Sislej Xhafa (born 1970) is a Kosovar contemporary artist, based in New York.

In a Hatje Cantz Verlag monograph about the artist, art critic Guido Molinari writes "The condition of relentless traveler, throughout the West and beyond, allows Sislej Xhafa to keep in constant touch with current social, economic and aesthetic shifts and pour these back into his own works.

Approaching humor at times, by means of a clear-cut point of view reversal or unexpected elaboration on a simple stereotype, the work offers an insight into the core of social unease without triggering rejection mechanisms.

Xhafa's aim, indeed, is to give our minds tiny rushes of energy, without the deadlock of excess shock value.

"[1] He is represented by Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Havana / Rome / São Paulo / Paris / Dubai Xhafa has exhibited widely, including: