Assistant Professor

B.F.A.  Painting, Minor: Art History, Pratt Institute, 1993.
M.F.A.  Painting, Pratt Institute, 1997.
M.S.     Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture, Pratt
              Institute, 1997. 

Bio

Naz Shahrokh has been teaching Fine Arts in higher education for over a decade in the United States, Egypt, and the UAE.  Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, the Connecticut Post, the Advocate and Greenwich Time, and ART PAPERS, and is included in private and public collections internationally including the Library of Congress, D.C, The Alexandria Library, Alexandria, Egypt, and the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX. Past awards for her work include the Change Inc. (the Rauschenberg Foundation) Grant, Captiva, FL, and the Artist-In-The-Marketplace Fellowship, the Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY. 

Office: (Room X-102)
Phone: +9712 599 3864
Email: Naz.shahrokh@zu.ac.ae

Teaching Areas

Teaching areas include: Art Foundation; Design Principles; Painting; Drawing; Sculpture; Mixed Media; Installation Art; Professional Practice for Visual Artists; Curatorial training for Visual Artists; Art and Design in a Global Context.

Research and Professional Activities

Naz Shahrokh currently focuses on site-specific installation, sculpture, and painting, inspired by Ethnographic cultures and Art History. Her materials are detritus, either synthetic or organic or the mélange of the two, where she strives to transform the typically disregarded and commonplace materials into something less ordinary.  Recent exhibitions of her work include a solo exhibition Haft-Sin Zazen at Ghaf Gallery, Abu Dhabi (April 2010), and group exhibitions in the UAE, United States, and Italy.

Additional research interests include the Navajo Sand Paintings, Color Theory in conjunction to the chakras and visual perception, Land Art/Earthworks, Environmental Art and Architecture, Public Art, and Metaphysics.