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SYED HUSSAIN (b. 1987, Quetta) is a Lahore-based painter and mixed-media artist who reimagines Indo-Persian miniature technique through themes of memory, identity and displacement. A graduate of the National College of Arts, Lahore (BFA, 2015) with honours in Miniature Painting, Hussain received the Haji Sharif Award for Miniature Painting in 2019.

Central to Hussain's work is the identity and socio- political displacement of Hazara communities in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Drawing on family photographs, oral histories and field research, he creates compact tableaux in which figures, domestic objects and landscape fragments accumulate like pages from a recovered album. His precise draughtsmanship renders hair, textiles and worn objects in minute detail, affirming the dignity and visibility of  communities often marginalized in broader cultural narratives.