Azzah Sultan
Visual Arts Residency
Azzah Sultan is an interdisciplinary artist who received her BFA from Parsons School of Design and her MFA at Washington State University. Born in Abu Dhabi, Azzah is a Malaysian native who grew up in Malaysia, Saudi, Finland, Bahrain, and is currently based in New York. She has exhibited her work at The New School, Parsons Paris Gallery, S.A.D. Gallery, The Bushwick Collective, BUFU Studios, The Ely Center, Sotheby’s Institute, and more. Her work strives to transcend the fallacy that Muslim women are oppressed by the nature of their religious customs while also speaking on the issues of navigating her identity through culture, immigration, and finding home through installation strategies.