Zara Mahmood is a Dubai-based artist who is currently working as an Adjunct Professor in Visual Communication at the American University in Dubai and at Zayed University. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the National College of Arts (NCA) in Lahore, and after acquiring her undergraduate degree, pursued a Master’s program in Fine Art at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in the UK with a focus on Painting. Her work has been shown in both solo and group exhibitions in Beirut, Dubai, Karachi, Lahore, Madrid and Philadelphia, and she has participated in Art Dubai’s Campus 5.0. She is also a member of Dubai- based alternative rock/electronica band ‘Sail Into Night’.