Trained as both an artist and an architect, Seher Shah is a Pakistani based in New York. Her initial professional experience took place in an architectural tirm that specialized in skyscmpers and large-scale urban projects. Hence, it comes as no surprise that the exploration of architectural space is a constant in her work, which often combines archival imagery and contemporary hand-drawn
and digital elements. In fact, the word deconstruction often appears in reviews of her works. As artist and gallerist Peter Nagy
wrote in the catalogue for her 'Jihad Pop' exhibition in 2008: "'Within Shah's constructed universe, human history shares many
attributes with science fiction, where the transformational possibilities of quantum physics are fully visible and known.
Mapping the disintegration of forms into particles and energy, Shah allows fire to become water, and stone to become smoke."