Nazanin Noroozi
Education
2015 M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
2012 M.A. in Art History, University of Art, Tehran, Iran
2008 B.A. in Painting, Sooreh University, Tehran, Iran.
Awards/ Fellowships
2025
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Artist Community Network cohort leader, Artistic Freedom Initiative
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Foundation for the Contemporary Art Emergency Grant
2024
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FST Studio Projects Fund
2022
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Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper award- Dieu Donne’
2021
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New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship-Grant, Video & Film
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Artist in Residence at Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, NY
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New York City Artist Safe Haven Residency Program, in coalition with Artistic Freedom Initiative, Westbeth Artists’ Housing in collaboration with Residency Unlimited & Artistic Freedom Initiative, NY
2020
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Membership awarded at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY
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International Artist in Residence by Alwan & Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
2019
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Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Ithaca, NY
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Mass MoCA Residency, North Adams, MA
2018
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Recipient of NYFA Immigrant Artist Program
2009
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First winner of “Selection of A New Generation” Exhibition, 4th Year, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran
Public Collections
New York Public Library
Harvard Art Museums
University of Michigan
Arizona State University
Alfred University
Pratt Institute
Solo Exhibitions
2025 False Dawn, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2023 This Bitter Earth, Dieu Donne, NYC
2021 The Riptide, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
2014 Remember I Told You I’d Buy the Flowers Myself
MFA thesis show, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
2010 Medusa, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Selected Group Exhibitions, Screenings and Festivals
2025
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The Rain Don’t Mind, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, curated by Deric Carner
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Rebel Flesh, screening at UnionDocs in collaboration with ArteEast, curated by Homa Sarabi
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Revolution Per Minute Film Festival, Boston, MA
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Grayson Cox: Nepo Maybe, Peep Space NY, NY
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Seed Bomb, The Children’s Art Carnival, curated by Yasuyo Tanaka, NY
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Speak Volumes, 2025 edition of Projet Betula’s Screening Series
2024
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Icebox Project Space Video Festival, Philadelphia, PA
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Ghosts, PS122 Gallery, Curated by Francisco Donoso, New York, NY
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Tasvir Archive: a Research Exhibition on Contemporary Iranian Image-Based Art, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Curated by Mehrdad Mirzaie & Sara Abbaspur
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Transgressing Lands, The Boiler, Curated by A.E.Chapman, Brooklyn, NY
2023
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Material Evidence, two-person exhibition with Esperanza Mayobre, Baxter CCNY, curated by Jenna Hamed, NY
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After the End, NADA Curated, by Catherine Taft
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Visions of Contemporary Iran: Screening of Shorts, MassArt Cine’ Culture
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Hello Animation Festival, Tulsa, OK
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Woman, Life, Freedom, Kunsthaus, Troisdorf, Germany
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Sheesh, Studio 200 gallery, Curated by Omer Ben Zvi, Brooklyn, NY
2022
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Open Your Eyes Underwater, School of Visual Arts, curated by Ken Zhang, New York, NY
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Ensemble. Two-person exhibition with Faten Gaddes. Ace Brooklyn, NY
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Sacred Pause, Sacred Fertilizer, Nevelson Chapel, New York, NY
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No place like home, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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Vector, Heaven Art Gallery, curated by Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Chicago, IL
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Contemporary Video Art Exhibition, Philadelphia Asian American Art Festival & 12 Gates Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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Evening Red, Museum Ship Lilac, curated by Melinda Wang, New York, NY
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Out of Sight, Entrance Gallery, New York, NY
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Dread in the Eyes, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, curated by Deric Carner, New York, NY
2021
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A Feast of Friends, Golsetani Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany.
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Dear Fractured Stones, Sumac Space, curated by Baharak Omidfard
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Revolting Bodies II, Atopos cvc, Athens, Greece.
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Dancing Where the Dreams Live, The Bridge and Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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Showroom No 1, The Bridge and Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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Our Tears are Sweet, Our Laughter Venomous, Eastern Connecticut State University
2020
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A trouble Shared, online screening, Curated by Deric Carner
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Freedom is an Act, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, curated by Natalia Nakazawa, NY
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Memory Manifests, Didaar Art Collective, curated by Zahra Baniamerian
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Immigrant Artist Biennial; Homeland, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
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Respite and Renewal: Inside and Out, Susan Eley Fine Art, NY
2019
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A Bridge Between You and Everything, a group exhibition of women Iranian artists, Curated by Shirin Neshat, Highline Nine, New York, NY
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What if not Exotic, Building Bridges, curated by Mahsa Farhadikia, Santa Monica, CA
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Status, First Presbyterian church in the city of New York, curated by Zahra Banyamerian, New York, NY
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Wild Wild Earth, NY Live Arts, New York, NY
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On the Rocks, Susan Eley Fine Arts, New York, NY
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Evening Red, curated by Melinda Wang, Museum Ship Lilac, New York, NY
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Small Works, curated by Anna Shukeylo, Gallery 178, New York, NY
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Multiversant, ChaShaMa, New York, NY
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Small Works, Alterwork Studios, New York, NY
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Immigrant Artist Biennial, Radiator Gallery, New York, NY
2018
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Untitled, White Wall Space, New York, NY
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People I love who are Far Away, E.TAY Gallery, New York, NY
2017
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Universal Belonging, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
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Published by the Artist 2017, IPCNY, New York, NY
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Unreliable Narrator, Art House Productions Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
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Beyond the Ban: Contemporary Iranian Art, Susan Eley Gallery, New York
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A Dark Wood, Noyes Museum, Atlantic City, NJ
2016
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A Dark Wood, Art House Gallery & Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
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A Remainder of 1, Stueben Galleries, Pratt Institute, New York
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A Show We Co-Curated Myself (Straddling the cultural world and the institutions), Pratt Institute, New York
2015
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NEW WORK, NEW YORK: 1st Biennial Survey of Work by New York MFA Students & recent graduates, New York
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Memento Mori, Postcrypt Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2014
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East-West Moments, Day to Day, The Museum of Russian Art, Jersey City, NJ
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Us, here, 111 Front Street Galleries, Space 216, Dumbo, Brooklyn
2013
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Morphing Identity, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
2012
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Don’t Draw the Line, Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn,New York
2008
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The New Generation (4th ed.), Pardis Gallery. Organized by Homa Art Gallery,Tehran
2008
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Ayeh Art Gallery, Tehran
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The New Generation (3rd ed.), Homa Art Gallery, Tehran
2007 -
Kamal-el-Din Behzad Gallery,Tehran, curated by Bobak Etminani
Select Publications/Press/Mentions/Reviews
2025 Broad Street Review, Pamela J. Forsythe
2025 80th Anniversary of the USA-JAPAN Atomic Bombings: Sowing seeds for the future, Art Spiel
2025 "Paperwork: institutional Classifications of Handmade Paper Artwork". Eliana Blechman, 2025, Hand Papermaking, Volume 40, Summer 2025
2024 Art Spiel, Transgressing Lands at the Boiler
2024 “I Create; I Resist: Iranian Artists on the frontline of social change", Artistic Freedom Initiative
2024 Impulse Magazine, Interview with Francisco Donoso
2024 British Journal of Photography, Issue 7917, Trust the Process, Philippa Kelly.
2024 Photo Trouvée Magazine, Issue No. 13
2024 New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program, Interview with Ya Yun Teng
2023 Women Eco Artists Dialog, Issue No. 14, Collective Memory and Displacement
2023 Evergreen Review, Material Worlds, Interview with Case Jernigan
2023 Material Evidence: conversation with Jenna Hamed & Esperanza Mayobre, Baxter CCNY, NY
2023 Widewalls, Kame Hame
2023 Dovetail Magazine, This Bitter Earth, Kate Mothes
2023 Hand Papermaking Magazine, Winter 2023 Issue
2023 Evergreen Review, Introduction to the Iran Issue
2022 De Zeit Magazin, Iranische Künstlerinnen.
2021 Correspondence Archive, Natalia Nakazawa & Nazanin Noroozi
2021 EleVate Magazine, Issue No.1
2021 CADDISFLYPROJECT, Vol 2: Pressure
2020 Evergreen Review, Leaving New York
2020 In Nazanin Noroozi's Studio. BBC News Perisan, Tamasha.
2020 Art Spiel: Reflection on the works of Contemporary Artists
2020 “Womanhood in the Iranian Art of the Early Twenty-First Century”. Mahsa Biglow, 2020, Kaarnamaa; A Journal of Art History and Criticism. V 4, N 1, Spring 2020.
2020 Women’s Art Journal, Spring/Summer 2020. Donna Stein
2019 Interview with Art Uncovered, Kimberly Ruth
2019 Brooklyn Rail, Artseen Review, Cigdem Asatekin
2019 Elephant Magazine, Is Migration the Most Politically Charged Subject in the World?, Charlotte Jansen
2019 Independent Persian, Pantea Bahrami
2017 Huffington Post, Art of Iranian Immigrants Reveals The Creative Potential Of Inclusivity, Priscilla Frank
2016 YO-NEWYORK! , NO. 3. Fall 2016
2014 The Portrait of an Artist, Short Documentary, Mathilde Hamel for CUNY TV and Voices of NY
2008 Review of The New Generation Annual at Tandis Magazine
2009 Review of Nazanin Noroozi’s Exhibition at Tandis Magazine, Amir Soghrati
Artist Talks, lectures, workshops, and collaborations
2025 Artist Talk, Seedbomb, The Children’s Art Carnival, New York, NY
2025 Artist talk, School of Visual Arts
2025 Artivism: Bookmaking workshop in collaboration with New York City Center and Dorot
2025 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program, Mentor, NYFA, NY
2025 Rebel Flesh, artist panel discussion at UnionDocs in collaboration with ArteEast, NY
2024 Artist Panel Discussion, Transgressing Lands. The Boiler, New York, NY
2024 Mining Histories: Hand Paper-making, Stenciling, Embedding & Collage Workshop, Dieu Donne
2024 Panel discussion, ONWARDS Projects
2023 Family Archive Bookmaking Workshop, Baxter St CCNY, NY
2023 Artist Talk, City University of New York, NY
2023 World Voices Festival 2023, PEN America
2023 The Press: Interactions Between Hand Paper-making and Printmaking Workshop, Dieu Donne, NY
2023 Artist talk, Fort Hays State University, KS
2023 Artist talk, Stony Brook University, NY
2023 Process and Practice, Nazanin Noroozi and Abdolreza Aminlari in Conversation, Dieu Donne
2022 Artist talk, Rutgers University, NJ
2022 Rage, Rhythm, Renaissance. Performance of/in the ongoing Iranian Revolution. NYU TISCH
2022 Tactile Poetry: Artist’s Books by Susan Gossip and Abby Leigh with Nazanin Noroozi. Dieu Donne.
2022 Artist Talk, Transmitter Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Nazanin Noroozi in Conversation with Pipa Mott, Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Intro to Screen Printing Workshop, Westbeth Artist Housing
2021 Polyester Plate Lithography Workshop, Westbeth Artist Housing, NY
2021 Artist Talk with Taraneh Azar, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
2021 Artist Talk, CCNY, New York, NY
2020 Artist Talk with Katya Grokhovsky, founder Immigrant Artist Biennial
2020 Cyanotype workshop, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
2019 Artist Talk, Columbia University, New York, NY
2019 ArtTable, New York, NY
2019 Non-toxic printmaking workshop, Chashama, NY
2019 Panel Discussion for A Bridge Between You and Everything; Iranian Women Artists in Conversation, Grey Art Gallery, ArteEast and NYU