I left Tehran for London at 17 to start a path in the arts. I studied graphic design and later moved to the US to continue my studies. The diverse graduate program led me from design to visual arts and after a year of working in New York I moved back to Tehran and quit design for good. Not being equipped with the traditional skills of a fine artist I worked on developing my own visual language, basing my projects on textual and visual research and a process of giving them form through various media. I have been living and working in Tehran since 2004 and my work has been included in exhibitions such as “Adventure of the Black Square,” Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015), “Longing Persia” at Museum Rietberg, Zurich (2013), “When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes,” Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2012) and 12th Istanbul Biennial. I was a recipient of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in 2009.
