Zarina Nares
Zarina Nares (b. 1995, New York, NY)
Living and working in New York
EDUCATION
Goldsmiths University of London
BFA Electronic Music, Computing and Technology
2019-2020
EXHIBITIONS + SCREENINGS + PERFORMANCE
2025
IS THIS A THEATER OF LOVE? (or just a hellscape of masks?), LIFE WORLD, New York, New York, curated by Nicholas Sanchez (performance)
Open Secret, EARTH, New York, New York, curated by Dana Dawud (screening)
Synthetics: A Night of Sermons, Metalabel, New York, New York, curated by Danielle Patterson and Ruby Bailey (group/screening)
REAL FEELINGS, Visit, Newburgh, New York, curated by Noah Wagman (solo)
Slow Down, Visit, Newburgh, New York, curated by Noah Wagman (solo)
Blade Study at Beverly's, Beverly's, New York, New York, curated by Brooke Nicholas and Ian Glover (screening)
But I Still Love You, Forma, London, United Kingdom, curated by Tabatha Batra Vaughan and Charlie Bird (screening)
Girl Crush, HEART, New York, New York, curated by Maya Man (screening)
Between Us, OCHI, Los Angeles, California, curated by Avery Wheless (group/online)
PANOPTICON II, Blade Study x HEART, New York, New York, curated by Ian Glover and Maya Man (group/performance)
I Disagree, Galeria Na Wysokim Poziomie, Poznan, Poland, curated by Zuza Szczepańska (solo)
'White-Knuckle' Screening, Rose Easton, London, United Kingdom, curated by Ruba Al-Sweel and Tasneem Sarkez (screening)
2024
WORK BITCH RAVE FREQUENCY HEALING MEDITATION FOR STRESS AND BURNOUT AND BECOMING YOUR BEST SELF BY LETTING GO OF YOUR PAST AND FOLLOWING YOUR TRUTH AND PUTTING IN THE HARD WORK BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT!!!!, HEART, New York, New York, curated by Maya Man (solo/performance)
Beg To Differ, TIMESHARE, Los Angeles, California, curated by Andy Bennett and Colleen Hargarden (group)
Sacred Screenshots, HEART, New York, New York, curated by Maya Man (group)
Chthonic Panic, The Source, Lake Hill, New York, curated by Juliet Raina (group)
Artists Screen Artists, Toxi, Zurich, Switzerland, curated by Gaia Del Santo (screening)
Girl Crush, Heavy Manner’s Library, Los Angeles, California, curated by Maya Man (screening)
2023
HOMECOMING, Public Works Administration, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Tomi Faison (group)
SCRAP YARD SCREENINGS, SARA’S, New York, New York, curated by Tomi Faison (screening)
Day Before Tomorrow, Eugster Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, curated by Vuk Cuk (group)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2025-present
Founder & Curator, TRIBECA GALLERY, Tumblr/New York, NY
An art gallery on Tumblr presenting monthly group and solo exhibitions of digital work
EXHIBITIONS
2025
CHRISTMAS IN TRIBECA, TRIBECA GALLERY, Tumblr/Long Island City, New York
I DON'T FEEL ANYTHING, TRIBECA GALLERY, Tumblr/Long Island City, New York
BOOKS
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (2025), Metalabel, Visit
REAL (2025), Visit
<IMG> <IMG> <IMG> Satiation (2025), Visit
CONNECTION IS UNSTABLE (2025), Visit
SLOW DOWN AND ENJOY THE VOID!!! (2025), Visit
01_DRIVE_20250109 (2025), Visit
EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED NOTHING HAS CHANGED (2024), Metalabel, Visit
SCREAM_2 (2024), Visit
SIREN (2024), Metalabel, Visit
TOXIC (2024), Visit
1985 SLAM DUNK (When Michael lost) (2024), Visit
Zarina Nares, 1*** H******** Rd, Apt **, Los Angeles, CA 9**** (2024), Visit
Hey. Honestly, I’m just…I don’t know. (2024), Metalabel, Visit
“Leave at my door” (2024), Printed Matter, Visit
TIK TOK + THE PATRIARCHY + THE 4TH DIMENSION (2022), Printed Matter, Pioneer Works
ARTIST TALKS AND LECTURES
"Blank Girl," The Hmm, in collaboration with VHDG, Leeuwarden (The Netherlands) & Online, 2024 (invited by Carolina and Koen)
Guest Lecture for Time-Based Digital Arts, University of Oregon, 2023 (invited by Hiba Ali)
PRESS
Interview, Phillip Edward Spradley, FAD Magazine, 2025
Three Short Blocks, Screen Slate, 2023
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Arthur Jafa Studio and SunHaus - Editorial Assistant (2022-2024)
Flying Lotus - Assistant Tour Manager, Assistant Production Manager (2021-2022)
Thundercat - Assistant Tour Manager, Assistant Production Manager (2021-2022)
BIO
Zarina Nares (b. 1995) is a New York City-born artist of Indian Muslim and British descent. She studied electronic music, computing, and technology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Working across installation, video, audio, performance, sculpture, and print, she examines how media, digital culture, and inherited power systems enter the psyche and generate states of tension, between desire and fear, empowerment and oppression, sincerity and performance. Her practice searches for the sites where emotional, political, and aesthetic forces collapse into one another. From these collisions, she reveals how external systems become internal truths, tracing the paradoxes through which people learn to feel, behave, and make meaning.
Zarina has exhibited at TIMESHARE, Los Angeles, HEART, New York, Eugster Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, screened at Sara’s Gallery, New York, Rose Easton, London, United Kingdom, and Toxi, Zurich, Switzerland, and performed at Blade Study x HEART, New York. Her work has been published by AUTRE Magazine, Do Not Research, and DSCENE, and her books have sold at Printed Matter, Pioneer Works, and Metalabel. She is the founder and curator of TRIBECA GALLERY, an art gallery on Tumblr.