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Shirin Abedinrad

Shirin Abedinirad was born in 1986, in Tabriz, Iran. Beginning her art career with painting, Abedinirad studied graphic design and fashion design in Iran with the research focus on conceptual art and its overlapping with fashion.

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Nastaran Safaei

Nastaran Safaei was born in 1984 in Tehran/Iran. Beginning her journey as a sculptor by experimenting with pottery and clay in 2000 she was mostly self taught in her experience until attending Parviz Tanavoli’s first series of sculpting workshops in 2006 focusing on the Bronze technique which resulted in her first solo sculpture exhibition at Assar art gallery. The successful show made her a member of the association of Iranian sculptors.

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Rouzbeh Akhbari

Rouzbeh Akhbari was born in 1992 in Iran. He is installation and video artist currently based in Toronto. His practice is situated within a postcolonial discourse that is mainly interventionist in approach and addresses the public realm.

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Mona Shomali

Mona Shomali is a U.S. based artist. She was born in California in 1979. She began painting seriously at 15 years old after being introduced to nude life drawing classes sponsored by the Berkeley Artists Guild.

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Nazafarin Lotfi

Nazafarin Lotfi was born in 1984 in Iran. She is a visual artist and educator who lives in Chicago. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 and her BA from the University of Tehran in 2007.

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Lily Afshar

Acclaimed as “one of the world’s foremost classical guitarists”, Lily Afshar is the first woman in the world to receive a Doctorate in Classical Guitar Performance.

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