2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Shangari Mwashighadi (b.1998) is a Kenyan-American anti-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Their practice currently is concerned with analyzing how value is assigned to certain aspirational experiences, objects, and resources. Along with how the sense of sight is manipulated in the process of making something perceived as valuable or valueless. Seeking to subvert conventional notions of value they investigate how time shifts value and how its passing can magnify or diminish it.

Shangari Mwashighadi (b.1998) is a Kenyan-American anti-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Their practice currently is concerned with analyzing how value is assigned to certain aspirational experiences, objects, and resources. Along with how the sense of sight is manipulated in the process of making something perceived as valuable or valueless. Seeking to subvert conventional notions of value they investigate how time shifts value and how its passing can magnify or diminish it. They received their BFA at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and their MFA at Parsons, The New School. Shangari has had exhibitions at Grace Exhibition Space, Bronx River Arts Center, All Street Gallery, AM:PM Gallery, Chashama Gallery, and On the Fringe. She was a Teaching Artist at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. She has also given a talk at Soho House in New York in 2023. At Parsons, The New School they were awarded the Student Travel Research Grant by the Provost Office to conduct research in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya 2024.