Ayessha Quraishi (b. 1970, Karachi, Pakistan) is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting and time-based media. Initially mentored by Nayyar Jamil, she developed a meditative process of layering and erasure, mapping interwoven states of consciousness where memory and presence converge.

Over nearly four decades, Quraishi has cultivated a distinctive visual language grounded in material tactility and metaphysical inquiry. Her work has been widely exhibited in Pakistan and internationally, including the Istanbul and Karachi Biennales, and MANZAR: Art and Architecture from Pakistan 1940s to Today (2024) at the National Museum of Qatar. In 2025, her documentary NAYYAR: An Art Story was presented at the Ekim Gecidi Istanbul Bienal. She is currently included in TRACES: Drawing Practices Now at COMO Museum, Lahore.

A finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize (2022), Quraishi is the recipient of the ADA Award (2021), the British Council PKUK New Perspectives grant (2022), and a Patakha Pictures grant (2023). Her mid-career retrospective Between Light (2020), accompanied by a 350-page monograph, marked a pivotal moment in her evolving practice. Her work is held in major public and private collections.