MFA Painting, Room 310
Nabeel Naveed
“Black Tree,” 12” x 8.5” , Oil on Muslin
In his practice of image-making, Nabeel Naveed explores emotions of escape, guilt, trauma, time, freedom, and existence within the evolving condition of the postcolony. Represented through painting, assemblage, and the moving image, each medium serves as an agency to construct relationships between complex systems of control. These relationships intersect with his history of erasure and access to information. In representing this ecosystem, Naveed employs metaphors drawn from identity and culture, the entanglement of urban fabric, the existence of nation-states, power, and the chokehold of fact, fiction, history, and their collateral effects.
Nabeel Naveed
Nabeel Naveed (b. 1997) is a visual artist based in Philadelphia. He received his undergraduate degree from the National College of Arts, Lahore, and is currently pursuing his Master of Fine Arts at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, USA. In 2025, Naveed exhibited in Memory and Material at Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia; TBD at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia; and Fugue/Body, a three-person show at Khaas Contemporary, Lahore.