Zelikha Zohra Shoja is a U.S.-based Afghan artist-researcher living and working on unceded Onondaga land (Syracuse, New York). Her work is engaged in ecologies of interdependence, collective myth-making, and the transmission of memory. With an academic background in migration and diaspora, she works across moving image, ephemeral fabric photobooks, and gestural studies to explore how collective experiences can be transferred, mirrored, and felt by others.

 

Her films and art have participated in international and national microcinemas, film festivals, and institutions including Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille), Goethe-Institut (Almaty and Tashkent), Millennium Film Workshop (New York), National Art Gallery — The Palace (Sofia), New Wight Gallery (Los Angeles), silent green Kulturquartier (Berlin), VIFF Centre (Toronto), among others. Most recently, Zelikha was a recipient of the 2024-25 Fulbright U.S. Student Award pursuing creative research in Tajikistan and Türkiye. 

 

Artist website: https://www.zelikhashoja.com/