Shyista is a multimedia artist who uses painting, patterning, and digital media to portray her investigations about perception, memory, and identity. Whether it be through the use of color or style, Shyista’s paintings focus on pattern and their interpretation, allowing her to explore a subject and find similarities between it and its tangents. This varying level of interpretation also bleeds into her digital artwork. Through photography and video, Shyista manipulates the media itself allowing viewers to have a more intimate, personal relationship to the piece’s overall meaning. Currently focusing on the overarching theme of cultural hybridity, the aim of her works allow viewers to experience curated spaces, sans borders, that still maintain culturally identifiable features. With a career focus in interior design, textile use has always been something relevant to her practice. The patterns found within these textiles point to the different regions from where they came. She weaves and braids fabrics to not only pay homage to their materiality and the way that they were most likely fabricated in their origin countries, but also to emphasize that in the space, they are unifying to become a collective piece. Both in her art practice as well as in her career for interior design, creation of a shared space is the ultimate goal. In her painting style and textile weaving, a constant theme has been the integration of the grid. With meticulous focus on this underlying structure, she attempts to manipulate it in ways that reveal her concepts while adhering to its rules. Recent accomplishments include positions at RH and Marriott International, work showcased in the group exhibition Open Studio: Interdisciplinary Art Practice In Progress at the Saint Mary’s College of California Museum of Art, and juror for local art competitions.