Hanif Shahzad

Pakistan President's Medal of Excellence

( Tamgha-e-Imtiaz )

Hanif Shahzad is a Civil Engineer, who took his art training from the Karachi School of Art where he was a prize winner, always looking for means of expression. Initially he worked with collage to create texture in the beautiful watercolour artworks he created. He went on to work with oils and enjoyed using mixed media to create the effects he visualised in the finished artworks. Shahzad's favourite subject is the city he knows and loves so well. Merging his training and abilities as an artist and a civil engineer. Shahzad's admiration for the city is matchless. He dwells on the old architectural magnificence of Taj Mehal that he paints standing with dignity against a backdrop of luminous clouds, and  he portrays the various stages of the Mohatta Palac; works of art that are museum pieces.

Featured in his work are the landscapes, streets, Empress Market, Memon Masjid, D.J. Science Collage, and Port Grand with the bustling shoppers and the various aspects of light and shadows of a passing day.

The artist's first exhibition was held in Karachi in 1989, and he went on to show his work in prestigious exhibitions in many countries of the world.