Shay Lari-Hosain is a Bay Area-based artist whose work spans photography, video art, mixed media, graphic design and writing. Their studio work explores how personal experiences of creativity and family history intersect with the politics of contemporary foreign policy, reflects on the shifting histories of the built environment, and investigates the ways time and memory shape perception in the photographic image. As a visual designer, Lari-Hosain crafts intentional experiences in both print and motion, and their background in music influences their artistic practice. Their art is currently or previously on view in juried and institutional group exhibitions across the West Coast and Midwest, at SF Camerawork, the Triton Museum of Art, New Museum Los Gatos, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Praxis Photo Arts Center, and Black Box Gallery, and internationally at PH21 Gallery, and their writing has appeared in the San Jose Mercury News and Pakistani English-language dailies like the Express Tribune and DAWN. They have won juror recognitions at Triton and New Museum and recognition by YoungArts and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, and given art talks at New Museum Los Gatos and PH21 Gallery.