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painting on friends and myself
costumes made out of bedsheets
masks made out of paper

strange performances for photography and film

Christoph's Back Upshot, ballpoint pen drawing on friend by Zehra Khan. #worddrawing #bodyart #drawing #zehrakhan Zehra Khan is a multi-disciplinary artist who likes to make things by hand. She works in drawing, sculpture, installations, costumes, and pe
Christoph's Back Upshot
ballpoint pen on friend
Allston, MA
2005
Mixed-media installation and performance of a nude woman with drawn rats on her who are smoking, drinking and vomiting. Odalisque, reclining, bedroom, bed, nude, rats, belloc, photography, drawing, painting, installation, painting on people, www.zehrakhan
Rats Smoking Drinking Vomiting - Odalisque
acrylic on friend
Cambridge, MA
2008
Zehra Khan is a multi-disciplinary artist who likes to make things by hand. When she's not drawing, she may be making sculpture, installations, performances, costumes, photography or films. #bodypainting #drawing #bodyart #zehrakhan #tub #www.zehrakhan.c
Gold Rat Vomits
acrylic on self
Paris, France
2009
Lapin Laundrette
Lapin Laundrette
filmed performance, in collaboration with Ivy Guild, Johnson, VT
3 min
2018
Mixed media installation and performance by Zehra Khan, created at an art residency at the Post-Contemporary, Troy, NY. #installation #rat #zehrakhan #cigarette #bottle, #bikini #pinup #messageinabottle #costume #mask #performance #bodypainting
Last Cigarette
performance installation: acrylic on canvas, paper and self
6 x 10 x 3'
2010
Sweetheart of All My Dreams
Sweetheart of All My Dreams
installation and filmed performance, in collaboration with Tim Winn
4 min 12 sec
2010
The Pawn Shop - Fox Proprietors, mixed media installation and performance, Zehra Khan & Tim Winn. #Zehra Khan #Tim Winn #installation #performance #costume #photograph #animal #beast #bodypainting #art #piano #playing #rat #mask #painting #drawing #film Z
The Pawn Shop - Fox Proprietors
installation and filmed performance, in collaboration with Tim Winn
15 x 30 x 30’
2011
Johnny Flea and His Merry Maniacs Present the CIRCUS
Johnny Flea and His Merry Maniacs Present the CIRCUS
installation and filmed performance, in collaboration with Tim Winn
10 x 16 x 8’
2012
Johnny Flea and His Merry Maniacs Present the Circus, mixed-media installation,Zehra Khan is a multi-disciplinary artist who likes to make things by hand. She works in drawing, sculpture, installations, costumes, and performances for photography or film.
The Amazing Margarita
installation and filmed performance, in collaboration with Tim Winn
10 x 16 x 8’
2012
Rabbit Rites of Spring Google Maps Project
Rabbit Rites of Spring Google Maps Project
Google Maps project, in collaboration with Elena Kendall-Aranda
2018
Mixed-media installation by Zehra Khan. #Zehra Khan #performance #costume #photograph #animal #lamb #art #stag #mask #painting #installation #rat #party
Reject Rat
acrylic on paper and friend, Provincetown, MA
6 x 9 x 8'
2009
The Weasel Problem
The Weasel Problem
filmed performance, in collaboration with Tim Winn Provincetown, MA
17 min
2011
Hello Stranger
Hello Stranger
installation and filmed performance, in collaboration with Tim Winn
2013
A Sunny Day for Flowers is an illustrated children’s book is about flowers and their funny and often furry friends by Zehra Khan and Tim Winn. A Sunny Day for Flowers, Zehra Khan and Tim Winn, Soberscove Press; Chicago, IL, 2014.
A Sunny Day for Flowers
16-page children's book, in collaboration with Tim Winn
6 x 6"
2014
Stag and Lamb
Stag and Lamb
filmed performance, in collaboration with Tim Winn New Galloway, Scotland
5 min
2012
Flowers painted in henna on a friend's back. Created in Paris, France. Zehra Khan is an artist who likes to make things by hand, whether it is drawing, sculpture, or films of herself and her friends costumed and painted on. www.zehrakhan.com
Flowers
henna on friend
Paris, France
2009
drawing on leg, by Zehra Khan. Karachi, Pakistan. Zehra Khan is a multi-disciplinary artist who likes to make things by hand. She works in drawing, sculpture, installations, costumes, and performances for photography or film. She received her MFA from the
Sandals
ink on family
Karachi, Pakistan
2006
drawing on leg and back, Zehra Khan. #bodypainting #drawing #bodyart Zehra Khan is an artist who likes to make things by hand, whether it is drawing, sculpture, or films of herself and her friends costumed and painted on. www.zehrakhan.com
Panther Beats Tiger
acrylic on friend and self
Paris, France
2009
Rat Leaps Out of Flowers, Zehra Khan, inkjet print, edition of 15, 27 x 20", 2009. A rat painted on the artist leg leaps out of painted flowers. Zehra Khan is an artist who likes to make things by hand, whether it is drawing, sculpture, or films of herse
Rat Leaps Out of Flowers
acrylic on paper and self, Paris, France
2009
With - Move - Without
With - Move - Without
acrylic on friend and self
2009
Khan painting on a friend at a performance for 'Beastly Habits', Flatbread Affair Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2010. Zehra Khan is a multi-disciplinary artist who likes to make things by hand. She works in drawing, sculpture, installations, costumes, and perfor
Painting on a friend
image from performance
2010
%Hairy Monsters% is a series of work where I transform poolside ladies into hairy beasts. #Zehra Khan #performance #costume #photograph #beast #art Zehra Khan is an artist who likes to make things by hand, whether it is drawing, sculpture, or films of her
Hairy Monster Fingers
acrylic on friend
Culebra, Puerto Rico
2011
Hairy Monsters is a series of work where I transform poolside ladies into hairy beasts. #Zehra Khan #performance #beast #painting #bikini #ladies Zehra Khan is an artist who likes to make things by hand, whether it is drawing, sculpture, or films of herse
Hairy Monster with Hose
acrylic on friend
Culebra, Puerto Rico
2011
Body on the Rocks, Seonjaedo, South Korea. Seonjaedo, South Korea. Performance art, South Korea, by Zehra Khan.
Becoming Rocks
Seonjaedo, South Korea
acrylic on self
2018
Becoming Rock
Becoming Rock
Seonjaedo, South Korea
performance, acrylic on self
2018
Sleeping in Flowers
Sleeping in Flowers
drawing in the sand
Seonjaedo, South Korea
2018
Light Pilgrim
Light Pilgrim
filmed performance
1 min 19 sec
2016
Seonjaedo, South Korea. Performance art, South Korea, by Zehra Khan.
Tied to the World
Seonjaedo, South Korea
performance
2018
Fat Rat Smoking Drinking Eating
Fat Rat Smoking Drinking Eating
filmed performance Provincetown, MA
2 min
2009
Fat Rat Takes Up Jogging on a Hill
Fat Rat Takes Up Jogging on a Hill
filmed performance Troy, NY
1 min 45 sec
2010
The Right Whale was exhibited at the Provincetown Town Hall - 10 Days of Art festival in Provincetown, MA. Sep 2013. The Right Whale is a double-sided drawing 60 feet long and 18 feet tall, the size typical of the adult North Atlantic Right whales that
The Right Whale
life-size whale drawing: ink on paper, double-sided, in collaboration with Tim Winn
18 x 60 x 3'
2013
Sacred Blue Cat is a sculpture by Zehra Khan, acrylic on paper mache. #zehrakhan #silly #cat #sacredcat #dashes #kitty #fake #sculpture #papermache #artwork #zehra #provincetown
Sacred Blue Cat
sculpture: acrylic on paper mache
16 x 6 x 9"
2014
Blue Typewriter: a paper sculpture by Zehra Khan, 5 x 9 x 9 1/3", acrylic on paper, 2013.
Blue Typewriter
sculpture: acrylic paint on recycled paper
5 x 9 x 9 1/3"
2013
Cardboard telephone sculpture by Zehra Khan #cardboard #telephone #landline #fake #sculpture
Phone Calls
acrylic on cardboard and cloth
8 x 16 x 7"
2014
Stone, Zehra Khan, acrylic on paper macher, 2 x 3 x 3", 2016. #stone #sculpture #dumb #funny #stupid #lump #rock #papermache #fake
Stone
acrylic on paper mache
2 x 3 x 3"
2016

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