About

Lili Razi is a Persian American artist, placemaker, and community development practitioner with a background in urban design and public engagement.

Her work lives at the intersection of art, storytelling, and public space. Through illustration, murals, facilitation, workshops, and visual note-taking, she explores how creativity can strengthen community connection and help people feel seen within the places they inhabit.

Much of her work is shaped by collaboration. Whether managing public art projects, facilitating conversations, creating visual summaries, or developing participatory workshops, she is interested in how art can become a tool for dialogue, cultural expression, and collective storytelling.

Her artistic practice includes figure drawing, doodling, Persian-inspired tilemaking, mural-making, and illustrated storytelling. Across mediums, she often draws inspiration from Persian culture, everyday urban life, and the emotional relationship people build with public spaces.

Lili is also the creator of The World’s Public Spaces: A Cultural Placemaking Mosaic, a participatory storytelling project that brings together illustration, co-creation, and global perspectives on public space.