Hiba Schahbaz is a Pakistani-American painter. Schahbaz was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She is known for her contemporary paintings that invoke classical styles.
Schahbaz trained as a miniaturist painter at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, and received an MFA degree from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She began her career painting with a series of miniature paintings, later expanding to larger scale works.
On her early work, she wrote: âÂÂI come from a very traditional family, but I drew nudes even when I was younger. I would just be sitting and drawing myself as a teenager. All over my bedroom walls were these drawings of me naked. No one said to me: âÂÂThis is great, honey. This is what you should be doing.â "
Schahbaz lives and works in New York.