Born in 1973, Tazeen Qayyum (Canada/Pakistan) is a contemporary miniature painter who received her BFA in Visual Arts from the National College of Arts Lahore, Pakistan in 1996. Her work has been shown internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, some of which include ‘Urban Myths & Modern Fables’, University of Sydney, Australia and University of Toronto, ‘A Thousand and One Days: The Art of Pakistani Women Miniaturists’ at the Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, ‘JAALA Exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Japan, ‘Homecoming’, at the National Gallery of Pakistan and 'CodeLive Metro' at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Qayyum's  work was included in the 10th Asian Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2002), 2nd Painting Biennale, Tehran, Iran (2002) and has been featured at the Sotheby's and the Christie's South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art auctions, New York and London (2008-10). Her work has received several critical reviews including in The New York Times (2009).

The artist lives and works in Toronto, Canada.