ZARI HARAT
BGHRA Resident Artist
Visual art, teaching, dialogue, and creative connection across generations and cultures.
Biography
Zari Harat is a visual artist and educator based in Hamburg, Germany, and BGHRA’s resident artist. Born in the United States into a South Asian family, she has spent much of her life in Germany. Her work brings art, spirituality, teaching, and experiences across cultures into conversation.
A long-time Berlin resident who first came to the city in 1981, Zari participated in the women’s movement and studied with Audre Lorde. Her creative practice reflects a life shaped by travel, friendship, dialogue, and community.
Her paintings explore connection, healing, tolerance, encounters, and forgiveness. Through color, figures, faces, and gestures, she invites viewers to reflect on their own experiences and relationships with others.
BGHRA’s Resident Artist
Zari’s sustained contributions to BGHRA bring visual art into the association’s conferences, teaching, and community conversations. Her work helps create spaces for artistic expression, reflection, and exchange across generations and borders.
- Conference artwork. Her painting Space for All accompanied BGHRA’s 2023 conference, Art as Resistance: Transcultural Expressions. Her artwork also appears in the 2024 program and 2025 conference.
- Artist roundtables. Zari has brought fellow artists into BGHRA’s conversations, including Zari’s Artists (2023) and Zari & her Artists (2024).
- Creative workshops. She facilitated Artistic Self Expressions at the 2026 conference.
Art, Teaching & Community
Zari has participated in BGHRA’s teaching collaborations at Davidson College, sharing her work and artistic approach with students in conversations about art, identity, and belonging. Read a student’s reflection on learning from her work.
Her online art classes offer individuals and groups opportunities to explore creative expression. For current class availability and arrangements, visit Zari’s portfolio and contact information.
Explore Zari’s Work
Portrait: existing BGHRA photograph. Biography draws on BGHRA’s artist and conference records. Profile updated October 2026.