Hussain Salahuddin 
New York - Pakistan

A graduate of the esteemed Parsons The New School for Design in New York, Hussain has had his work displayed at multiple art shows in Manhattan - most notably at Parsons’ Gallery in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Across a wide variety of different media and a combination of styles including street, pop, conceptual and appropriation art. His controversial art work explores contemporary desires and obsessions with social norms, the influence of media on the general public, commerce, and fame disguised under childlike expressionism.

Deploying controversial, satirical messages, Hussain’s vibrantly colorful art exposes society’s ability to be driven by the epherma of sensationalism and examines the commercial promise of fulfillment and happiness that is never fully achieved.

Meant to have an instant impact on its audience, Hussain employs sarcasm to tackle and provoke society’s value system. Aiming to avoid the conventional, stereotypical standards of “good taste” in art, his ideas are more in line with contemporary commerce and marketing methods than traditional artisan methods.

His work has propelled with unusual zeal amid collectors and the public respectively.
Hussain lives and works in New York, and released his first collection in Pakistan in 2018.

He has been published in MoMA’s Design & Violence Book, The New York Times, T-style magazine, The Wild Magazine, amongst others. 

Hussain also explores digital collages on his Instagram page: @pardonmypixels