Waleed Zafar is a visual artist and curator currently based in Lahore, Pakistan. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, in 2017, and a Master of Arts in Art and Design at the same university in 2022. His artistic practice is based on photographic and archival research.
He has exhibited his work locally and internationally at art fairs and group shows, including A River in an Ocean, a collateral of the Lahore Biennale 01, Lahore; Surface 01 at Artbuzz Studios, Delhi; Pakistan at 100 at the World Bank Office, Islamabad; Full Circle Gallery, Karachi, in 2019; Islamabad Art Fair 2019; and India Art Fair, 2020-2023. He has taken part in numerous projects, including working as an editor for Stories We Tell, a collaborative publication by the Lahore Biennale Foundation, the Beaconhouse National University, and the Centre for Culture and Development (CKU). He also took part in an online photographic exchange supported by Grain Project UK, Transforming Narratives, London, and the British Council in Pakistan.
Waleed Zafar is currently part of the permanent faculty at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore.
