Asad Kamran is a multi-disciplinary artist from Karachi, Pakistan. He uses his evolving body of work to express and dissect the confusions, contradictions and poetics of a changing world. He has used the portrait as a tool for dialogue between the self and his surroundings. Influenced by his academic background in Architecture and Urban design, he now includes narrative scene and world building, as a socio-political tool in his paintings. Through this he expresses his hidden secret whilst confronting the secrets that articulate our collective world.

He has various solo and group shows to his credit. Having exhibited his work across Karachi, Lahore, Istanbul, Edinburgh & Montreal. He is also the founder of a community cinema in Karachi, Pakistan by the name of Cinema 73.

Currently he is busy creating multi-sensorial narrative painting-scapes at a residency in Montreal supported by Eastern Bloc, Cyber Love Hotel and Fonderie Darling.