BIOGRPAHY

Lisa Fayiza Wright is an emerging interdisciplinary artist whose work serves as a visual auto-ethnography. She was born in Burkina Faso, West Africa; her childhood vacillated between living in Burkina Faso and Ghana before settling in upstate New York where she continues to reside. She attended Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts, focusing on time-based art and industrial design. Her work is sourced solely from a personal collection of scanned film negatives and home family movies taken by her father during her formative years raised in West Africa. Fayiza examines the role of observer versus active participant of the past to understand the makings of one’s identity. She combines moving images, audio recordings, and tactile needlework through an interdisciplinary approach, creating an immersive storytelling experience.