Zelikha Zohra Shoja

Zelikha Zohra Shoja is an interdisciplinary artist, gham-khoor (Farsi for 'grief-eater'), and arts educator living on Onondaga land in Syracuse, NY. She engages in communal storytelling, grief-work, and the transmission of memory. She was born and raised in Northern Virginia, where one of the largest diaspora of Afghans in the U.S. lives. Through textile, sound, video, and an embodied archive, she explores how individual experiences can be internalized, mirrored, and released collectively. Shoja received a BA in Diaspora Studies from George Mason University in 2018 and is currently pursuing an MFA in Art Video from Syracuse University.