Zara Asgher is a visual artist and educator from Lahore, Pakistan, currently living and practicing in Finland.
Through the act of drawing and painting she examines social structures that shape embodied experiences
of gender and sexuality. This interest extends to how these power dynamics shift when one moves from
a familiar cultural context to a different one.
Repetition plays a central role in this process—through repetition, norms take hold, structuring our
movements, desires, and ways of being. By tracing moments where the body slips—where it disconnects
from itself, where friction exposes the instability of what is expected— Asgher explores how new modes
of sensing and becoming emerge.
Asgher holds a BFA from National College of Arts, Lahore. She was awarded a full scholarship to pursue
an MA in Nordic Visual Studies and Art Education at Aalto University, Finland.

WORKS

To be at the Same Time Inhibited and Inhabited

Divided, Divisible I, acrylics on vellum drafting sheets layered, 35.6 x 28 cm, 2025

Dissonant Bodies, acrylics and graphite on vellum drafting sheets layered, 35 x 25 cm, 2024

Body as a Site of Negotiation I, acrylics and graphite on vellum drafting sheets layered, 35 x 25 cm, 2023

Body as a Site of Negotiation II, risograph, 42 x 39 cm, 2023

Palimpsestic Rupture, graphite and acrylics on paper, 92 x 70 cm, 2024

A Tower to Reach the Heavens II, graphite and acrylics on paper, 92 x 70 cm, 2024

De-forming, Re-forming, graphite and acrylics on paper, 93 x 62 cm, 2023