About
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.
Unspoken, Untitled 7, 2025 - Acrylic on Canvas - 120 x 80 x 4 cm
Inspiration
Alizada’s work is inspired by lived experience and reflections on the psychological and existential dimensions of the human condition. Themes such as identity, displacement, trauma, desire, and transformation often emerge from his observations of life, migration, and cultural transition, as well as a broader curiosity about how individuals navigate memory, suffering, and healing.
Master's degree in International Business from University of Gothenburg
Bachelor's degree in Business and Economics from Jönköping University
After completing his first series, Unspoken, Alizada is currently working on the development of a new body of work that will expand on his ongoing exploration of identity, memory, and the psychological dimensions of the human condition. In parallel, he is preparing for future exhibitions and collaborations.
Alizada works primarily in acrylic on canvas, building compositions through layered surfaces and a gradual, exploratory process. His technique moves between abstraction and elements of figuration, allowing forms and emotional structures to emerge organically during the development of the work.
Alizada’s painting process often begins with a period of reflection in which ideas, compositions, and entire series are conceptually developed and visualized before the work begins. Once on canvas, the paintings evolve gradually through layered applications of acrylic, allowing forms, tensions, and emotional structures to emerge and develop throughout the process.
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