Lubna Chowdhary

Lubna Chowdhary was born in Tanzania in 1964 to Pakistani parents and moved to England in 1970. She received her BA from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1988 and an MA from the Royal College of Art in 1991.

Throughout her practice, Chowdhary bridges the disciplines of ceramics, architecture, craft and most recently printmaking, to address a longstanding preoccupation with material culture. Chowdhary's work thrives on relationships between diverse historical references, visual languages, materials and modes of production. Through experiments in aesthetic hybridity, her work negotiates cross-cultural narratives of modernity. She had her first solo exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute, London in 1993.

In 2024 Chowdhary presented a solo exhibition at Graves Gallery, Sheffield, unveiling work from residencies at Mahler & Lewitt Studios in Italy and in India.

Other recent solo and group exhibitions include Cristea Roberts Gallery, London (2025); Goodwood Art Foundation, Chichester (2025);  The Box, Plymouth (2024); MK Gallery, Milton Keynes (2023); Hayward Gallery, London (2022); Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough (2022); Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (2021); PEER, London (2021); Fundacion Juan March, Madrid (2025); Hayy Jameel, Jeddah (2024);  Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2023); Islamic Arts Biennale, Jeddah (2023); Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2022); Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney (2020); Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2020).

Recent commissions include a permanent installation for Greenwich Pumping Station, London in 2025 and a large-scale public installation at East Bank Stratford for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in 2024.

Public collections that hold Chowdhary’s work include Abingdon Museum, Oxfordshire; Arts Council England, UK; Sheffield Museums Trust, Sheffield; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham; Cartwright Hall, Bradford; Fiorucci Art Trust, Italy; Government Art Collection, UK; Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai; Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; Leicester City Museum, Leicester; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Mead Gallery, Warwick; Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesborough; Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham; Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham; Poole Museum, Dorset; Sheffield Museums, Sheffield; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich; Touchstones, Rochdale; University of Warwick.

The artist has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize in Ceramics, the Annual Freelands Foundation Award, the Juda Foundation Award, the Paul Hamlyn Award and has completed artists residencies at Camden Arts Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum London, IASPIS Stockholm and Mahler & Lewitt Italy and The Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Travel Award.

The artist published her first suite of editions with Cristea Roberts Gallery in 2025.

Lubna Chowdhary lives and works in London.