Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

Bio

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a Black/Iranian portrait artist and activist who has posted her “Stop Telling Women to Smile” series on walls around the world—some of it funded by a 2013 Kickstarter project—and published a book by the same name as an examination of issues of street harassment. She was the art consultant for Spike Lee’s Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It and the inaugural Public Artist in Residence for the New York City Commission on Human Rights. She recently launched BLK Paper, an online resource for downloading free racial justice posters made by Black artists.