Bio

Saba Khan’s interdisciplinary work stretches over the fields of art, ecology, performance, colonial histories which come together through expeditions, research and fieldwork. The work explores the history and politics of water bodies, flow, fluidity - bodies blocking water and bodies moving along water. Saba's multimedia works traffic in the language of memorial, monument and public projects. From miniature dioramas of a bureaucrat's boring office, flashing LED of retro sci-fi machines seen at power stations to indigo textile banners honouring peasant revolts; she balances grandeur, artifice and satire in order to explore the cracks in the structures. She has taught at the National College of Arts, Lahore for 13 years and now teaches at the Chelsea College of Arts as an Associate Lecturer. In 2014 founded Murree Museum Artist Residency that continued as a satirical collective ‘Pak Khawateen Painting Club’ in 2019. Saba currently lives and works in between London/Lahore.

She recently exhibited at Elevation 1049 (2025), Swiss Institute, USA (2024), National Museums of Qatar, Doha (2024), Gangwon Triennial (2024), Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2022), Jameel Art Centre (2022), Paul Mellon Centre (2021), Lahore Biennial 02, Pakistan (2020), COMO Lahore (2019) and Karachi Biennial (2017). She attended residencies at Casa Wabi (2025), Art Explora (2025), Unidee (2024), Delfina Foundation (2023), Onassis AiR (2022), Para Site Hong Kong (2018), Gwangju Biennial (2016), Civitella Ranieri Foundation (2007). She has previously received grants from 421 (2022), Foundation for the Arts Initiative (2018), Sharjah Art Foundation (2020), Graham Foundation (2020), British Council (2020, 2021, 2022).

Her work is in the collections of Ford Foundation, Jameel Art Centre, Sharjah Art Foundation, South Asia Art Institute, Servais Collection and Taimur Hassan Collection has been published in the New York Times, Stir World and Asia Art Pacific.