Hiba Schahbaz (b. Karachi, Pakistan) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She trained in traditional Indo-Persian miniature painting at the National College of Arts, Lahore and received her MFA from Pratt Institute, New York. Since migrating to the United States, Schahbaz has challenged the rigorous rules of miniature painting to embrace a female perspective, while also creating space and representation for identities often left out of Western art. Her practice has expanded from miniature to human-scale paintings that depict female bodies while referencing self-portraiture.

Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum (2024), FLAG Art Foundation New York, (2023), Santa Monica Art Museum (2023), ICA Miami (2022), and the Northern Illinois University Art Museum (2018), among others. Her solo exhibitions include Summer of Dragons, Almine Rech London (2024) and Love Songs, Almine Rech Paris (2023). In 2021, she presented a public art commission at Rockefeller Centre with Art Production Fund.

Schahbaz has been written about in Whitewall, Artforum, NY Mag, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Coveteur, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Art Critical amongst other publications. She has been an artist resident at the Tang Museum, Mass MoCA, Stoneleaf Retreat, Wassaic Project, and the Vermont Studio Center. She currently serves as a board member for the Art Production Fund.