Asma Kazmi

Co-Principal Investigator at UC Berkeley

Asma Kazmi is an artist whose large-scale installations move between physical, digital, and speculative spaces. Working across sculpture, moving image, and virtual and augmented reality, she juxtaposes materially grounded forms with digitally rendered “twins” of art historical objects and contested geographies. Her practice examines the entanglements of Western colonialism, diasporic Muslim identities, and ecological extraction. Born in Quetta, Pakistan, near the Afghan border, she works transnationally across the United States, South and Central Asia, the Middle East, China, and Europe.

For UC CAAN, Kazmi serves as Co-Principal Investigator at UC Berkeley, collaborating on workshops, exhibitions, publications, and support for student and faculty research in art and climate action.