BORN
1990 in Tehran, Iran
EDUCATION:
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Tucson, AZ, USA. Sept 2008 – Dec 2011
B.A. in Gender & Women’s Studies, graduated Cum Laude Honors
Minors: Spanish Language & Literature, Persian Language & Literature
Certificate in Middle Eastern Studies
Relevant Coursework: Sociology, Political Science, Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Studies
ADDITIONAL STUDIES
International Center for Persian Studies, Tehran, Iran (2009)
Adolfo Ibáñez University, Viña del Mar, Chile (2010)
RECENT HONORS
2022 Junior Fellow, Library of Congress
2021 Semi-finalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2022, National Portrait
Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2021 1st Prize, Ann Metzger Memorial National Biennial Exhibition, St. Louis Artists’ Guild. St. Louis, MO.
SOLO EXHIBITS
2022 Fish Without A Sea, MAINSITE Contemporary, Norman, OK
2022 Forms of Relation, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
2022 Emptied Waters, Clean Hands Gallery, Tulsa, OK
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Metamorphosis, Not Real Art, Online exhibit
2024 Student Salons, The Art Students League of New York. NY, NY.
2023 Student Salons, The Art Students League of New York. NY, NY.
2022 Destination Oklahoma. Oklahoma Contemporary. Oklahoma City, OK.
2023 Water is Thicker Than Blood, Root Division. San Francisco, CA.
2021 Almost Home, Lost in America Gallery. Tulsa, OK.
2021 Ann Metzger Memorial National Biennial Exhibition, St. Louis Artists’ Guild. Awarded 1st Prize. St. Louis, MO.
2020 Art in the Time of Covid, Center for Public Secrets, Tulsa, OK
2019 Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
2019 Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness, New York Mills Cultural Center, New York Mills, MN
2019 Pop-up Show, Bonzai Studio, Ajo, AZ
2019 Hidden Voices: From the Outside, Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT
2018 Tesoros Pequeños, Raices Taller 222 Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2018 The Doors of Make Room, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
2018 Iftar for IRAP, Agora Gallery, New York City, NY
2018 Balún Canán: Exposición, Rosario Castellanos Museum (Muroc), Comitán, Mexico
2018 Qisas: Narratives of Resistance, CUNY Law School, Long Island, NY
2018 Arabesque: Contemporary Conversations, Albin Polasek Museum, Winter Park, FL
2018 Huddle 2, Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Immigration 101, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Diffused Reflections, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA
2018 Artivism, Pollak Gallery Monmouth University Center for the Arts, West Long Branch,NJ
2018 Eres Poderosa, Espacio 1839, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Art on Paper, Catalyst Art Space, Westminster, CA
2018 Celebration, Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY
2017 Crossing Borders, Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
2017 Off the Wall, Art Under the Arches Gallery, Ajo, AZ
2010 Research Exposition of the Honors College, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2009 17th Annual Student Showcase, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
SELECT PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2022 Tulsa Global District Walls, Rodrigo’s Taco Shop. 12’x200’. Tulsa, OK.
2021 Festival Americas, mural facilitator, lead artist, Tulsa, OK
2020 Habit Fest Mural Festival, 25’x20’ mural. Tulsa, OK
2019 City of Chandler Electric box vinyl wrap, Chandler, AZ
2019 Town of Sahuarita Electric Box Mural Project, Sahuarita, AZ
2019 Mural for Kendall Whittier Walls, 17’x 8’. Tulsa, OK
2019 Saguaro, 10’ x1’x1’ stainless steel sculpture, (part of artist team), Underwater Museum of Art, Santa Rosa Beach, FL
2019 Expression, 12’x13’mural, Ajo Street Art Happening, Ajo, AZ
2019 Open Seating Beach Public Art Project, Resin-painted light-based fiberglass sculpture, Town of Gilbert, Gilbert, AZ
2018 Astral 15’x20’ mural Mother Road Market, Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation, Tulsa, OK
2018 The Doors of Make Room public art project, Make Room USA, Washington D.C
2018 Traffic Box Wrap, Boise City Dept. of Arts & History, Boise, ID
2017 Cambodia Town Mural Project. 13’ x 40’ mural, Arts Council for Long Beach, CA
2017 Ajo Street Art Project. 9’x 5’ mural. Ajo, AZ
RESIDENCIES
2022 Artist-In-Residence, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
2022 Artist residency at The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap GA
COLLECTIONS
Underwater Museum of Art, Santa Rosa Beach, FL
Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation
Works held in private collections in Chile and the United States
FILMS
2020 Puppet Regime, Short Documentary. Directorial debut, screenwriter, editor.
FILM FESTIVALS
2020 Puppet Regime, Houston Cinema Arts Society’s Borders|No Borders film competition
CURRICULUM WRITING
2020 Commissioned by Oklahoma Arts Council: “Exploring Street Art and Public Art: The Site-Specificity and Stories of Murals, Sculptures, and Public Installations”
2011 Commissioned by Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault: “Hey Baby! Art Opposing Sexual Violence”
PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR
Ghazi, G. (2024, April 12). Autorretrato en los archivos mudos, Polifonia Menstrual. Chile: Editorial Ginecosofia.
Ghazi, G., & Arvin Casoni, V. (2023). Más allá de una binariedad civilizatoria: Notas sobre Irán, acercamiento desde un feminismo interseccional como base para tejer redes de solidaridad transnacional. Revista Punto Género, (19),186–220. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2023.71215
Ghazi, G. (2021). Puppet Regime.[Comics]. Mizna, 2(22).
Ghazi, G. (2019). La frontera desemboca en ti. Cafeína Editores. Guatemala.
Ghazi, G. (2019). Select poems & illustration. Revista Ek Chapat. Issue 2. Chiapas, Mexico.
Ghazi, G. (2019). “La frontera desemboca en ti: poemas.” Revista Concreto Azul. Valparaíso, Chile.
Ghazi, G. (2018). The Genealogy of Immigration & the Narratives of Lineage. Protest Magazine. Issue 1. Fractured Atlas. New Orleans, LA.
Ghazi, G. (2018). Dos poemas. Bistró, (17). Ediciones O. Mérida, México.
Ghazi, G. (2018). Vatan & prose. In M.G. Herrera (Ed.), Ser, Poder y Dignidad. Zine, Denton, Texas.
Ghazi, G. (2017). Jasmine Flowers. In M. S. Soufi (Ed.), Salt Boundaries: An Anthology of Poetry (p. 78). Damascus: Don Quijote Publishing.
Ghazi, G. (2016, December). İpeğe ve yıkıma sarılı (M. Yeniay, Trans.). Şiirden, (38), 9. Istanbul, Turkey.
CONFERENCES
2024 Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) annual conference (presenter). Pittsburg, PA.
2022 Library of Congress 2022 Junior Fellows Program Display Day (presenter)
2022 “Persian Resources for Libraries Serving Afghan Refugees” (presenter). Oklahoma Library Association Conference
2022 “Diversity in Comics” (presenter). University of Oklahoma. Interviewed by OU-Tulsa DEI Director Dr. Jasmine Willis-Wallace.
2020 Amada Libertad Internatonal Poetry Festival, San Salvador, El Salvador [virtual due to COVID-19]
2019 International Poetry Festival of Aguacatán. Aguacatán, Guatemala
2018 Balún Canán: International Festival of Art & Literature. Comitán, Mexico
2018 International Poetry Festival of Havana. Havana, Cuba
2018 Tertulia del Sur. Havana, Cuba
2016 International Poetry Festival of Havana. Havana, Cuba
2016 Tertulia del Sur. Havana, Cuba
2016 Poetry Festival “Cielo de Relámpagos.” Juliaca, Peru
BIBLIOGRAPHY & PRESS
CanvasRebel (2024, February 29). Meet Ghazal Ghazi. CanvasRebel.
Norman Arts Council (2022, December 3). Iran-born Artist Brings Exploration of Persian, Islamic Visual Traditions to MAINSITE. Norman Arts Council.
Dorsey, O. (2022, October 19). CCDI Junior Fellow Spotlight: Ghazal Ghazi. Library of Congress Of the People: Widening the Path Blog.
Library of Congress. (2022, July 22). Junior Fellows Display Projects Online Again This Year. Library of Congress Gazette, 33(28).
The Library of Congress. (2022, July 20). Ghazal Ghazi: 2022 Junior Fellows Program Display Day.
Oklahoma Contemporary (2022). From Dust Bowl to Vietnam. Oklahoma Contemporary.
Godard, J. (2022). Orientalism. Salina Art Center Blog.
Petrazzi, C. (2022). Ghazal Ghazi: Quiet Monumentalism. Art Focus Oklahoma, 12-15.
Smithsonian Institute. (2022). The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today Exhibition: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
Bonnie, R. (2022). OU-Tulsa Student and Artist Discusses Diversity in Comics for DEI Week. Inside OU.
Cheser, A. (2022). Water, Earth, Stories, Skins: New Work by Ghazal Ghazi and Francheska Alcántara. Root Tulsa.
TCC Unveils Mural Celebrating Community. (2022). KJRH 2 News Oklahoma.
St. Louis Artists’ Guild (2021). Ghazal Ghazi First Place Winner in the Ann Metzger Memorial National Biennial Exhibition.
Gay, G.M. (2019). Steel saguaro sculpture, made in Tucson, now lives under the sea. Arizona Daily Star.
O’Beirne, S. (2019). “2019 Underwater Museum of Art Installations.” 30A.
Wells, R. (2019). “Watch Art in the Making with Kendall-Whittier Walls Program.” News on 6.
Smith, C. (2019). “Kendall Whittier Walls art program locations selected.” Fox23 News.
Liang, J. (2019). “Twelve New Designs Selected for Second Underwater Museum...”Deeper Blue.
Perera, S. (2019). “Artists readying 3 more outdoor benches for downtown...” Gilbert Sun News.
Aftab Committee (2018).“Celebrating the transformative power of the arts in education .” Iranian.com
Gov, J. (2017). “Cambodia Town Blooms with Many Murals.” Grunion Gazette.
Morris, A. (2017). “Cambodia Town Mural Project Gives….” Long Beach Post.
Rivera, V. (2016). “La migración poética de Ghazal Ghazi.” Literror. Chile.
Carbonell, N. (2016). “La Habana: Poesia en Movimiento.” El Heraldo. Colombia.
SELECT AWARDS, GRANTS, & RECOGNITION
2024 Travel support grant, Samuel H. Kress Foundation
2023 The Immortals Program, Kaimera Productions (2 year tenure)
2022 Puffin Foundation Grant, Fine Arts
2022 Creative Projects Grant, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition
2022 Finalist in visual art, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
2022 Library of Congress 2022 Junior Fellow. Published StoryMap, Unraveling 'Ishq. Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI).
2022 Semi-finalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2022, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2021 1st Prize, Ann Metzger Memorial National Biennial Exhibition, St. Louis Artists’ Guild. St. Louis, MO.
2021 O. Gail Poole Award, Norman Arts Council. Norman, OK
2018 Certificate of Recognition, Puente Cultural del Sur, Comitán, Mexico
2018 Go Long Beach Award, from the mayor of Long Beach, Dr. Robert Garcia
2017 Certificate of Recognition from the mayor of Long Beach, Dr. Robert Garcia
2017 Commendation from the County of Los Angeles, 4th District supervisor, Janice Hahn
2017 Certificate of Recognition from the City of Long Beach, CA councilman Daryl Supernaw
2017 Certificate of Recognition from the City of Long Beach, CA councilman Dee Andrews
2016 Certificate of Recognition, Osdaly Diaz director Casa de Artistas Creadores, Cuba
2010 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program
2009 The Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant: Women & Politics in Iran: Exploring Gender & Society Through Photodocumentary, The University of Arizona
2008 Arizona Excellence Award Recipient
2008 The Horatio Alger Association Scholarship Recipient
2008 Magellan Circle Scholar