Hafsa Nouman (b. 1998, Lahore) is a Pakistani visual artist based in New Haven, Connecticut. Her practice engages memory, ecology, and decolonial inquiry through painting and installation. Nouman’s works exist both as an image and a withheld object. Through reflective surfaces that glimmer and oscillate, she complicates flatness and destabilises the act of looking. The viewer is positioned not as a passive observer, but as an implicated witness, confronted with the conditions that govern visibility, preservation, and loss.
Nouman is the recipient of the Vasl Museum of Repair Grant (2023) and the Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Travelling Grant (2024). Her work has been presented at Perrotin (New York, NY), PALO Gallery (New York, NY), Nguyen Wahed (New York, NY), Dastaangoi (Islamabad) and O Art Space (Lahore). Nouman holds a BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art.