Tatyana has spoken about her work and process at institutions such as National Museum of African American History and Culture, Brooklyn Museum, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, as well as several schools including Brown, Pratt, Stanford, and The New School. Fazlalizadeh has been profiled by the New York Times, NPR, the New Yorker, and Time Magazine. In 2018, she became the inaugural Public Artist in Residence for the New York City Commission on Human Rights. The impact of Fazlalizadeh's work spread to popular culture when she collaborated with director Spike Lee to base all of the artwork featured in his Netflix series, She's Gotta Have It, on her work. She also served as the show's art consultant. In 2020, Tatyana's debut book, Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We're Taking Back Our Power, released from Seal Press.
Artist Residencies
2023 Kino Saito, Verplanck, NY
2021 MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
University Residencies
2022 University of Michigan Institute of Humanities Mellon Foundation Fellowship
2017 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2014 Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Public Art Residencies
2019 New York City Commission on Human Rights, New York, NY
2017 Amplifier Foundation, Seattle, WA
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Speaking to Falling Seeds, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Pressed Against My Own Glass, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2021 The Day is Past and Gone, Greenwood Art Projects, Tulsa, OK
2019 Oklahoma is Black, Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
2018 Personal is Political, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
2017 Not Going Anywhere, BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY
Athena Shrugged, Long Sharp Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Women Are Not Seeking Your Validation, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh: Recent Works, Butter Gallery, Miami, FL
Group Exhibitions
2022 After the Fire, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
(mural and community engagement project with Lenny Correra and Nani Chacon)
2021 Black American Portraits, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Catalyst: Art and Social Justice, Gracie Mansion, New York, NY
Out of Touch, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Mirror, Mirror, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
The New Contemporaries Vol 1, Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 شگفت آور (fabulous), Shirin Gallery, New York, NY
Public Works: Artists' Interventions 1970s-Now, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
American Survey Pt. 1, Papillon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Vacancy: Urban Interruption and (Re)generation, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
(in collaboration with artist Amanda Williams)
2014 Painted Portraits, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Social Practice Projects
2012 - ongoing Stop Telling Women to Smile
2016 - 2018 America is Black
TV/Film
2017 - 2019 She’s Gotta Have It, Netflix, dir. Spike Lee
Primary artist and art consultant
Lists
2015 Forbers 30 Under 30
Lectures / Artist Talks
2023 University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Symposium
2022 Princeton University
University of Michigan Penny Stamps Lecture
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
2018 California State Channel Islands
The University of the Arts
2017 The University of the Arts
NYC Commission on Human Rights Forum
2016 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Open Engagement Conference
2015 Loyola University
Western Michigan University
Brown University
University of Southern California
University of Texas
Beloit College
University of Montana
Pratt Institute
2014 Brooklyn Museum
Stanford University
Santa Monica College
Georgia State University
George Mason University
Panel Discussions
2023 California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
In conversation with Lena Waithe
2018 Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC
In conversation with Kimberle' Crenshaw, Barbara Arnwire, and Samantha Masters
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
In conversation with Jessica Sabogal and Melinda James
2016 The New School, New York, NY
In conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith, Rembert Brown, and Alexis Coe
Rock the Vote's Truth to Power, Philadelphia, PA
In conversation with Danny Glover, Asheru, Touré, and Aaron Huey
New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
In conversation with Candy Chang
2015 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
In conversation with Spike Lee and Kehinde Wiley
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
In conversation with Damon Davis and Dread Scott
Brooklyn Museum , Brooklyn, NY
In conversation with Zanele Muholi and Staceyann Chin
Public Collections
Smithsonian National Museum of African American Art, Washington, DC
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Bibliography (Books)
2023
Christine Kim, Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews, Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2022
Brynne Barnes, illustrated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Black Girl Rising, Chronicle Books
Deborah Wiles, illustrated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Bobby: A Story of Robert F. Kennedy, Scholastic Books
2021
Jasmin Hernandez, We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World, Abrams Books
2020
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power, Seal Press
Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham, Black Futures, Penguin Random House
2018
Laura Veirs, illustrated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotton, Chronicle Books