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Tazeen Qayyum is a contemporary miniature painter who received her BFA in Visual Arts from the National College of Arts Lahore, Pakistan, in 1996. Her work has been shown internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, some of which include The Veiled at the Textile Museum of Canada; The Rising Tide: New Directions in Art from Pakistan 1990 -2010, Mohatta Palace Museum, Pakistan; Urban Myths & Modern Fables, University of Sydney, Australia and UTSC, Toronto; A Thousand and One Days: The Art of Pakistani Women Miniaturists at the Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii; JAALA Exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Japan; Homecoming at the National Gallery of Pakistan; and CodeLive Metro at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Her work has received several critical reviews including in The New York Times (2009) and The Globe and Mail (2011). She has created several performance based artworks including a collaborative multidisciplinary project Double Date (2006-07) produced by SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Center), Toronto and AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada; and A Feast in Exile (2009) produced by VASL Artists' Collective, Karachi. Qayyum's work was included in the 10th Asian Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2002); 2nd Painting Biennale, Tehran, Iran (2002); and has been featured at the Sotheby's and Christie's South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art auction in New York (2008-9). Qayyum was awarded a UNESCO bursary (2000) to work and exhibit in Vienna.