Zahra Nazari, lives and works in New York City. She has a studio at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Her large-scale abstracted and architectonic paintings and installations are based on the ruins of historical sites in conjunction with modern architectural forms. The results are fictitious structures within floating, collapsing and shifting environments.

Nazari received her BFA from the School of Art & Architecture in Tabriz, Iran and MFA from the State University of New York, New Paltz, NY. She was a recipient of The AIM Fellowship from the Bronx Museum, NY. She also received a Visiting Artist Fellowship from the Cooper Union School of Art in New York, NY and Ruth Katzman Scholarship from the Art League Residency at Vyt, Sparkill, NY.

She has exhibited both nationally and internationally at: Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China; Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA; Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY; Saba Institution, Tehran, Iran; The Painting Center, New York, NY; Woman Made Gallery and the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, IL.

Her upcoming scheduled exhibitions for 2016-18 include the: Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC; Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY; Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT; Penn College in Williamsport, PA and the New Museum Los Gatos, CA.