Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, public art, and multimedia installation. She is from Oklahoma City, born to a Black mother and Iranian father.

Tatyana, whose social practice is rooted in Black feminist praxis, considers image-making as a site of protest, contestation, affirmation and possibility. She makes site-specific work that considers how people, particularly women and Black folks, experience race and gender within their surrounding physical environments.

Tatyana is the creator of Stop Telling Women to Smile, an international series that tackles gender-based street harassment by centering intersectionality in public art, and is the author of Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We're Taking Back Our Power. In recent work, Tatyana finds interest in the interiority of the lives of racialized and sexualized people. Here, Tatyana sees her social practice as an opportunity to not only publicly reflect the experiences of others, but as a space for emotional connection through shared space, conversation, and experience.

Tatyana has lectured about her work and methodology at institutions such as The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, as well as several schools including Brown, Pratt, Stanford, and The New School. She has been profiled by the New York Times, NPR, the New Yorker, and Time Magazine. She is a Forbes Under 30 lister, a Mellon Foundation fellow, and in 2018, she became the inaugural Public Artist in Residence for the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Her first solo museum show will open at the California African American Museum of Art in August 2023.

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