Zekria Alizada is a Swedish contemporary artist with Afghan roots, residing and working in Stockholm, Sweden. His work examines the psychological and existential dimensions of the human condition. Drawing and painting since early childhood, he approaches art as an ongoing inquiry shaped by lived experience and personal reflection, through which he explores questions of life, identity, and the human condition.

Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, Alizada combines contemporary abstraction with elements of figuration to construct emotionally charged compositions. His paintings explore themes of isolation, trauma, loss, displacement, melancholy, human desire, and transformation. Informed in part by experiences of migration and cultural transition, his work reflects on identity not as a fixed state, but as something continually shaped through rupture, tension, desire, and reconstruction.

Rather than offering resolution, Alizada’s paintings create contemplative spaces where vulnerability, intimacy, and resilience coexist. His visual language often confronts darkness, grief, and psychological fragmentation, while acknowledging hope not as sentimentality, but as a restrained and persistent force within human endurance. His work invites viewers to reflect on the fragile boundaries between suffering, memory, desire, and healing.

Bio

Education

2020-2022: Master’s of Science in International Business and Trade, University of Gothenburg

2015-18: Bachelor’s of Science in Business and Economics, Jönköping University

2026-present: Featured by Artist Arena, Stockholm, Sweden

Collaboration

Exhibitions

Upcoming exhibitions in preparation