Nida Zehra is a Raleigh-based artist whose work traces the journeys we carry across borders, generations, and the quiet spaces within ourselves. Her interdisciplinary practice, which includes printmaking, painting, and photography, is a spiritual excavation where each piece is a meditation, each layer peeled back a step closer to something raw and honest.

At eight, raised in a culture that discouraged image-making, she saw Giovanni Benzoni's Veiled Rebecca for the first time. Marble that looked like breath. A woman hidden and revealed in the same gesture. She has been chasing that feeling ever since: the subliminal, the veiled, the almost-hidden.

Using color, texture, and inherited materials, she offers moments of empathy and reflections on leaving home, carrying what we're given, and beginning again.