Azza Zein is an interdisciplinary artist and writer living in Narrm/Melbourne. Her installations and writing explore the dematerialisation of the economy, the invisibility of labour and counter-geography. She is particularly interested in revaluing the decorative act, examining migrant materials through the lens of modernity’s iconoclastic aesthetics and the violence of displacement. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Australia, participated in art residencies in Argentina (2016) India (2018), Mparntwe/ Alice Springs (2021) and the Santa Fe Art Institute (2022). She has published in journals like Art + Australia, Kohl Journal for Body and Gender Research, and un Extended. She has contributed an essay to the Care Ethics and Art anthology (Routledge) and catalogue essays to ACCA publications. In 2025, she was un Projects guest-editor for issue19.2 We swear we saw this. Drawings about notebooks and notebooks about the Wor(l)ds.
She was a member of un Projects editorial committee (2021-2024) and the Women’s Art Register committee (2021-2023).
As a sessional academic, she has taught studio art and theory at several universities, including the American University of Beirut, La Trobe University and the Victorian College of the Arts.
Zein holds an MFA from the Victorian College of Arts, the University of Melbourne (2020) and a PhD in economics from Texas A&M University (2005).
