Asma Kazmi is an artist whose large-scale installations move between physical, digital, and speculative spaces. Working across sculpture, moving image, and virtual and augmented reality, she juxtaposes materially grounded forms with digitally rendered “twins” of art historical objects and contested geographies. Her practice examines the entanglements of Western colonialism, diasporic Muslim identities, and ecological extraction. Born in Quetta, Pakistan, near the Afghan border, she works transnationally across the United States, South and Central Asia, the Middle East, China, and Europe.

Kazmi’s recent exhibitions include the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Switzerland; Gray Area, San Francisco; the Goethe-Institut, San Francisco; the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; the Museum of Écija, Spain; the Galerie Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France; and the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China. She is the recipient of a Helman Foundation Grant, a Fulbright Research Award (CIES) to India, and the Great Rivers Biennial Award from the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, among numerous others.