CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART GRADUATE DREGREE EXHIBITION 2025  
GRADUATES \\ WORK \\ ABOUT \\
SEHRISH
HUSSAIN
DEPARTMENT
PRINT MEDIA





Sehrish Hussain's artistic practice is deeply rooted in her upbringing as a Pakistani-American born and raised in Metro Detroit. Immersed in a rich tapestry of cultural motifs—from Indo-Persian textiles to the distinct aesthetics of “American-made” cars—Hussain’s work blends traditional printmaking techniques with contemporary digital technologies to explore themes of belonging, tradition, and hybrid identities.

Hussain’s proclivity for pattern, materiality, and postpainterly abstraction serves as the driving force behind her practice. Through abstraction and illegibility, her work defamiliarizes cultural symbols, highlighting the power objects hold as carriers of cultural meaning and memory.

During her time at Cranbrook, Hussain has created a body of work that serves as both a personal archive and a cultural investigation. She navigates the space between tradition and modernity, where adaptation, transformation, and negotiation shape the ongoing dialogue between the past and present.




Inherited Mechanics
triptych 2 of 3, 2024, Reactive dye on cotton, charcoal, 8" x 7"
Made in America  
2024, Reactive dye silk screen on recycled cotton-blend drop cloth (made in Pakistan, bought at Menards in Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA), charcoal, 4 x 6 feet each
Self portrait series
2023, Set of 4 laser-cut woodcuts, collagraphs and textiles, 22" x 30"
Interface
2024, Screen-print on red rosin paper, collagraph on brown builder’s paper, 2' x 2'