The Most Famous
PAINTERS from Pakistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Pakistani Painters. The pantheon dataset contains 2,023 Painters, 1 of which were born in Pakistan. This makes Pakistan the birth place of the 75th most number of Painters behind Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Malta.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Pakistani Painters of all time. This list of famous Pakistani Painters is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Nalini Malani (b. 1946)
With an HPI of 34.68, Nalini Malani is the most famous Pakistani Painter. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Nalini Malani (born 19 February 1946) is an Indian artist, among the country's first generation of video artists. She works with several mediums which include theater, videos, installations along with mixed media paintings and drawings. The subjects of her creations are influenced by her experience of migration in the aftermath of the partition of India. Pressing feminist issues have become a part of her creative output. Malani uses a visual language that moves from stop motion, erasure animations, reverse paintings and to digital animations, where she draws directly with her finger onto a tablet. Malani made her first video work 'Dream Houses' (1969), as the youngest and only female participant of the Vision Exchange Workshop (VIEW), an experimental multi-disciplinary artist workshop in Bombay (Mumbai) by late artist Akbar Padamsee. Her works have been shown at various museums, including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the National Gallery in London, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
2. Muniba Mazari (b. 1987)
With an HPI of 25.06, Muniba Mazari is the 2nd most famous Pakistani Painter. Her biography has been translated into 23 different languages.
Muniba Mazari Baloch (Urdu: منیبہ مزاری; born 3 March 1987) is a Pakistani activist, anchor, artist, model, singer and motivational speaker. She became the National Ambassador UN Women Pakistan by BBC in 2015. She also made it to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for 2016.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Pakistani painters born between 1946 and 1987. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Pakistani painters include Nalini Malani, and Muniba Mazari. As of April 2024, 1 new Pakistani painters have been added to Pantheon including Nalini Malani.
