Fairooz Nazifa

Fairooz Nazifa is a Bangladeshi-born, Minneapolis-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, mixed-media animation, and puppet-making. Their work often weaves recurring botanical motifs—shrubs, vines, and other plant forms—into layered narratives that evoke nostalgia, growth, and grounding. Alongside this organic imagery, Fairooz brings to life Kup, a recurring character through whom they explore identity, emotion, and the human condition.

Fairooz holds an MFA in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and has exhibited widely in both solo and group presentations. Beyond the gallery, their creative reach extends into music and performance, including directing and producing a puppet-based music video for their own track on MTV, as well as the stop-motion video Resuscitate and a performance for Coke Studio Bangla. This multidisciplinary background infuses their visual art with a distinct sense of rhythm, movement, and storytelling.

Their practice is a dialogue between form and feeling, where meticulous craft meets playful experimentation—and where each work becomes both a personal reflection and an open invitation for connection.