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Portrait of Ayesha Saeed

Honor Society® member

Ayesha Saeed

  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Arts, Photography, Neuroscience, Coding & Mathematics
  • Class of 2016
  • Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Member since July 2014

Education

  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago

    Photography

    2012 – 2013

  • National College of Arts

    Communication Design

    2006 – 2010

Honors and awards

  • Nominated for the The Sovereign Asian Art Prize from Pakistan

    The Sovereign Art Foundation, Hong Kong.

  • Recipient of the Fred J. Forster Fellowship Award

    School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • Launch Invitational Residency Program

    Chicago Artist Coalition , Chicago, USA.

  • Merit Scholarship ( BFA) – SAIC 2012

    School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • Merit Scholarship ( BFA) – SAIC 2013

    School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • Distinction Award - Thesis (Bachelor of Design)

    National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan

Goals and interests

Graduate school interests

Neuroscience, mathematics, deductive reasoning, geometrical patterns, Dutch Modernism, forms, spaces, order, language, identity, communication, technological dependency, decisions, way of looking, perceiving the rhythm of the quite repetitive patterns of our daily lives.

Outside the classroom

Backpacking, Reading, Coding, Photography and learning different regions of Sign Language.

Languages

  • English (US) Advanced
  • Urdu Advanced
  • Punjabi Intermediate