Nazanin Noroozi examines loss, displacement, and collective history through moving image, printmaking, and experimental analog processes. Her works construct layered temporal and sensory spaces in which personal histories converge with broader political and historical conditions. Drawing from archival materials, family footage, found imagery, and documentary sources, Noroozi recontextualizes images that once circulated as records of lived events, transforming them into unstable and affectively charged fragments. Across her practice, transitional states such as departure, passage, estrangement, and return emerge as recurring conditions through which questions of belonging, rupture, and historical continuity are negotiated.
Through layering, distortion, and repetition, she produces densely textured visual fields that resist linear narrative and allow contradictory sensations such as safety and vulnerability, intimacy and alienation, and visibility and erasure to coexist simultaneously. Her practice emphasizes tactility and material experimentation, particularly through the integration of handmade paper, printmaking, and analog film processes.
Nazanin Noroozi is a multi-disciplinary artist working with moving images, printmaking, and alternative photography processes to grapple with personal archive, collective history, and displacement. Noroozi’s work has been widely exhibited at galleries and museums across the world including Baxter Camera Club NYC; SPACES, Cleveland, OH; NY Live Arts; Athopos, Athens, Greece; Immigrant Artist Biennial; Noyes Museum of Art, NJ; School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery; and Golestani Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany. Her works are in public collections such as New York Public Library, Harvard Art Museum, Arizona State University, and Alfred University. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts in Film and Video, Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellowship at Dieu Donné, Artistic Freedom Initiative, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Mass MoCA residency. Her works have been featured in various publications and media including, British Journal of Photography, Die Zeit Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, Elephant Magazine, and Financial Times. She is the editor-at-large of Meta-Text, Kaarnama Journal of Art History and Criticism’s artist projects. Noroozi moved to the New York City in 2012 and received her MFA in 2015 from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. She lives and works in the city.
