Career
She was of Pakistani descent and lived in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her art invokes a dialogue between the modern-abstract and traditional forms and practices of Islamic paintings. Her work taps on visual images once a part of daily life but now a part of history—from places as geographically disparate as South Asia and North Africa.
She painted mainly on canvas and wood, applying an infinite number of painted pixels and organic shapes that evoke mosaic tiling, intricate carvings, and ornate metalwork.
Her work has been exhibited in art museums and galleries in Pakistan and the United States, as well as Britain, Japan, Jordan, and Switzerland. Her paintings are part of the permanent collections at the Asian Collection at Bradford Museum, United Kingdom, National Council of the Arts, Pakistan, and the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Jordan.
The Karachi School of Arts dedicated an Art Gallery to her name. The Lubna Agha Art Gallery was inaugurated with a showing of her work and a memorial lecture in March, 2016.
A book about the artist by Marcella Nessom Sirhandi entitled Lubna Agha: Points of Reference was published by The Foundation of Museum of Modern Art, Pakistan in 2007.
Agha died of complications from gallbladder cancer at her home in Brookline, Master of Arts on May 6, 2012. 2016 Inaugural Exhibition: Lubna Agha Art Gallery, Karachi School of Arts, Karachi, Pakistan
2016 "A Path All My Own" - Retrospective Exhibition: VM Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2012 Points of Reference: Paintings Cite Islamic Visual Legacy: Gardiner Art Gallery, Stillwater, Oklahoma
2007 International Visions Gallery, Washington District of Columbia
2001 Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
1996 Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
1991 Himovitz Solomon Gallery, Sacramento, California
1987 Indus Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
1985 Djurovich Gallery, Sacramento, California
1983 Rara Avis, Sacramento, California
1981 Alta Galleries, Sacramento, California
1981 Stuart/Scott Gallery, Fair Oaks, California
1980 Indus Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
1976 Contemporary Art Gallery, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
1975 Pakistan Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
1973 Indus Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
1972 Contemporary Art Gallery, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
1971 Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan
1969 Pakistan American Cultural Centre, Karachi, Pakistan.