Hi! I am Nageen. I am a developmental and line editor and a writing consultant. I support individuals, arts, and culture organizations by shaping, improving, and fine-tuning their publications, catalogs, educational papers, stories, blogs, and other formats. To see how I can help you with writing and editing projects, please click here.

I am an art historian, critic, and industrial designer by training. I have previously worked with the Guggenheim Museum, British Council, Paul W. Zuccaire art gallery, Gulgee Museum, Karachi Biennale Trust, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, and Institute of Business Administration.

One of my most popular publications include “Inside The Wondrous Studios of Three Pakistani Artists,” published in Hyperallergic. The profound experience of encountering South Asian masterworks shaped another of my favorite writings about transnational art spectacles, “The Rewards and Pitfalls of Survey Exhibitions,” written for The Karachi Collective. More of my critical and research-based writing can be found here.

My research queries notions of materiality, spatiality, and networks that affect artworks as they emerge before, during, and after the layered processes of artmaking within artists studios, workshops, economies, and histories. In my recently published essay, “The Networked Gulgee,” The Gulgee Museum Handbook, edited by John McCarry, (Lightstone Publishers: 2025), I consider Pakistani modern artist Ismail Gulgee’s art practice under the framework of Actor-network theory, revealing how mediators and quasi-objects formed relational ties in the artist’s global and local material and social networks.

I love teaching. I developed and taught courses and readings in Japanese art history and fashion design, South Asian illuminated manuscripts, and modern and contemporary art by South Asian artists for undergraduate institutions. Check out my most recent review published by Hyperallergic for Alicia Volk’s fantastic new book entitled In The Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan.

I am a devoted lover of nature, athletics, languages, and books. I particularly gravitate toward sci-fi, mystery, thriller, horror, and fantasy. Some of my favorite novels include the Ryhope Wood series by Robert Holdstock, Dan Simmon’s The Hyperion Cantos, works by Siri Hustvedt, Lydia Davis, Fritz Leiber, Olga Tokarczuk, and Eleanor Catton. My review for R. F. Kuang’s fabulous novel Babel: A Necessity of Violence was published by Dawn News. I passionately read across genres including works by Gaston Bachelard, Niilofur Farrukh, Pamela H. Smith, Sonal Khullar, and Robert Macfarlane. I recommend these books and authors to all avid readers.

I also conduct online writing sessions. You can find workshop schedules (and testimonials) and the books I am reading at present on my Instagram @pressedpulpandink.

I have an MA in Art History and Criticism from The State University of New York at Stony Brook where I was a Fulbright Scholar. I received my BD in Industrial Design from the University of Karachi. I was also a recipient of the Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation Scholarship to study Entrepreneurship and Economic Enterprise at The National University of Singapore.

Here’s how to pronounce my name: Na (as in nut) g (as in gray) een (as in eel)