Category: Iran
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Leila Seyedzadeh, born in 1986 in Tehran, Iran, is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist based in New York. Initially rooted in painting and drawing, her artistic journey has transformed into a captivating exploration of imaginary landscapes. The rugged beauty of the Alborz Mountains in Tehran, a sanctuary from urban chaos, sparked her passion for depicting landscapes.…
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(1935 – 2016) She was born in Haifa, to Persian parents. She was the great-granddaughter of Baháʼu’lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, although she was not a member of the Baháʼí Community. Maliheh Afnan moved to Beirut with her family in 1949. She received a BA from the American University of Beirut and an…
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(1973 – 2018) An Iranian contemporary multidisciplinary visual artist whose work focused on women’s issues, gender representation, and the beauty industry.She is best known for depiction of rebellious Iranian women in her Girls in Cars and Miss Hybrid series of photographs. Aliabadi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1973 to Maymanat and Iraj Aliabadi. Her…
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Golrokh Nafisi (b. 1981, Isfahan, Iran) is a visual artist based between Amsterdam and Tehran. Graduate of Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam 2010-2014, from 2000-2005, she studied design at Art University of Tehran. Her main artistic practice is to imagine alternative ways of both counting time and locating ourselves; shaping a new imagination for calendars as…
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Malekeh Nayiny was born in 1955 in Teheran, Iran. According to family members, she was a very bad-tempered baby, but she improved a great deal around the age of three. Nayiny loved to play with the ants in our garden. Every day, she would feed them sugar and watch how patiently they would carry each…
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Neda Razavipour’s artistic practice explores the question of balance, a condition that continually shifts between the extremes of order and chaos. This search affects the individual as well as entire societies, spaces, and structures. For this reason, she usually conceives her work site-specifically, developing in a precise choreography over several days, weeks, or months. Often…
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Interdisciplinary artist Nida Bangash was born in Iran, raised in Pakistan, and currently lives in North Texas. While she works in a variety of media, Bangash was formally trained in Persian and South Asian miniature painting. Utilizing intricate patterns and precise details, Bangash’s works weave in personal identity and experience to investigate the complexities of…
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“The paintings and installations of the Iranian artist Samira Hodaei are painstakingly assembled from scores of individual elements. Whether pixel-like dots that are applied directly on the canvas or discarded everyday objects that are assembled into huge garment-like structures, her work seems to simultaneously cover and uncover the object of its investigation. The narratives she…
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Sara Abbasnejad was born in 1983, in the midst of the Iran-Iraq War, in the tumultuous region of Khuzestan, adjacent to the Persian Gulf. Upon obtaining a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering – Telecommunications from the university, she made the unconventional choice to leave behind her academic study in pursuit of exploring her experiences and…
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Born in 1984 in Iran, Sara Rahanjam is a distinguished sculptor who has carved her path through the world of contemporary Iranian art. In 2007, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture from the Fine Art department at Tehran University, establishing a solid foundation for her artistic journey. Sara’s artistic endeavors have been marked by…
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Leila Ghandchi (b.1982, Tehran, Iran) is a PhD candidate in Teaching German as a Foreign Language at Azad University in Tehran, Iran. Ghandchi studied painting under the tutelage of Manouchehr Motabar, a well-known Iranian painter, in addition to serving as his teaching assistant from 2000 to 2004. Her paintings cover a wide variety of themes.…