Tania Qurashi (b. 1993, New Jersey) is a Philadelphia-based artist whose work explores cultural and racial melancholy through symbolic objects, vessels, and figurative and floral motifs. Working primarily in painting and drawing, she engages with imagery tied to her Pakistani and Guatemalan heritage, using still life compositions to examine personal and collective histories.
Qurashi received an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Qurashi has exhibited her work in group exhibitions including the Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia, PA), Long Beach Island Foundation (Loveladies, NJ), Amos Eno Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Fjord (Philadelphia, PA), and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts Museum (Philadelphia, PA), and TROVE [flat file] by Deanna Evans Projects (New York, NY). She has attended residencies including the Vermont Studio Center and Jentel Artist Residency. She is a recipient of the Brodsky Center of PAFA James V. Nixon Jr. Award and her work has been published in New American Paintings. Tania Qurashi received a 2026 Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.