Photo credit: Yasmine Mjalli 2023

About

Saj Issa (b.1994, St. Louis, MO) received a BFA from Webster University, St. Louis in 2017, and an MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited at Felix Art Fair 2022, Los Angeles, Materials Fair 2022 in Mexico City, and the exhibition Many at the Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles. Issa is a recipient of the 2022 NCECA Graduate Student Fellowship, and has been selected to appear in New American Paintings, No. 159 & 165 MFA Annual Issue. She participated in two long-term residencies at Craft Alliance Center of Art + Design and Belger Crane Yard Studio. Issa lives and works in St. Louis, MO.