Amber Arifeen draws around her own experience as a traveler through Pakistan's natural landscape, reflecting on her frustration with the ways women are denied access to these spaces. Denied the same experiences in the natural landscape due to overpolicing and gender inequality, Arifeen renders these spaces in the vibrant language of her imagination. In aesthetically reclaiming natural land, Arifeen images a visual vocabulary of eco-feminism, and provides a utopian alternative to the unequal landscape.

Amber Arifeen is a Pakistani – American visual and
performance artist, born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed
her masters in painting from Wimbledon College of Arts in 2019. After
completing her undergraduate studies from U.C Berkeley in 2011, she
returned to Pakistan to work with an international women’s reproductive
health organization, giving her exposure to the contrasting realities of
women living in Pakistan, across different classes, and to the ties
that bind them. Her feminist practice and interest in South Asian female
subjectivity draws inspiration from philosophers she studied as an
undergraduate at U.C Berkeley and her experiences of living abroad and
in Pakistan. Arifeen has had five solo shows and several group shows in
Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Dubai, Paris, Berlin, and London. She debuts her work in the United States this year with Rajiv Menon
Contemporary in “Now Streaming” in Los Angeles. In October of 2021
Arifeen was invited to participate at Domus Residency - an eco-feminist
residence located in Southern Italy. Amber was nominated and awarded the
Nigah Art Award for female emerging artist of 2023. Her practice has
evolved and expanded to include painting, performance, sound, animation,
film and sculpture. She works between Hunza, Lahore, and New York.