Rashid Rana is a contemporary Pakistani artist known for his innovative and thought-provoking work. 

Rana is recognized for his ability to merge traditional artistic techniques with contemporary concepts, often exploring themes related to identity, global culture, and socio-political issues.

Rashid Rana's early works include paintings that incorporated traditional miniature painting techniques, but he gained widespread recognition for his experiments with digital media and photography. One of his notable techniques involves creating large-scale images by assembling thousands of smaller photographs, creating intricate and detailed mosaics.

Rashid Rana has created several photographic montages portraying Bollywood actors including Shah Rukh Khan, idolized in India as the paragon of masculinity and sexuality. This series of works, however, is not about the star. Leaving visible cracks in his assembled images, Rana forces a shift in perspective from the macro to the micro, the global to the local. Titled 'Ommatidia', the collective term for the bio-structural components that hold together the multiple lenses of a fly’s compound eye, these works shift the viewer’s focus from the stars to the structures that support their heroic images. This portrait is composed of several thousand smaller images of ordinary Pakistani men, whose shared aspirations Rana believes uphold the entire industry. “Tiny documentary photographs taken in the chaotic streets of Lahore provide a wider picture of celebrity as figment; a mass media construct sustained by the projected, collective dreams and aspirations of ordinary Pakistani society as it jostles politically and culturally with neighboring India” (Ulanda Blair, Flash, Center for Contemporary Photography, March-June 2007, p. 9).