Ayah Zakout is a Naarm-based artist and writer of Palestinian and Polynesian descent (Kūki ‘Airani Māori and Tahitian Mā'ohi), currently situated and practicing on unceded Bunurong/Boonwurrung land.

As a multidisciplinary artist, Ayah ventures both traditional and digital mediums, occasionally combining her ways of working. With a keen focus on text and cross-translation, she pursues a range of concepts; primarily that of cultural importance and sentiment, to linguistic questioning and reflection regarding their political identity.

Currently prioritising confession, confronting the ugly, installation and archive, Ayah desires to depict what entire self-expression truly entails.

Ayah Zakout, Photographed by Tyler Brown, 2025

  • Forever Bedroom, Group, Changing Room Gallery, April 9-19th 2026.

    Sjutra; Little Tomorrow, Duo, Unassigned Gallery, March 12-23rd 2026.

    Anau Tama'ine, Solo, Bus Projects, October 29 - December 6 2025.

    Anau, Solo, Kings Artist Run, September 11 - October 5 2025.

    Powdered-Milk Secret, Group & Curation, Unassigned Gallery, March 19 to March 31st 2025.

    Mirages: The Holy and Profane, Group, Changing Room Gallery, November 2024.

    ARIS3, Group, Abbotsford Convent, October 2024, Melbourne Fringe Festival.

    Exhibition for Ants 2.0, Group, Unassigned Gallery, October 2024.

    Emerging Artist Award Exhibition 2024, shortlisted for the Emerging Artist Award, Fortyfivedownstairs, July 16 - July 26 2024

    ARI(SE), Group, Berwick Cheese Factory, July 8 - August 26 2024.

    Graduate Exhibition, Group, LCI Gallery, April - May 2024.

    قاوم (Qaawam), LCI Gallery, 2024, Graduate Collection, LCI Gallery, January 2024.

    Community, Group, Meat Market Stables, 2022.

    Emergent, Group, Bunjil Place, VCE Graduate Arts, 2020.

  • You Will Never See My Pūkana (The Birds Don't Have Borders), set to publish in Sinister Wisdom: Body of Land

    When We Miss ( كندره, Kundura), set to publish in Journals of Love & Literature issue 3 'Metamorphosis'

    Emerging Artists Collective – Writer, June – Present, see more at: https://substack.com/@ayahzakout

  • Award of High Distinction 2024 - LCI Melbourne

    Emerging Artist Prize - Unassigned Gallery Ants Exhibition, 2024

    Emerging Artist Award Finalist, Fortyfivedownstairs, 2024

  • Synmedia 90.7 FM, Art Smitten - Ayah Zakout and Ebony Maurice-Wilmott with KINGS Artist-Run 

  • Bachelor of Design Arts

    Acquired at LCI Melbourne. Major in visual arts, sub-major in film & photography.

    Cert IV in Training and Assessment - Current

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