indira allegra | Artist and Founder
indira allegra is a conceptual artist and founder of Cazimi Studio.
allegra's work has been featured in The Art Newspaper, Artnet, Art Journal, BOMB Magazine, SF Chronicle, e-flux, All Arts, Topical Cream and ARTFORUM and in exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY); Blaffer Museum (Houston, TX); Center for Craft Creativity and Design (Asheville, NC); John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI); Jacob Lawrence Gallery (Seattle, WA); Gray Area (San Francisco, CA); the Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA) and San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (San Jose, CA) among others.
allegra is the author of Tension Studies and Dispersal of a Feeling: Bloodnotes on Choreography and Illness (Sming Sming Books). Their writing has been featured in Theater, TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture, American Craft Magazine, Panorama Journal, Leonardo and Material Intelligence among others. Their monograph Blackout (Sming Sming Books) is in the collection of major art museum libraries nationwide. allegra has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Burke Prize, Creative Capital, United States Artists Fellowship, Gerbode Choreographer Award, Art Matters Fellowship, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Creative Project Grant and CripTech Metaverse Fellowship. They are the 2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident at the University of Washington.