Come to the exhibition, bring home this stunning poster! Risham Syed: Destiny Fractured features newly created artworks based on The Newark Museum of Art’s collection.

Some of the inspirational artworks from the NMOA collection include American landscapes, Chinese scroll paintings, and the period rooms in The Ballantine House - a variety of mediums, including videos, embroidered silk panels, installations with paintings and objects, and printed textiles.

Risham Syed is a Lahore-based artist and professor of fine arts at Beaconhouse National University. She uses painting, as well as other mediums, to explore questions of history, sociology, and politics. Her native city plays the main role in her work, as do related inquiries into what the colonial history of the region has meant to today’s culture. She explores these questions using her paintings as pieces of a greater, often global context through installation and use of objects with social reference and connotation.