Samina Iqbal is an artist, art historian, and an academic. She received her BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore (1997), an MFA from the University of Minnesota (2003), and a PhD in art historical studies from the Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond (2016).

Samina has taught studio arts and art history courses at various universities in Pakistan, Qatar, and the US including Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina, and Beaconhouse National University Lahore. She is currently teach as an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies, Art & Design at the Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan.

Her research interest is modern and contemporary art of South Asia. In her PhD thesis, she focused on exploring the development of modern art in Pakistan in the first decade of its establishment through an artist collective called Lahore Art Circle. She is currently working on extending her research by undertaking a comparative study of what modern art entailed for neighboring countries of Pakistan, including the MENASA region, while examining the respective, purposefully open-ended, dialectical tensions between international, national, and local stylistic concerns of the region—as a parallel dialogue to the western canon. Besides her academic engagements, she is a curator and has also worked as an independent researcher for Asia Art Archive Hong Kong currently leading the digitization project of Zahoor ul Akhlaq archives.