About

Yasi Shoja (b. 1999, Iran) is an artist working between painting, tattooing, sculpting, and whatever else feels urgent at the moment. Based between Tehran and Mashhad, she approaches art less as a choice and more as a survival instinct, something as involuntary as dreaming.

Her work carves out a space where beauty and discomfort can coexist, where the familiar turns strange, and meanings refuse to settle. It is both a process and a refuge, a way to move through thoughts, memories, and the tangled experience of having a body and living in language.

What emerges is an ongoing conversation between inner chaos and the attempt to shape it visually. They art resists perfection and certainty, it’s about showing up, being raw, and making room for doubt, vulnerability, and the unspoken.

"why I dream when I sleep is why I do art when I'm awake."