studio ZAJMI
STUDIO ZAJMI (1993–) is a cross-disciplinary editorial, design, archival, and installation studio founded by EBBA ZAJMI.
Working from a diaspora between the Balkans and the Bronx, the studio is rooted only in Anzaldúa’s nepantla, aiming to be a memory keeper and comrade in collaboration for diasporic storytelling across borders and disciplines.
Rooted in folkloric traditions of storytelling and the art of diasporic survival, the studio embraces and breaks form to prioritize and share stories from marginal in-between spaces.
The studio is a space for interdisciplinary practice and memory keeping in diaspora, inspired by the home studio of a paternal grandfather and the writing desk of a maternal grandfather in perpetual migration.
KONTAKTO
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, editor, and visual artist. They are a humble educator, sometimes designer, casual trans-interpretative consultant, and aspiring born-again painter.
Their creative practice deconstructs and reimagines the family home as a bodymind, intergenerational patternmaking in failing surveillance states, erasure and revision within national archives and landscapes, object sculptures as memory keepers, and diasporic soundscapes.
ZAJMI’s work has been featured in various events at Bulevard Art and Media Institute, in the Ouroboros show at Essex Flowers Gallery, in the Baklava and Beats show at the Aperture Foundation, and more.
Their work has been published
in Ouroboros and Blindspotting by Image Text Ithaca Press, No, Dear Magazine, O Gocë, Porridge Magazine, and others. 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.
EBBA ZAJMI holds 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. They were accepted into and completed the 2021 Creative Publishing Seminar at the Center for Book Arts as well as an advanced nonfiction course at Sackett Street with Cinelle Barnes in 2023.
ZAJMI works in the US and abroad as an interdisciplinary educator and is a Writing MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at Sarah Lawrence College.
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