Ashfika Rahman

Ashfika Rahman is a visual artist and educator whose practice centers on photography and mixed media installations. 

Her work creates alternative visual archives that draw attention to marginalized and overlooked communities in Bangladesh. By combining photography with text, drawing, printmaking, textiles, sound, and video, she recontextualizes documentary practices to explore themes of communal displacement, state violence, cultural colonization, and social injustice.

Ashfika Rahman’s projects are grounded in long-term research and field engagement, and often extend beyond the gallery into social initiatives. Notably, she founded an alternative boat school for children in the wetland region of northeastern Bangladesh, offering a reimagined model of art education in rural contexts.

Her work has been exhibited in prominent international festivals, biennales, triennials, art fairs, museums, and galleries, and has been featured in leading international publications.

Ashfika is a faculty member at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute in Dhaka and was previously affiliated with MAPS Images. She is currently in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in the Netherlands (2024–2026) and is the recipient of the 2024 Future Generation Art Prize, awarded by the PinchukArtCentre.


World Press Photo Involvement:
2018 Joop Swart Masterclass Participant

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Instagram: @ashfikarahman47
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