Rida Zahra (b. 2001, Lahore, Pakistan) is an artist and educator whose practice explores the quiet realities of objects, positioning interior spaces and everyday items as participants in forming personal and cultural memory. Drawing inspiration from the cities she has personal and familial connections to, including Lahore, London, and her ancestral village in Pakistan, Zahra stages objects within dense, carefully constructed spaces such as rooms, cupboards and thresholds.

Dramatic lighting and cumulative compositions lend items a quiet intensity, underscoring their significance as vessels of lived histories. By frequently bringing together objects from different regions, some deeply personal and others encountered in passing, Zahra draws connections across cultural and geographic borders, foregrounding the shared meanings that objects carry across contexts. Her works invite the viewer to reconsider how meaning circulates not only through people, but through and from the items and spaces that shape daily experience.

Zahra holds an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London and a BFA from Beaconhouse National University, where she is currently a visiting faculty member.

Zahra’s work has been the featured in group exhibitions including Momentum, Galleria Objets, London, UK (2025), Never Made For Us, Safehouse 2, London, UK (2025), Home and Other Strange Things, Thatstudio, Lahore, Pakistan (2024) and Resonances: Memory, Land and Transformation, Hockney Gallery, London, UK (2024). Her upcoming online solo project with Taymour Grahne Projects, The Quiet Lives Of Things, will launch in February 2026.