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Produced during a recent residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico, Mumtaz's paintings meditate on instances of disappearance evident throughout the western landscape. Humble in scale but vast in their depiction of space, his tiny, enigmatic paintings raise oblique questions about the fate of indigenous culture and open land. These inquiries are relevant to a wide range of post-colonial landscapes, including that of his native Pakistan, where the land continues to be a site of conflict between traditional societies and modern economic interests. Many of the works in the exhibition were composed using natural pigments derived from mineral, earth, and plant material collected in New Mexico and prepared using methods traditional to South Asia.

A native of Lahore, Mumtaz received a BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, and an MFA from Columbia University, which he attended on a Fulbright Fellowship. His work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S., Germany, India, and Pakistan. He currently lives and works in Lahore.

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