Tatyana Fazlalizadeh was born on 1985 and is an American artist, activist, and freelance illustrator.
11 Facts About Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is best known as the creator of the campaign and art exhibition Stop Telling Women to Smile.
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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's mother was an artist and art teacher, but Tatyana did not begin creating her own art until she was in high school.
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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh moved to Philadelphia to attend the University of the Arts, graduating in 2007 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's work featuring Barack Obama was included in the book Art For Obama: Designing Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change, which was edited by artist Shepard Fairey.
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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is most well known for her Stop Telling Women to Smile campaign.
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In 2012 Tatyana Fazlalizadeh gained notoriety when she began to use street art to speak out against the street harassment of women.
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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh subsequently ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to bring Stop Telling Women to Smile posters to other cities across the United States.
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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's work appears in the Netflix TV series She's Gotta Have It.
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In 2018 Tatyana Fazlalizadeh was a participating artist in Round 48: "Beyond Social Practice" at Project Row Houses in Houston.
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In 2020, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh created a mural series in New York City featuring portraits of Breonna Taylor, Atatiana Jefferson, Tony McDade, and Nina Pop as part of her work addressing racial and transphobic violence.