Ayesha Sultana (b. 1984) was born in Jashore, Bangladesh, and lives and works in Lilburn, Georgia, USA. Her practice spans drawing, painting and sculpture, exploring the material and conceptual possibilities of form and medium.
Sultana completed her Bachelors in Fine Art in 2007, and a post-graduate diploma in Art Education in 2008 from Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, where she also taught for two years. She is a member of the artist-run organisation, Britto Arts Trust in Dhaka.
Sultana has exhibited worldwide in solo and group exhibitions, including the Dhaka Art Summit (2014 and 2023); Artist’s Rooms, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2022); Shifting the Silence, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (2022); Making Visible, Experimenter, Mumbai (2022, 2017); Bare Bones, Experimenter, Kolkata (2021); Line, Beats and Shadows, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2020); Art Basel (2019); the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9), Queensland (2018); the Lahore Biennale 01, Lahore (2018); and the 11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2016).
Her work has also appeared in group exhibitions at On Site, New Delhi; Queens Museum, New York; Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai; Leila Heller Gallery, New York; and Athr Gallery, Jeddah.
Sultana’s works have been widely collected by institutions that include SFMoMA, San Francisco; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi; X Museum, Beijing; Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka; Tate Modern, London; and the Ishara Art Foundation and Prabhakar Collection, Dubai, amongst others.