Bio:
Zahra Jewanjee (B. Pakistan 1983) is an artist and educator living and working in the UAE. She received her BFA from the National College of Arts, Pakistan, and her MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, USA. Zahra is a recipient of the Salama Bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship and Full Scholarship, Abu Dhabi (2016).
Zahra is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant 2024 and the Djerassi Artist Residency Program 2024. Recently she has completed residencies at Iowa Lake Side Laboratory, USA, Konvent Residencia, Spain, Campus Art Dubai Residency, UAE, and DAAR Residency, Bangladesh.
Zahra exhibits nationally and internationally. Her work was featured in ‘Dimensions of Citizenship’ for the Venice Architecture Biennale – US Pavilion (2018), RISD NatureLab, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, MAS Context Chicago, and Guernica Magazine among other publications. She is a founder of ‘SoZa Collective’ and works as an Adjunct Professor at the American University in Dubai, UAE.
