Suleman Aqeel Khilji (b.1985 in Quetta) is currently based in London. He has previously lived and worked in Lahore, Pakistan.
He is a graduate of the National College of Arts Lahore, Pakistan where he achieved a distinction in painting and graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2025, where he was awarded the Stewarts Art Prize and has been honoured with the prestigious Edna Rose Weiss Award.
He takes a research/process based approach to art-making; working with various mediums and by collaborating drawing, painting, printmaking, and digital techniques. His interest in drawing and photography leads him to use film stills, images from art history, and press shots as the basis for painting, and to locate the boundary of abstraction and figuration in enlarged images. He has exhibited works in group and solo shows, including his solo show “See View” at IVS Gallery, Karachi and “Inayat and Others” at Sanat Gallery, Karachi. His works are part of prestigious collections such as DIL Foundation New York, Shahrukh Khan Collection and Luciano Benetton Collection.