Wajid Khan is a well-known portraitist, sculptor, inventor, and patent holder who was born in Mandsaur, MP. He has a unique talent to create art out of nails, and his finished canvases said volumes. Not only is he known for his nail art, but he is also known for his stone art, bullet art, medical art, iron art, kinetic art, and many more mediums.

He’s had a creative mind since he was a boy; at the age of 14, he created the world’s tiniest electric iron, and he manufactured home appliances out of small discarded iron components that he collected from various places. Some of the ideas he made as a child include water theft devices, 3D printing, robotics, light sensors, and tea locking. 

Wajid Khan has been tasked with creating a one-of-a-kind sculpture for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which will be held in Qatar. One of his paintings can be found in Rashtrapati Bhavan, the President of India’s official residence.

 

His nail has made him famous all over the world; he hammered iron nails on a blank canvas to create 3D pictures of Mahatma Gandhi, Dhirubhai Ambani, Mother Mary, and Jesus, among others. He created an amazing world record of “The largest nail sculpture” consisting of 14,992 nails, in Madhya Pradesh, as well as he created a record in making the “Largest nail mosaic” 

More than 1,50,000 nails are used in the majority of his works of art. His artworks were so well-known that former President APJ Abdul Kalam honored him three times.  He has received numerous accolades and continues to do so. He has received numerous awards from various organizations and has also been named a lifetime member of the Sir Syed Minority Foundation of India. 

His most recent work is kinetic artwork, which is a unique form of art in and of itself. Using iron parts and physics, he has created an unusual work that continues to move with the help of wind, and when those parts move, a peaceful tone is produced.