SHIRAZ FAZLI
b. 1997, Brooklyn, NY
Based in Brooklyn
Shiraz Fazli blends textile scraps with painting and embroidery to create paintings, dolls, and tapestries that represent a
perversion of Afghan motifs, language, and traditions. Fazli received a BA from Bard College in 2019 and is currently completing a MA from Brooklyn College. She has exhibited in national and international galleries such as Gallerie Eingenheim, ACUD Art House, and ReflectSpace Gallery. In 2023, she exhibited her tapestry I break apart at the Goethe Institute in Exile’s Afghanistan Festival, aligning her work with Afghan artists in diaspora. Her work is informed by the cultural history of Afghanistan and the wider region, including folklore, poetry, calligraphy, videos, music, and miniature paintings.

Education
MA, Arts Education, Brooklyn College, Ongoing
BA, Middle Eastern Studies, Bard College, 2019

Selected Exhibitions and Showings
2023	 “Transforming Imagination: Afghan Art Between Tradition and Rebellion”, Galerie Eigenheim, Weimar
	 “Goethe-Institut in Exile Afghanistan Festival”, ACUD Art House, Berlin
	 “East Village Zine Fair”, Performance Space New York, New York, NY
         “Technowruz”, Nowadays, Brooklyn, NY
2021	 “All Hail Art Open Studios”, Brooklyn, NY
2020	 “Drawings in a Time of Social Distancing Online Exhibit”, LIC Arts, Queens, NY
2019	 “Fragmented Futures: Afghanistan 100 Years Later”, ReflectSpace Gallery, Berkeley, CA
         “1st Annual Mad Hatters Parade”, Hudson, NY
         “Hold on a Whole: Movement, Sound, Feeling”, Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
         “MusicArt”, Broadway Arts, Kingston, NY 
2017	 “POC Artists”, Fisher Studios, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2015	 “Fund For Visual Learning Auction” Fisher Studios, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2014	 “Monsters”, Galerie Protégé, New York, NY

Publications, Interviews, and Panels
2023	“Afghan Futurism as visual Imagination. Conversation with Shiraz Fazli” Reboot.fm, Berlin, Germany
         “Ha'm-neshini”, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2021	 What’s Afghan Punk Rock, Anyway? Zine Issue III
         “The Look Book Goes to Disco Tehran”, New York Magazine
         “Shiraz Fazli”, South Asian Memory Work
2020	 “Afghan Story Gallery”, The Documentarian Mag
2017	 “Mental Health in Communities of Color”, Bard College

Professional Experience and Funding
2023	 CityLore Teaching Artist Mentorship Program, New York, NY
2020	 Winter Studio Assisant to Leslie Dill
2020	 Social Justice Sewing Academy Incubator Program
2019	 Book Award in Arabic, Bard College