Khadim Ali

Khadim Ali (Urdu: خادم علی, born in Queta, Pakistan, 1978) is an Australian painter of Hazara descent.

Early life and education Khadim Ali was born in 1978 in the Pakistani city of Quetta to a family of refugees from Bamiyan Province in Afghanistan, who belonged to the Hazara ethnic minority. He grew up in Pakistan close to the Afghanistan border.As a child he was exposed to the beauty of Ferdowsi's Persian epic 10th-century poetic work Shahnameh (Book of Kings), which his grandfather sung, and the miniature paintings that illustrated it.

He studied Mughal miniature painting at the National College of Arts in Lahore, and calligraphy at Tehran University in Iran.

In November 2023 participated in a major group exhibition Voice Against Reason Museum MACAN along with others 23 artists from Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Work by Ali is in the collection of:

Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of Western Australia Guggenheim Museum Sharjah Art Foundation