About Ghazal

Ghazal Ghazi (Iran, 1990) is a poet and visual artist whose life has spanned three distinct regions: the Middle East, the U.S., and South America. Through oil paintings and ceramics, she speaks both to and from peripheries of power, empire, and belonging as she address collective memory and archival silences. She was a semifinalist in the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2022 at the Smithsonian Institution as well as a 2022 Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress. She is currently an artist in residence at BRIC Arts Media in Brooklyn, New York.  

Her books include La frontera desemboca en ti (Cafeína Editores: Guatemala, 2019) and El ancestro del poema es la herida (Ginecosofia: Chile, 2024).