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, aiming to practice and engage with folkloric traditions of storytelling and the art of diasporic survival.




ebba ZAJMI        


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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 and reimagines the family home as a bodymind, intergenerational patternmaking in failing surveillance states, and erasure and revision within national archives and landscapes.  



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. They are a collaborator at DXHESVA.

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 completed the Creative Publishing Seminar at the Center for Book Arts, led by MC Hyland and Jenna Hamed in 2021.

They are currently pursuing a second graduate degree.

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