The inspiration of Zaria drawings began in early childhood when she traveled with her family throughout several of the world’s most remote landscapes, which were the subject of Zaria mother’s fine art photography. After a formal training at Skidmore college, Zaria now exhibit extensively in galleries and venues throughout the United States and overseas. In August 2012 Zaria led Chasing the Light, an art expedition sailing up the northwest coast of Greenland, retracing the 1869 journey of American painter William Bradford and artistically documenting the rapidly changing arctic landscape. Continuing to address climate change in her work, Zria spent September 2013 in the Maldives, the lowest-lying country in the world, and arguably the most vulnerable to rising sea levels.