Zelikha Zohra Shoja is an artist, researcher, and غمخوار / grief-eater living and working on unceded Onondaga land (Syracuse, New York). Working across moving image, ephemeral fabric photobooks, and gestural studies, her practice moves between ecologies of interdependence, failures of image-making, and transmission of memory. Her work is rooted in personal and collective experiences of rupture, mythmaking, and ineffability.

Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille), Goethe-Institut (Almaty and Tashkent), Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna; upcoming), Millennium Film Workshop (New York), National Art Gallery — The Palace (Sofia), New Wight Gallery (Los Angeles), Rhizome DC (Washington, D.C.), silent green Kulturquartier (Berlin), VIFF Centre (Toronto), among others.

She was recently awarded a 2026 Light Work Urban Video Project Regional Experimental Media Commission and a 2024-25 Fulbright U.S. Student Award pursuing creative research in Tajikistan and Türkiye.

For viewing links and inquiries: zelikha.z.shoja@gmail.com