Marium M. Habib (b.1993, Karachi) is a London-based painter whose work explores themes of gender, orientalism, and their attendant power structures through a uniquely subversive lens. Working primarily in figurative painting with elements of abstraction, Marium creates painted worlds replete with smoking monkeys, suggestive bananas, tropical birds and gestural figures. Humour, subversion and reflection exist in these works in equal measure.

Set against lush backdrops redolent of sensory memories of her childhood in Karachi, Marium’s paintings throng with vibrant colours and dynamic brushstrokes. Through her distinctive visual language, Habib's raucous compositions seek to destabilise conventional orientalist tropes. 

Marium’s work has been shown in London, Karachi, Lahore, and Barcelona and has recently completed an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art. Marium’s Salon catalogue can be viewed here.