Ambreen Butt (born 1969) is a Boston based Pakistani American artist. Trained in miniature painting at the National College of Arts Lahore, Butt has lived and worked in the United States since the mid-1990s. Her work stems from the traditions of Persian and Indian miniature painting with a western modernist abstraction and engagement with contemporary themes. Butt’s paintings are rooted in her bi-cultural identity and retain the intricate, decorative patterning that characterizes Persian and Indian miniature painting. She has updated the medium’s painstaking technique with new materials, such as PET film, thread and collage. Her work discards the traditionally patronizing representation of women in the genre of miniature painting and re-defines the female identity through the gaze of a female artist. The protagonists in her work are modern day heroines celebrated for their courage in face of horrendous conditions. (Wikipedia)