About

Faiyaz Jafri, Neo-Archetypes & Hyper-Unrealism

Born and raised in rural Holland and of Dutch and Pakistani descent, Faiyaz Jafri is an artist based in New York (Lenapehoking). His work hyperbolizes and intertextualizes modern archetypes, creating a language that is at once amplified and introspective. 

Since 1993, Faiyaz has maintained a continual art practice, and with over 30 years of experience in the field of images and sounds, he is fluent in a wide range of digital media and their traditional roots, including illustration and graphic design, filmmaking and animation, music scoring and post-production. His multidisciplinary practice spans print, video installations, and sculpture, with exhibitions in New York, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Berlin, Monterrey, and Sao Paolo. 

Faiyaz has worked for international commercial clients such as Nike, Coca-Cola, and IBM, and has been published in editorial outlets including Wired, Raygun, and The New York Times. Since 2002, he has written, directed, animated, scored, and produced over 20 independent films, contributing to the field’s evolving definitions while engaging in an intimate decolonial inquiry within his own creative context. He regularly gives lectures and masterclasses at universities and festivals, and since 2017 has taught Digital Materiality and the Art of Animation at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and Queens College. 

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Filmography

• 2025 – Mr Dumpster Fire
• 2024 – insecurity
• 2024 – Brown Boy
• 2023 – Blush
• 2022 – Wow
• 2021 – Shine
• 2021 – Are you OK?
• 2020 – V.O.
• 2020 – Gently (& Chainsaw)
• 2020 – Leaders
• 2019 – Jack
• 2019 – Drowning Girl
• 2018 – Supersad
• 2017 – Amoricania
• 2016 – Miller Fisher
• 2016 – Sway
• 2015 – This Ain’t Disneyland
• 2015 – Masculine Feminine
• 2014 – Disconnector
• 2013 – Cyclone forever
• 2012 – Planet Utero
• 2012 – Baby, I Love You.
• 2011 – Hello Bambi
• 2010 – Casualties of Love
• 2010 – Natural Plastic