Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (she/her) is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, public art, and multimedia installation. She is from Oklahoma City, born to a Black mother and Iranian father. Tatyana, whose social practice is rooted in Black feminist praxis, considers image-making as a site of protest, contestation, affirmation and possibility. Her work centers community engagement and the public sphere, making site-specific work that considers how people, particularly women, Black folks and queer folks, experience race and gender within their surrounding physical environments. She is the creator of Stop Telling Women to Smile, an international street art series that tackles gender-based street harassment. In 2020, Tatyana released the book, Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We're Taking Back Our Power.

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Tatyana has lectured about her work and social practice methodology at institutions such as The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Brooklyn Museum, as well as several schools including Brown, Pratt, Stanford, and The New School. Fazlalizadeh has been profiled by the New York Times, NPR, the New Yorker, and Time Magazine. Her work has been exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the California African American Museum.  She is a Forbes Under 30 lister, a University of Michigan Mellon Foundation Fellow, and in 2018 she became the inaugural Public Artist in Residence for the New York City Commission on Human Rights.