Solo Exhibition
2021 - Burning Glass, Reading Stone
Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, ON
2020 - A Study in Human Error
Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 - WYSIWYM
Ed Video at Capacity 3 Gallery, Guelph, ON
2019 - Booth U 16
Untapped Artist at Artist Project 2019 / Toronto, ON
2018 - Here Now Back Then
Double Happiness Projects / Toronto, ON
2012 - A Failed Revolution
2 of 2 Gallery / Toronto, ON
2010 - Afghanistan
2 of 2 Gallery / Toronto, ON
Select Group Exhibitions
2020 - BigArtTO - Video Projection at Thistletown Community Centre
OCAD University, City of Toronto, Animation & Visual Arts Inc. / Toronto, ON
2020 - 40 Under Forty
Joseph D. Carrier Gallery at Columbus Centre / Toronto, ON
2020 - Fair Adaptation, Gallery Pivots
Patel Brown Gallery / Toronto, ON
2020 - Crossroads
Patel Gallery / Toronto, ON
2020 - Little Squares: The Pixel as Material and Metaphor
Gelnhyrst Art Gallery of Brant / Brantford, ON
2019 - Undomesticated
Koffler Centre for the Arts / Toronto, ON
2019 - Summer Group Exhibition
Patel Gallery / Toronto, ON
2019 - CAFKA @ The Walper 2019
CAFKA at The Walper Hotel / Kitchener, ON
2018 - EQ Bank Emerging Artist Award Exhibition
Trinity Square Video / Toronto, ON
2018 - Ontario Artists Society 145th Annual Juried Exhibition
John B. Aird Gallery / Toronto, ON
2018 - VAM40 Annual Juried Exhibition
Art Gallery of Mississauga / Mississauga, ON
2017 - Salon A Cote #1
A Cote Studio / Toronto, ON
2015 - Realized - 5 year celebration of Digital Painting Atelier
Ada Slaight Student Gallery / OCAD University / Toronto, ON
2015 - Until Exhibition
Good Fellas Gallery / Toronto, ON
2015 - Experiencing Perspectives
Mercedes Benz Juried Exhibition / Toronto, ON
2014 - Hazelton Lanes Art Festival
Juried Group Exhibition / Toronto, ON
2014 - Deck the Walls: 2nd Annual Salon Art Show
Project Gallery / Toronto, ON
2014 - Frontier Art Exhibition
Project Gallery / Toronto, ON
2014 - Optic Elixir IV
Project Gallery / Toronto, ON
2013 - Abstract Implications III Part 1 & 2
Project Gallery and Gallery 1313 / Toronto, ON
2010 - A Regime of Chaos
Gallery 1313 / Toronto, ON
2009 - Disfigured
Gladstone Hotel Gallery / Toronto, ON
Education
2011 - Bachelors of Fine Arts
OCAD University / Toronto, ON
Residency
2015 - Digital Painting Atelier
OCAD University / Toronto, ON
2014 Self Directed Residency
Artscape Gibraltar Point / Toronto Island, ON
Panel Discussion
OCAD Alumni: Navigating the Contemporary World
The Artist Project 2014 : Art Chat / Toronto, ON
Award
2019 - Untapped Emerging Artist - Artist Project 2019
2018 - Finalist for EDAA - EQ Bank Emerging Digital Artist Award
2018 - Best Font Choice - BUMP Television Launch and Awards
Grant
2020 - Ontario Arts Council
Exhibition Assistance Grant
2018 - Ontario Arts Council
Exhibition Assistance Grant
2016 - Ontario Arts Council
Emerging Artist Grant
Publications
‘Six art exhibitions to check out (safely) at Ontario galleries right now’ / Roise Prata / The Globe and Mail / 2020
‘Pixelated: How Shaheer Zazai Digitalized Afghan Carpets’ / Saba Askary / Ajam Media Collective / 2019
‘Tie it Off & Count Again’ / Rowan Lynch / Exhibition Essay and Curated Works / 2018
‘How to weave an Afghan rug...using Microsoft Word’ / Leah Collins / CBC Arts / 2018
‘Here Now Back Then’ / Mariam Nader / Exhibition Book Foreword / 2018
‘How 20 Artists See the Color Red’ / Curated by Format Team / Format Magazine / 2018
‘Meet the 2018 Emerging Digital Artists Award Finalists’ / Canadian Art / 2018
‘Rivet 4’ / Exhibition Publication / OCAD University / 2013
‘A game of patient logic vs. manic impulse - in paint’ / R.M. Vaughan / The Globe and Mail: The Exhibitionist / 2012
‘Art Agenda: Robert Mapplethorpe at Olga Korper, Kristen Smith at Gallerywest, Joe Hambleton at Pari Nadimi
and Shaheer Zazai at 2 of 2’ / Matthew Purvis / BlogTO Arts / 2010
