CV
b. 1992, Shawnee, Kansas, USA
living in Los Angeles, CA, USA
Education
2015
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Fiber, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art History, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Residencies
May 2024
Arab American National Museum
Dearborn, MI
August 2018–September 2018
Textile Arts | Los Angeles Artist Residency
Helms Design Center, Culver City, CA
July 2015
Order of the Third Bird
Mildred's Lane, Narrowsburg, NY
Grants & Awards
2021
Arts Resiliency Fund Grant from Culver Arts, Culver City, CA
2020
Projecting Possibilities: Projected Art Installation and Grant Program, juried by Helms Bakery District and Culver City Arts Foundation, Culver City, CA
2015
Karen W. Gould Fiber Department Project Award, Kansas City, MO
2013
Textile Society of America Scholarship for The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. Fall Symposium
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2025 (forthcoming)
Lel Ya Lel / Night O Night, La Pintoresca Branch Library, Pasadena, CA
2024
Politico residents with Hector O. Hernandez, Studio 203, Los Angeles, CA
RECLAMATION, Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
2021
these illusory utopias with Yasmine Nasser Diaz, Studio 203, Los Angeles, CA
2020
The Sketchbooks with Monica Lloyd, Studio 203, Los Angeles, CA
Projecting Possibilities, juried by Helms Bakery District and Culver City Arts Foundation, Helms Design Center, Culver City, CA
Toward a new mythos, Studio 203, Los Angeles, CA
2015
The Journey with Zulian Martinez, Vulpes Bastille, Kansas City, MO
2014
Toward an Ideology, Destination Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Battle of the Saints, organized by Self-Help Graphics and Art, Long Beach City College Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2023
Influences/Influencers, Craft in America, Los Angeles, CA
Matrilineage: The Knowledge We Carry, Studio 203, Los Angeles, CA
A Common Thread, Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA
Procreate Project Archive, OVADA Gallery, Oxford, UK
Contemporary Perspectives in Fiber Arts, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2022
CORE 2021, Long Beach Airport, Long Beach, CA
Tribeca Immersive: New Voices Competition, Tribeca Festival, New York, NY (Costume Artist for Planet City (2020), directed by Liam Young)
Our Time on Earth, Barbican Centre, London, UK (Costume Artist for Planet City (2020), directed by Liam Young)
Instruments of Memory, Studio 203, Los Angeles, CA
Surface, Substance, Structure, California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, Escondido, CA
2021
CORE 2021, 2nd & PCH Able ARTS Work Gallery, Long Beach, CA
California Fibers: Historical References, Studio 203, Los Angeles, CA
2020
NGV Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, Australia (Costume Artist for Planet City (2020), directed by Liam Young)
California Fibers: Figuratively, Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
The Process: [EXPOSED], Able ARTS Work online exhibition
Exh 04, Floorr Online Exhibition
2019
Hard Mud, Soft Thread, juried by Carrie Burckle, The Loft, Long Beach, CA
Craft Revolution, juried by Staci Steinberger, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2018
CORE 2018: Defining Ourselves, Able ARTS Work Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Dimensions: Juried Exhibition of Fine Craft, juried by Peggy Sivert Zask, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
2017
South Bay Focus 2017, juried by Emily Gonzalez-Jarrett, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Bibliography
2020
Liam Young, Planet City, Andrew Mackenzie with Charles Rice and Mark Campbell, eds., (Melbourne, Australia: Uro Publications, 2020): 7-12, 20-24, 385-87.
Elizabeth Denny, “Curated Selections: Aneesa Shami,” Dovetail, Issue 02, 110-111.
Online Periodicals & Website Publications
2024
Klencsh Ely Sequeira, "Aneesa Shami Zizzo: Weaving Identity, Memory and Recovery through Art," The Art Bridge, October 2024, ed. V, https://www.artisteculture.com/the-art-bridge.
Melina Paris, “Aneesa Shami Zizzo: Reclamation at Kleefeld Contemporary,” Random Lengths News, April 22, 2024, https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/2024/04/22/reclamation/50705.
Rawaa Talass, “Arab American Heritage Month: LA-based artist Aneesa Shami Zizzo talks tactile medium of fabrics,” Arab News, April 12, 2024, https://www.arabnews.com/node/2491891/lifestyle.
2021
Lila Nazemian, “Artist Spotlight with Aneesa Shami,” ArteEast, October 13, 2021
https://arteeast.org/programs/aneesa-shami/.
Blogs
2020
Claudia Pretelin, “The Fear of Emptiness: An Interview with Aneesa Shami,” Instruments of Memory, May 15, 2020, https://instrumentsofmemory.com/2020/05/15/the-fear-of-emptiness-an-interview-with-aneesa-shami/.
Collections
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
The Elder Statesman, Los Angeles, CA
Kancan USA, Los Angeles, CA