Salima Hashmi

Salima Hashmi is an artist, curator, and contemporary art historian. She is currently emerita professor and director of the UNESCO Madanjeet Institute of South Asian Art. She has curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary art and traditional textiles both in Pakistan and abroad, including most recently a show of photography, Watan, by Graciela Magnoni in Dubai (2024), the critically acclaimed exhibition, This Night-Bitten Dawn, New Delhi (2016), and Hanging Fire, an exhibition of Pakistani Contemporary Art for Asia Society Museum, New York (2009).

Hashmi has written and published extensively. She is a council member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Hashmi is the daughter of Urdu poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and chairperson of Faiz Foundation Trust.