Noorain Inam was born in 1998 in Karachi. She lives and works in London. Noorain received the prestigious Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Residency Award for Emerging Artists which includes a residency at Porthmeor Studios, Cornwall in 2023. In 2024, she was awarded a second residency at the historic Studio 5 at Porthmeor.
Noorain studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art and received her MFA in 2022. Before that she trained as a miniature painter in Karachi, later receiving her BFA from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. Through these experiences, she melds miniature painting techniques with Western expressive gestural painting styles, to create complex emotional landscapes. Her first solo exhibition A dream that visited every night was held atIndigo+Madder, London in 2023 (Bio courtesy Indigo+Madder).