studio ZAJMI

STUDIO ZAJMI (1993–) is a cross-disciplinary studio founded by EBBA ZAJMI, working with writing, visual art, and archives.

Working from a diaspora between the Balkans and the Bronx, the studio is rooted only in Anzaldúa’s nepantla.

ebba ZAJMI

BIOGRAFI

EBBA ZAJMI was born in Tirana to an interfaith family with roots in Peja, Kosovo and the Mirdita region of Albania. They were raised in the diaspora communities of Belmont, on the Lenape lands of the Bronx.

ZAJMI is an interdisciplinary writer, artist, and educator. Their creative practice deconstructs the family home as a bodymind, intergenerational patternmaking in failing surveillance states, and interclass, cross-cultural contact in public and private spaces.

EBBA ZAJMI is currently pursuing a second graduate degree. Their work has been supported by the 2026 McCormack Summer Workshop, formerly Tin House, where they worked with Sarah Aziza. They were also supported by the Kettle Pond Writing Conference in 2026.

They hold a BA with Honors in English Literature from Lehman College and an MFA in Image Text from the program formerly hosted at Ithaca College, now at Cornell University. In 2021, they completed the Creative Publishing Seminar at the Center for Book Arts with MC Hyland and Jenna Hamed.

ZAJMI completed an apprenticeship with the Feminist Press and an internship with Ugly Duckling Presse, where they supported editorial, copyedit, design, and community engagement work.

They’ve faciliated workshops in traditional and non-traditional formats alike, most recently offering exhibition or book fair related workshops at Kurimanzutto Gallery in Chelsea and Bulevard Art and Media Institute in Tirana.

They are a co-founder at DXHESVA, a diasporic collective holding communal space for creative and curious beings across New York City.

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