America including the National Museum of Art in La Paz, Bolivia. Museo de Maldanado Montevideo, Uruguay. Hassan's works were included in the International Trinalle in Bangladesh and India, the Cultural Arts Festival of Asilah, Morocco (1993, 1994, 1998); in 1993 solo exhibitions in Tunis, Tunisia; 1995 “An Intelligent Rebellion”, travelling exhibition (United Kindom, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France), "Women in Art and Culture” in Beijing (China), "Global Focus Artists” in Moscow (Russia); "Women Artists of Pakistan" to Tokyo (Japan in 1996. The same year selections from the "Original Print Calendar" was shown at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC 1997 Malta Bienalle. Hassan's latest work has been inspired by texts of classical as well as contemporary writers and poets. Hassan continues to employ various techniques that she has experimented with and further developed along the years. Although architectural elements, marks, symbols, and gestures, continue to be woven into the multi-layered mixed media paintings, the "process" from which the final work is derived is now secondary to what the "story" communicates.

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