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Obaid

Sana Obaid is a Glasgow-based interdisciplinary artist from Pakistan. Her journey spans Pakistan, Dubai, Scotland, shaped by sustained learning, cultural exchange, and community engagement. She studied at the National College of Arts, Lahore (BFA, 2007), and in 2013 received the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Scholarship to undertake a fully funded MA at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. In 2024, she graduated with Distinction from the MFA programme at The Glasgow School of Art. as a Saltire Scholar. She received the Chairman’s Medal for Best in the School of Fine Art and was nominated for the GSA Foulis Medal. Recent recognitions include the Art Lab Women in Print Prize, Awarded Residency throughVisual Arts Scotland + Bothy open call, and the Gilbert Bayes Sculptors Award. In 2023, she was shortlisted for the British Council Fellowship and Bloomberg New Contemporary. Obaid has exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions in Pakistan and New York. She recently presented work at the Blue Night Festival in Nuremberg, Germany. Alongside her practice, she facilitates creative workshops in Scotland. She is currently an ACPS Fellow Artist at UCLan and undertaking spiritual training with ZRSOC in Spain.

Disciplines: Printmaking

Location: Glasgow

Materials: Acrylic, Casting, Etching, Lithography, Paper, Pastel, Pen & Ink, Pencil, Photomontage, Screenprinting, Watercolour
Sana Obaid is a Glasgow-based interdisciplinary artist from Pakistan. Her journey spans Pakistan, Dubai, Scotland, shaped by sustained learning, cultural exchange, and community engagement. She studied at the National College of Arts, Lahore (BFA, 2007), and in 2013 received the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Scholarship to undertake a fully funded MA at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. In 2024, she graduated with Distinction from the MFA programme at The Glasgow School of Art. as a Saltire Scholar. She received the Chairman’s Medal for Best in the School of Fine Art and was nominated for the GSA Foulis Medal. Recent recognitions include the Art Lab Women in Print Prize, Awarded Residency throughVisual Arts Scotland + Bothy open call, and the Gilbert Bayes Sculptors Award. In 2023, she was shortlisted for the British Council Fellowship and Bloomberg New Contemporary. Obaid has exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions in Pakistan and New York. She recently presented work at the Blue Night Festival in Nuremberg, Germany. Alongside her practice, she facilitates creative workshops in Scotland. She is currently an ACPS Fellow Artist at UCLan and undertaking spiritual training with ZRSOC in Spain.

Previous Experience

Solo Presentation ‘From the Heart of a Mother’, Solas Eige Center, CIC, Isle of Eigg, Scotland, UK 2026 Love for Peace or DeWar(Wall), Socially Engaged Performance, Nuremberg, Germany 2025 at Blue Night Event “Love and Peace” MFA Degree Show, Glue Factory, Glasgow, UK 2024 Wall/De-War, Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA 2017 Still, life…, Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi. 2012 Epiphany, curated by Aasim Akhtar: Rohtas 1, Islamabad. 2011 Recent Group Exhibitions Suspended, Zhen Yi Gallery, Paris 2026 Women in Print Exhibition, by ACPS at Allan Bank, Grasmere, UK 2026 Holding Conversations, Visual Art Scotland’s Exhibition, Custom lane Gallery, Edinburgh 2026 Threads that Pull, Visual Art Scotland, RSA, Edinburgh Mound. 2025 Border Art Fair, Scotland, UK 2025 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK 2025 Visual Arts Scotland Centenary show at Dalkeith Palace, Edinburgh, UK 2024 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK 2024 RWA 171 Annual Open Exhibition, Bristol, UK 2024 198th

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