Tazeen Qayyum

Tazeen Qayyum is a Pakistani-born Canadian conceptual artist working in a variety of media including miniature painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, and video.

[6] Qayyum's more recent circular text pieces are performative based and originate from her work with installations of the repeated forms of cockroaches.

Recurring singular phrases written in the Urdu (the artist's mother tongue) are drawn from the centre of the paper or canvas, concentrically moving out.

Qayyum's drawing based performances include Unvoiced held at the 1st Karachi Biennale, Pakistan in 2017,[16] and 'We do not know who we are where we go’, which was part of the Mixer Project at The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto (2016).

[17] She has also directed performance work including Double Date in 2007 produced by SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Collective) at Lennox Contemporary Gallery, Toronto and AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, and A Feast in Exile held in 2009 and produced by VASL Artist's Collective.