Shama Sahzayasin
contact:  artstudioshama[at]gmail[dot]com


Born in Lahore in 1976, British artist Shama Sahzayasin is an interdisciplinary artist and ecofeminist theorist based in London.

The visceral language of Sahzayasin’s practice moves through diverse mediums and expansive watercolours, whose surfaces break across states of emergence. Pigment, gesture, and suspended forms create choreographies of tension—composed yet porous—open to rupture. These liquid registers evoke biopolitical frontiers where macro-political forces meet the intimate terrains of embodied life, reanimating the pulse of decolonial ecofeminist praxis.

Sahzayasin’s work traces how compressed violences settle into the architectures of everyday life. Through her writings and poetry, she unearths the ideological seams that shape multispecies conditions, tracking the ways harm circulates across social, historical, and planetary systems. This orientation forms the foundation of Multispecies (Co)mm(unity) Art (De)liberation: Kind(red) Futures, a conceptual framework founded by Sahzayasin that repositions creative practice towards (re)visions.

Sahzayasin has exhibited in group exhibitions in the UK and internationally.  In 2024, she was a prize-winning artist at the Festival Internacional Imagem de Natureza, Portugal. While completing her MA in Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths, London (2025), Sahzayasin’s installation Blood Scent: Appetite for Extinction was shortlisted for the Arts Thread Global Graduates Showcase, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture and the Monaco Foundry.



Sahzayasin uses sustainable methods and sources art materials in alignment with her environmental ethics.





                                                                                                                                                                                     Awards  2024
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Winner, Nature Drawing,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Festival Internacional Imagem de Natureza,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Vila Real, Portugal
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                     
                  



Selected Exhibitions
2025
Shortlisted
Arts Thread Global  Graduate Showcase
In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture and the Monaco Foundry
Online

2025 
Art + Ecology MA Graduate Show
Goldsmiths, University of London
UK

2024
FIIN ‘Internacional Imagem de Natureza‘ Exhibition
Vila Real, Portugal

2024
FINALIST: Abstract Landscape
David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation
Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London 
UK    

2023
Shortlisted: Nature Drawing
FIIN ‘Internacional Imagem de Natureza‘
Exhibition
Vila Real, Portugal

2023
‘Plantae’ 
Society of Botanical Artists
Mall Galleries, London
UK


  





Publications
‘The Corporate Capture of (Gyn)Ecology’
The Journal of Art & Ecology
(online) VOL 4, Goldsmiths University
2025


FAN/zine
Blood Scent: Appetite for Extinction 
Edition of 50
Self-Published 
2025