Zaam Arif is an American-Pakistani contemporary artist residing and working in Houston, Texas.
Zaam is currently pursuing his BFA in Design but has been taught and been an apprentice of his artist father, for several years. Zaam’s work has been published across many platforms, most recent being “Gulf Stream Magazine” in Miami, Florida and “The Gasher Journal” in Boulder, Colorado.
Zaam Arif explores existentialist experiences of the layman, the experiences that we tend to hide. He confronts it with a penetrating interpretation of human nature,
transforming it into a visceral reality. His work is a manifestation of his understanding of the contemporary human condition along with insights garnered from his study of classical literature and psychology.
He is adamant in exploring the harsher truths and inner conflicts that plague us all, in
this day and age, using visual contrast in all his pieces, whether through color, lack
thereof or the medium itself, to express it.
