Saba Qizilbash is a visual artist whose practice explores migration, borders and transnational histories through drawings and installations. She holds an MFA from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, an MA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a BFA from the National College of Art, Pakistan. Her work has been recognized with major international awards, including the Vogue Hong Kong Woman Artist of the Year (2020), the UC Berkeley South Asian Artist Award (2022), the Nigaah Art Award in Drawing (2023), the Oxford University’s Mansfield-Ruddock Prize and Pembroke Emery Prize (2022). She was a four-time finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize (2017-2020), and her research practice has been supported by fellowships from the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation for the Arts (in partnership with RISD) and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Arts. Qizilbash has been invited to present lectures and artist talks at institutions such as the Jameel Arts Centre, UC Berkeley, Mansfield College and Pembroke College (Oxford), the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford). Her work has been exhibited internationally across the UK, UAE, Hongkong, the United States, India and Pakistan. Through her practice, Qizilbash brings together artistic inquiry and critical reflection on mobility, the counterflow to colonialism, decolonization of museum collections and a commentary on current geo-politics.