Zahra Jewanjee

Zahra Jewanjee (b. 1983, Pakistan) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in the UAE. She holds a BFA from the National College of Arts, Pakistan, and an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, USA, which she completed on a full scholarship through the Salama Bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship.

Zahra has received several prestigious awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the New Aesthetics Award, and the Art Jameel Research and Practice Platform Grant. She has participated in international residencies at Nika Project Space (Dubai), Residency Unlimited (New York), Djerassi Artist Residency (California), Iowa Lakeside Laboratory (USA), Konvent Residencia (Spain), Campus Art Dubai (UAE), and DAAR Residency (Bangladesh). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, notably in the US Pavilion’s Dimensions of Citizenship at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2018), and has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Guernica Magazine, MAS Context, Take on Art, and RISD NatureLab, among others. She is a founder of SoZa Collective and serves as Adjunct Professor at the American University in Dubai.