Fiza Khatri is an artist based in New Haven, CT and Karachi, Pakistan. She is currently an MFA candidate at the Yale School of Art in Painting and Printmaking.
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
SELECT HONORS
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
2021 (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
2013 FIVE, Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, MA
Form and Figure, Blanchard Art Gallery, South Hadley, MA
CURATING
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
2014 Three Point Perspective: Variations in Small Drawings, Blanchard Art Gallery, South Hadley, MA
2014 Do You Have an Exit Strategy?, Blanchard Art Gallery, South Hadley, MA
WRITING & PRESENTING
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