Farieda Nazier is a Johannesburg-based artist, educator and activist. For the past 10 years, Nazier has been employed at the University of Johannesburg, where she was recently (2016) promoted to a senior lecturer position. As a lecturer, her duties included course and module coordination, teaching, researching and community engagement. Subsequently, in her capacity as Head of Department and senior lecturer (Jewellery Design and Manufacture) Nazier’s responsibilities included strategic leadership and alignment of the departmental academic and operational procedures to a critical art and design educational paradigm.

As a creative practitioner who employs visual arts, performance and craft making as a means to disrupt and subvert, her work explores the psychological and perceptible consequences of historical legacies and how these are intimately interconnected to socio-political contexts. She employs provocative installations and performance to engage in discursive opportunities within her practice, amongst publics and within her educational praxis. Nazier has successfully curated and participated in a number of art exhibitions, both locally and abroad. Most recently (2021), she exhibited The Posterity Project at the Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town) and The Forge (Johannesburg). Her work has also been on show at the 56th Venice Biennale in Venice and at the FNB Art Fair (Johannesburg) in 2015. In March of the same year, Nazier was invited to present her research at Principia College (Elsah, USA), MCLA (Williamstown, USA) and the prestigious Williams College (Williamstown, USA). Her research and writing appears in a broad scope of publications which ranges from academic peer-reviewed journals such as the international Education as Change journal to educational books such as the Cambridge Rainbow Readers series.