This is a list of British Asian artists, born in or associated with the UK, who are notable in visual arts as designers, painters, photographers and sculptors.
The Office for National Statistics uses the term "Asian, Scottish Asian or British Asian" to include British Indians, British Pakistanis, British Bangladeshis, British Chinese people and people of any other Asian ancestry.
The 1989 exhibition, The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain, curated by Rasheed Araeen is recognised as a key exhibition in British Asian art history.
In 1963, The Indian Painters Collective UK was founded, before Indian Artists UK (IAUK) was established in 1976.
In 1988, the Panchayat Arts and Education Resource Unit (known as the Panchayat Collective) was founded to collect, archive, and promote art by Black and Asian artists in Britain.
Important collections of British Asian include the "South Asian Diaspora Arts Archive (SADAA)" held at Birmingham Museum, and the education group Sampad and research collective Chai Shai work to increase knowledge of British Asian art and artists.
A
Nilofar Akmut Shahidul Alam Rasheed Araeen Saleem Arif
B
Gajanan Baghwat Zarina Bhimji Sutapa Biswas Chila Kumari Singh Burman Hammad Butt
C
Suki Chan Avinash Chandra Gordon Cheung Gayle Chong Kwan
D
Shezad Dawood Poulomi Desai Mukul Dey Avtarjeet Dhanjal
E
Nina Edge
F G
Iqbal Geoffrey Amal Ghosh
H
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
I
J
K
Anish Kapoor Jasleen Kaur Permindar Kaur Balraj Khanna Matthew Krishanu
L
Kwong Lee
M
Yashwant Mali Reba Maybury Saiman Miah Haroon Mirza Prafulla Mohanti
N
O
P
Ahmed Parvez Raksha Patel Ivan Peries
R
Lancelot Ribeiro
S Anwar Jalal Shemza Gurmindar Sikand The Singh Twins F. N. Souza
T
Shanti Thomas
U
V
W
Ibrahim Wagh
Y
Osman Yousefzada
See also British Asians South Asian Diaspora Arts Archive Chinese Arts Centre
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