Born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1973, she lived in Germany and India as a refugee before going to U.S. Her work fuses the formalist traditions she was trained in the US with the numerous aesthetic traditions - Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, pagan and nomadic - that collectively influenced Afghan art and culture. She has produced work in many media including video, film, photography, installation and live performance. Her most recent work has been featured at the Venice Biennale 2005, Kunsthalle Vienna, Museum of Modern Art Arnhem Netherlands and Miami Cantral, CAC Centre d'art contemporain de Brétigny and Frac Lorraine Metz, France. She has also exhibited in festivals in Mexico, Spain, Germany, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. She was also a featured artist at the Central Asian Biennial 2004. Recently she was in Kabul, Afghanistan working on projects exploring the relationship between architecture and identity in post-war Afghanistan.