Interview with Shiva Negar
Shiva is Iranian-Canadian Actress, Model, Producer, and Influencer who rose to prominence starring Annika Ogden in CBS Films/Lionsgate Blockbuster Movie
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Xamoosh
Xamoosh was born in 1989, Tehran. He is a self-taught artist who started graffiti by putting his signature on the walls of Tehran in 2007. With more than a decade of activity in the writing of Persian murals, he became one of the pioneers and influential in this area.
Continue ReadingShahram Karimi
Shahram was born in 1957 Shiraz, and he is a painter and film production designer. He has extensive experience working within the film production department on a film crew for 15 years. He has worked from a very early conceptual process collaborating with Iranian artists and filmmakers; Shirin Neshat and Shoji Azari on many film projects. Their film "Women Without Men" won the 2009 Venice Film Festival, Silver Lion, for best directing. Shahram worked closely with director Richard Raymond on the movie "Desert Dancer".
Continue ReadingInterview with Bita Fayyazi
Rather than a sculptor, installation artist, or ceramicist engaged in a somewhat mystic relationship with her materials, Bita Fayyazi (b. 1962, Iran) is an artist who works within a more performative and markedly social practice. Beginning in the mid-1990s, her artistic interventions challenged the official definitions of art that were often circulated in Tehran at that time. Fayyazi struggled to show her work amidst an atmosphere of traditionalism, academics, and the influx of 1990s conceptual art from abroad.
Continue ReadingBabak Haghi
Born in 1982 in Tabriz, Babak Haghi is a professional Iranian visual artist. He started professional photography in 2012 with
Continue ReadingEsmael Bahrani
Esmail Bahrani, born in 1978, is an Iranian artist. He entered Tehran University of Art and Architectural, but quickly left school
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Interview with Boshra
Born in 1985 in Shiraz, Boshra is an Iranian poet, writer, actress, and model who was first introduced to Persian literature by her grandfather before starting primary school. She developed a precocious love of poets such as Iradj Mirza and Parvin E'tesami whose work inspired her to write her own poetry from a young age. Boshra later studied Children's Literature and Theatre at the BIHE University and eventually left Iran for the USA in 2009 where she currently resides.
Aisan Hoss
Aisan Hoss was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1984. She is a dancer and choreographer from Tehran, Iran. She started studying and performing Iranian dances at the age of twelve and teaching at the age of eighteen. While doing her BS in Business Management from Azad University in Tehran, Aisan attended a study-abroad English language program in London where she first encountered contemporary dance.
Continue ReadingLabkhand Olfatmanesh
Labkhand Olfatmanesh’s photography explores themes of feminism, racism, and isolation, and how these forces take shape in the United States and her birthplace of Iran.
Continue ReadingMani H Zonoozi
Mani Hosseinpour Zonoozi was born in Tehran, Iran. He moved to Austin, Texas in 2011 and studies Fashion and Commercial Photography.
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