Lecture: Lali Khalid at COMO

Please join COMO as we continue our artist lectures series with photographer Lali Khalid on Friday, May 9, 2025 from 5:30–7:00pm. Khalid will be sharing work and insights that examine themes of diaspora, identity, representation, immigration, and home. This in-person event requires registration. Spaces are limited.

Lali Khalid is a visual artist living and working in Chicago. She holds a B.F.A. in printmaking from the National College of Arts in Lahore (2003) and an M.F.A. in Photography from Pratt Institute (2009) where she was a Fulbright Scholar.

Born and raised in Pakistan, Khalid immigrated to U.S. in 2011. Lali uses her work as a tool to explore themes of diaspora, identity, representation, immigration, and home in her own life and the lives of the people she photographs. Her images depict and document cultural and private conflicts, as well as emotive effects of natural light, through quiet, narrative allusions.

Khalid has exhibited her work extensively across numerous galleries in Europe, Pakistan, and the United States.

Image: An unfamiliar home, Lali Khalid