Nida Zehra is a Raleigh-based artist who explores the intersection of nostalgia and hope in her mixed-media work. She approaches her practice as a spiritual excavation, viewing every piece as a meditative prayer. She peels back layers of the self to reveal something raw and honest. Her artistic process is rooted in a personal history of nonviolent resistance.

Fascinated by the hyperrealism of Giovanni Benzoni’s Veiled Rebecca as a child, yet raised in a culture that discouraged image-making, she developed a practice that seeks to capture the subliminal details of the human experience. Through color and texture, she offers the viewer a moment of empathy and a reflection of the shared resilience in life.