Born in India and now living in Brooklyn NY, Jaza has established herself as a researcher, designer, and a mixed-media artist.

Jaza graduated from California College of the Arts in San Francisco with a concentration in industrial design, and then pursued a masters in Human Computer Interaction from DePaul University in Chicago. Her varied backgrounds has culminated into a career in mixed-media printmaking and user research.

Artist's Statement

As someone whose body exists outside of eurocentric ideals, I move through a culture that often demands assimilation in exchange for belonging. This pressure intensifies for those of us who are women, queer, fat, or people of color. A conversation shaped by body politics, my work explores the tension between the perceived self and the embodied self. In response, my practice becomes a reclamation of space; a return to the body as it is, in its fullness and freedom.

I work primarily with monotype printmaking techniques, using images captured during moments of deep connection with nature while hiking, swimming, or simply being still. These are moments where my body feels free, unobserved, and completely at home. Through print, I re-visualize these experiences, focusing not on how my body looked, but on how it felt. The unpredictability of monotypes mirrors the rawness of these encounters: layered and deeply personal.

My prints are not just images; they are records of sensation, vulnerability, and liberation. They investigate the irregularities between body and environment, between internal perception and societal gaze. By inviting viewers into this space, I hope they are prompted to consider their own bodies; how they belong, how they are seen, and how they might be freed from the weight of imposed norms.

Ultimately, my work is a gesture toward freedom: a quiet resistance against cultural erasure and a reimagining of self through nature, memory, and mark-making.