Muhammad Salman Khan is a visual artist from South Waziristan, a remote district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He graduated with a bachelors of Fine Arts from The National College of Arts, Lahore, in 2017 with a distinction in miniature painting. He has exhibited his work across Pakistan, including ‘Drone Vision’, a collaboration between Valand Academy and Hasselblad Foundation in Sweden, led by Sarah Tuck in 2018.

Salman has always had an acute awareness of his own artistic expression through gestural drawings and paintings, despite growing up in a village which lacked exposure to certain methods and movements that are key components of his work, such as abstract expressionism. During the early stages of his artistic practice, he began learning the art of calligraphy and dabbled in sign board paintings in his village. 

His work is a fusion of the unique techniques of Persian miniature paintings and the spontaneous gestural approach of abstract expressionism. He describes the process of his paintings as finding balance between emotive gestural strokes and the delicate, detail oriented process of traditional miniature paintings.