Amin Taasha

During the Taliban, Amin Taasha (b. 1995, Bamyan, Afghanistan) came to Kabul and continued his study. He started painting in 2007 at the painting department of Marefat High School. And in 2010, he continued his study in painting at Kabul Fine Arts Institute.

He first exhibited his paintings in 2008 and has been participated in many exhibitions by far. He spent three years of painting in realism style and copying from nature. Finally in 2009, he partook in contemporary arts workshops leaded by the renowned international artist, Khadim Ali and through studying in art school, he began creating and mostly working with contemporary style that combined both abstraction and miniature approaches.