2025 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Lali Khalid

Friday, March 07, 2025 @ 3:30pm, Tuscany 12

Motherhood and Artistic Practice

Lali Khalid is a visual artist living and working in Chicago. She holds a B.F.A. in printmaking from the National College of Arts in Lahore (2003) and an M.F.A. in Photography from Pratt Institute (2009) where she was a Fulbright Scholar. Born and raised in Pakistan, Khalid immigrated to U.S. in 2011. Lali uses her work as a tool to explore themes of diaspora, identity, family, immigration, and home in her own life and the lives of the people she photographs. Her images depict and document cultural and private conflicts, as well as emotive effects of natural light, through quiet, narrative allusions. She has shown her work in many galleries throughout Europe, Pakistan, and the US.