Farëna Saburi (b. 1997, Dushanbe, Tajikistan) is an immigrant artist whose work considers the relationships between containment and movement. She makes paintings overlaid with textiles that are held in place with architectural hardware.Recognizing that containment is not an abstract concept for those whose identities have been historically regulated, Farëna explores containment through the continuous relationship between the liberating process of painting and the containment of painting as a communication tool. Her paintings are often unstretched, sometimes fraying, sometimes braided, sometimes stuffed and sometimes stitched into, but always active at the edges.

She received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from Columbia College and an MFA from the University of Missouri. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings and ArtWork Gallery, with recent exhibitions at the Old Stone House of Brooklyn (NY), Las Laguna Art Gallery (CA), Kansas City Artists Coalition (MO), and Sager Reeves Gallery (MO). She has attended residencies at Orr Street Studios and Columbia College, and has received numerous honors, including the Dorothy L. Rollins Memorial Scholarship and the Frederick Shane Art Award. Farëna currently lives and works in St.Louis, MO.