Farieda Nazier is an artist, academic, and activist whose Afro-feminist memory work speaks on how colonial and apartheid histories shape our contemporary experiences. Her praxis centers on Transformative Art Practice, a growing field that seeks to facilitate social justice through art. Between 2017 and 2024, Nazier was in the position of HoD of Jewellery Design and Manufacture at the University of Johannesburg and more recently took up the position of Curator – Senior Lecturer at the FADA Gallery at the same institution.

 

Nazier’s experience straddles academic leadership, research and teaching at a post-graduate level, as well as curation and multimodal artistic practices. She has participated in and curated numerous local and international exhibitions and has worked with renowned institutions such as the Gold of Africa Museum, Apartheid Museum, the Castle of Good Hope, Galerie Handwerk, Museum Turnov and the Nirox Foundation. More recently, her textual research included the co-editing of "Politics of Design: Privilege and Prejudice in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa".

 

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