Asma Kazi, born in Kuwait in 1976, is a self-taught artist. Before dedicating herself fully to the arts, Kazi built a diverse background in Zoology, Business Strategy, Real Estate, and Analytics. Her career highlights include stints at the Analytics Centre of Excellence with GE Card Services in Bangalore and Cushman & Wakefield’s Tenant Strategies & Solutions division in Bombay. These experiences, combined with her upbringing in Pune and Kuwait, her many hours spent illustrating biology journals, and her fascination with chaos theory, organic ecosystems, evolution, post-apocalyptic mutating worlds, and parallel universes, deeply inform her work. Her practice reflects a unique blend of these influences, characterized by biomorphic forms, intricate patterns, and an overarching theme of metamorphosis and finding order amidst chaos.
Kazi embarked on her artistic journey in 2012, and since then she has participated in group exhibitions both in India and the US. Some of her recent exhibitions include The Centre of the Universe Tastes like Raspberry Sour Sticks and Popping Candy, the first of two shows in a travelling exhibition of miniature art at AKG Micro Gallery, Chicago, United States (2024); I Interpret at Nine FishArt Gallery, Mumbai (2024); Kaleidoscope, group show at TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai (2024); Common Ground at Vida Heydari Contemporary, Pune (2023); The Davos Tentacle at OCAM, Davos, Switzerland (2022); I’m Speaking, online group show with PXP Contemporary, United States (2021); and Ancient Tongues and Tales at Fernie Brae, Portland, United States (2019), amongst others. Noteworthy among her commercial art endeavours is her collaboration on artwork created for Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hachette Books, Zee TV and Hoshruba Repertory. Alongside her visual artistry, Kazi explores the realms of magical realism and speculative fiction through her writing. Her story “Bahameen” was published as part of a 13-story anthology titled Magical Women, by Hachette Books India.
Asma Kazi lives and practices in Pune, India.
