Shamsul Arfeen Hashmi, a 26-year-old Pakistani visual artist, has had one of his pieces chosen for the 16th Arte Laguna Prize, which will take place in Venice, Italy, in 2023.
International visual artist Shamsul Arfeen, who is based in Lahore, graduated from the National College of Arts Lahore in 2019 with a concentration in painting.
His work displayed both domestically and abroad in galleries such as Canvas Gallery Karachi, Ejaz Art Gallery, O Art Space Lahore, and Return on Art Gallery (Austria, Vienna).
Arfeen is also active as playback and classical vocalist with training in classical music. He got the NCA Theatre Society’s Best Actor Award in 2019 and just joined the renowned Pakistani Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for more classical music instruction.
In the COLAB’S Lahore artist residency, he has also experimented with his artistic practice. Arfeen’s artwork is on show among pieces by well-known artists like Damien Hirst, Sadequain, Imran Qureshi, and Ismail Gulgee.
About Arte Laguna Prize
The Arte Laguna Prize was established in 2006. It is an international art competition for many artistic mediums, including visual, performing, multimedia, landscape, and digital arts, with the goal of advancing contemporary art and mapping its state at the time. Furthermore, The competition stands out in the world of art for the diversity of partnerships and opportunities it provides to artists. It is on a global scale as a true career launchpad for those artists.
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