Fiza Khatri Beside the Flowers (after Degas) Year 2024 Medium Graphite on paper Dimensions 21.1 x 29.7 About the work This portrait of a figure seated beside a vase of flowers references the 1865 Degas painting ‘A Woman Seated Beside a Vase of Flowers’ and the motif of the pensive figure which recurs in post-impressionist and modern painting. Date and country of birth 1992, PK Career Highlights Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting & Sculpture, Dedalus Foundation, New York, USA (2023) ‘Unfurled,’ Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA (2023) ‘a signal urgent but breaking,’ Perrotin Gallery, New York, USA (2023) ‘Close,’ GRIMM, London, UK (2023) ‘Great Women Painters,’ Phaidon Press ( 2022) ‘Don’t Pretend You Can’t Hear,’ The Clemente, New York, USA (2022) ‘kal,’ Twelve Gates Arts, Pilladelphia, USA (2022) ‘Humor Has It,’ Olympia Gallery, New York, USA (2022) ‘Sailoon and Other Stories,’ Jhaveri Contemporary, online viewing room (2021) ‘River in an Ocean,’ The Research and Publication Center, Lahore, Pakistan (2019)