(b. 1991, Uzbekistan) lives and works in London, UK.

Zulfiya Spowart’s multimedia practice focuses on invisible gestures of care that underpin social life and infrastructures. The artist examines forms of care - from her own experience of motherhood to specialized assistance in states of vulnerability - as mechanisms that are both supportive and regulatory. Her works bring to light a marginalized “grey zone” of everyday practices, granting them political significance and affective expressivity, often through a monumental format. By using recycled and secondary materials, Spowart emphasizes the cyclical nature of invisible labor and constructs a tactile economy of interaction. An important source for her practice is the material heritage of her native Central Asia, understood as a system of functional knowledge in which no form is accidental, but rather linked to action and to the logic of sustaining and continuing life.

— Dilda Ramazan,curator

Education:

  • 2013-2017 - Mural Arts at National Institute of Fine Arts and Design named after Kamoliddin Behzod

Exhibitions:

  • 2026 “The Aural Sea” The Uzbekistan National Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale of Art

  • 2026 “Theatre of Memory” Lohuti Theatre, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

  • 2025 Luxembourg Art Week, Glacis Square, Luxembourg

  • 2025 “Surface Reflections” The Silk Road Pavilion - London Design Biennial, Somerset House, London, UK

  • 2025 “In/Visible” Group Exhibition, Galleria d’East, Compiègne, France

  • 2024 “Elly-Belly” Solo Exhibition, London, UK

  • 2024 “The Mirror” Group Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

  • 2024 “The First Art Festival”, Regeneration, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

  • 2019 “Another Spaces” Exhibition of five female artists, Kvartira, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

  • 2017 “Tsvetaeva. Phaedra" Trio Exhibition, Mark Weil Theatre, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Artist in Residence:

  • 01.02.2025-31.03.2025 Art’otel Hoxton, London, UK

Publications:

  • 2026 ODRA Platform: Essay “Frames and Borders: Beyond the Binary Frameworks of Tradition Versus High Art”

Workshops:

  • 2025 Somerset House, Silk Road Pavilion at the London Design Biennale: Immersive Textile

  • 2025 Art’Otel Hoxton: Mothers Day Textile Collage

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