Fiza Khatri is currently based in New Haven, CT


CONTACT

fizaakhatri [at] gmail [dot] com


EDUCATION

2023     MFA in Painting & Printmaking, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2015      BA in Art Studio, Magna Cum Laude, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
2013      Drawing Marathon, New York Studio School, New York, NY


HONORS AND RESIDENCIES

2024-2025, Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, New York, NY
2023, Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture, Dedalus Foundation, New York, NY
2023, Dean's Prize, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2022, South Asian Studies Summer Research Award, MacMillan Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2021, Joseph Skinner Fellowship, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
2018, Photo Kathmandu Mixed-Media Artist Residency, Kathmandu, Nepal
2015, Jane Brooks Prize for Excellence in Painting, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
2014, The Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
2014, Strohl Visual Arts Scholarship, Chautauqua Institution, Chautuauqua, NY
2014, Helen Vannett Award, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA


EXHIBITIONS

2024

Scene VII: Hair, Matt Carey-Williams, London, UK
Lahore Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan
Second Nature, Semiose, Paris, France
(solo) Confidant, Micki Meng, San Francisco, CA
(solo) Art Basel Hong Kong, booth with Jhaveri Contemporary. Hong Kong
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK
Art Dubai, group booth with Jhaveri Contemporary, Dubai, UAE

2023     

NADA Miami, group booth with Micki Meng, Miami, NY
Train Show, offsite with Olympia Gallery at Great Barrington Train Station, Great Barrington, MA
Unfurled, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
a signal urgent but breaking, Perrotin Gallery, New York, NY
Close, GRIMM, London, UK

2022      

Don’t Pretend You Can’t Hear, The Clemente Center, New York, NY
a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same word. Kal, Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Humor Has It, Olympia Gallery, New York, NY

2021      

Action Required, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT   
(solo) Sailoon and Other Stories, Jhaveri Contemporary, Online Viewing Room & London, UK

2020      

Open Studios, Karachi, Pakistan

2019       

Is It Possible to Live Outside of Language?, IVS Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
Unmaking History, The Research and Publication Centre, Lahore, Pakistan

2018      

Photo Kathmandu Mixed-Media Residency Open Studio, Yala Heritage Home, Kathmandu, Nepal
River in an Ocean, Lahore Biennale Collateral, Lahore, Pakistan

2016      

Homebodies: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2015      

Living Threads, New York Studio School, New York, NY 
Senior Art Studio Thesis Exhibition, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA


SELECT CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2021      

House of Kal Karachi, IVS Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan

2020     

irl: In Real Life, VM Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan

2018      

Who Gets To Talk About Whom? Collective Thinking and its Politics in the Decolonial Turn, AAN Gandhara-Art Space, Karachi, Pakistan
EST & UTC +5, simultaneous shows at FOMMA Trust, Karachi, Pakistan and Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA

2017      

Half-truths, Faraar/The Second Floor, Karachi, Pakistan

2016      

Homebodies: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY


TEACHING

2023       

Artist Talk, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Teaching Assistant, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2022      

Stone Lithography Workshop Instructor, Yale School of Art Printmaking Studio, New Haven, CT
Guest Critic, Mdes Interior Architecture Studies, RISD, Providence, RI

2021      

Visiting Faculty, Fine Arts Department, Indus Valley School of Art And Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan

2020      

Guest Critic, MPhil Program, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan

2018      

Workshop Instructor, Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan

2016      

Visiting Faculty, Bay View College, Karachi, Pakistan

2012-2015

Teaching Assistant, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA


WRITING / PUBLISHING

2022      

“What Happens on Page 76 of This Season’s Books?” Drawings for The New York Times T Magazine, October 2022

2021      

Kal Rituals The Many Headed Hydra Magazine #4 co-published with Zubaan Books

2018      

“States of Irreverence,” Catalog Essay for Sophia Balagamwala: Big Men Wear Really Big Shoes, Sanat Initiative, Karachi
“Whose City is it Anyway? Notes on the Inaugural Karachi Biennale," Presentation at Karachi Seminar: Critical Perspectives on Art and Education by TATE Research Center: Asia, Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan



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