Veera Rustomji

Veera Rustomji is a multidisciplinary artist from Karachi. Her practice focuses on uncovering historiographical power structures through materials that explore geographical influences, religious iconography, and archival methods. She holds a BFA from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (IVS) and an MA from Chelsea College of Arts at the University of the Arts London (UAL), where she was awarded the UAL Postgraduate International Scholarship. Veera is the recipient of the 2021–2022 Mead Fellowship, during which she produced a body of documentation capturing the erasure of island life and coastal heritage within the Indus Delta. Her site-specific investigations coexist with literary and community-based archives from public and private collections that examine the Zoroastrian diaspora. Veera is also the co-director of the Urban Repository Archive (URA), housed within the Department of Fine Art at IVS, which explores how student-led research responds to the changing landscape of Karachi.