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
2014 The Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
2013 Drawing Marathon, New York Studio School, New York, NY
HONORS
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
2019 Participant, “Second International Kultursymposium Weimar: Recalculating the Route,” Goethe-Institut, Weimar, Germany
2018 Photo Kathmandu Mixed-Media Artist Residency, Kathmandu, Nepal
2015 Jane Brooks Prize for Excellence in Painting, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
2014 Strohl Visual Arts Scholarship, Chautauqua Institution, Chautuauqua, NY
EXHIBITIONS
2024 (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
2014 Juried Student Exhibition, Fowler-Kellog Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
Undergraduate Artist Invitational, The Loft Parlor, Easthampton, 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
2018 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
2022-2023 Teaching Assistant, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2022 Stone Lithography Workshop Instructor, Yale School of Art Printmaking Studio, New Haven, CT
2022 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
2018 “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