Ambreen Butt is a Pakistani-American artist based in Dallas, TX. Much of her work contains autobiographical elements through her use of self portraiture and themes that refer both to her childhood in Pakistan as well as her relationship to her home country as an American citizen.

She was trained in Indian miniature painting in Lahore, lending her work its highly detailed and decorative aspects. Through this visual language, she explores the juxtaposition of beauty and violence, vulnerability and power, difficulty and ease. While the decorative elements form a beautiful whole, they are composed of symbols relating to fear and violence, evoking not only the artist’s personal experience, but all that is human.

The artist has exhibited widely and her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Library of Congress, Minneapolis Insitute of Art, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Worcester Art Museum, Hood Museum, and DeCordova Sculpture Park. She received her training in Indian and Persian Miniature Painting from the National College of Arts in Lahore and received her MFA from MassArt, Boston.