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Aleena Akbar Khan (b.1999) is an interdisciplinary artist working between Pakistan and USA. She works across media, moving between sculptural installation, drawing, publication, sound and video. 

Her practice employs methods of translation that attempt to articulate the inherent failures/glitches of technology, scientific knowledge production and institutional power structures. Through various virtual, fictive, and physical interlocutors, her work probes the way information is materialized in our world, and considers how meaning can be abstracted, fractured, or fictionalized through loops of translation. Her practice lies on the edge of irony, humor and improvisation to build a language broader than personal, or geographical specificities.

She gained her BFA from National College of Arts, Pakistan in 2022 and has since completed multiple residencies internationally. In 2022, she received a year-long grant from the Vasl Artist Association, Karachi and was most recently the recipient of the Prince Claus Seed Award in 2024.