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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:

2024 

  • FST Studio Projects Fund 

2022 

  • Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper award- Dieu Donne’ 

2021  

  • New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship-Grant, Video & Film 

  • Artist in Residence at Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, NY 

  • New York City Artist Safe Haven Residency Program, in coalition with Artistic Freedom Initiative, Westbeth Artists’ Housing and Residency Unlimited, NY  

2020    

  • Membership awarded at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY   

  • International Artist in Residence by Alwan & Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts 

2019    

  • Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Ithaca, NY 

  • Mass MoCA Residency, North Adams, MA 

2018    

  • Recipient of NYFA Immigrant Artist Program 

2009    

  • First winner of “Selection of A New Generation” Exhibition, 4th Year, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran 

 

Public Collections: 

New York Public Library 

Harvard Art Museum 

Arizona State University 

Alfred University 

Pratt Institute 

    

Solo Exhibitions:

2023 This Bitter Earth, Dieu Donne, NYC 

2021   The Ripetide, 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 

  • The Rain Don’t Mind, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, curated by Deric Carner 

  • Rebel Flesh, screening at UnionDocs in collaboration with ArteEast, curated by Homa Sarabi 

  • Revolution Per Minute Film Festival, Boston, MA 

2024 

  • Icebox Project Space Video Festival, Philadelphia, PA 

  • Ghosts, PS122 Gallery, Curated by Francisco Donoso, New York, NY  

  • Tasvir Archive: a Research Exhibition on Contemporary Iranian Image-Based Art, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Curated by Mehrdad Mirzaie & Sara Abbaspur 

  • Transgressing Lands, The Boiler, Curated by A.E.Chapman, Brooklyn, NY 

2023 

  • Material Evidence, two-person exhibition with Esperanza Mayobre, Baxter CCNY, curated by Jenna Hamed 

  • After the End, NADA Curated, by Catherine Taft 

  • Visions of Contemporary Iran: Screening of Shorts, MassArt Cine’ Culture 

  • Hello Animation Festival, Tulsa, OK 

  • Woman, Life, Freedom, Kunsthaus, Troisdorf, Germany 

  • Sheesh, Studio 200 gallery, Curated by Omer Ben Zvi, Brooklyn, NY  

2022 

  • Open Your Eyes Underwater, School of Visual Arts, curated by Ken Zhang, New York, NY 

  • Ensemble. Two-person exhibition with Faten Gaddes. Ace Brooklyn, NY 

  • Sacred Pause, Sacred Fertilizer, Nevelson Chapel, New York, NY 

  • No place like home, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

  • Vector, Heaven Art Gallery, curated by Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Chicago, IL  

  • Contemporary Video Art Exhibition, Philadelphia Asian American Art Festival & 12 Gates Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 

  • Evening Red, Museum Ship Lilac, curated by Melinda Wang, New York, NY 

  • Out of Sight, Entrance Gallery, New York, NY 

  • Dread in the Eyes, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, curated by Deric Carner, New York, NY 

2021 

  • A Feast of Friends, Golsetani Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany.  

  • Dear Fractured Stones, Sumac Space, curated by Baharak Omidfard 

  • Revolting Bodies II, Atopos cvc, Athens, Greece. 

  • Dancing Where the Dreams Live, The Bridge and Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

  • Showroom No 1, The Bridge and Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

  • Our Tears are Sweet, Our Laughter Venomous, Eastern Connecticut State University 

2020 

  • A trouble Shared, online screening, Curated by Deric Carner 

  • Freedom is an Act, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, curated by Natalia Nakazawa, NY 

  • Memory Manifests, Didaar Art Collective, curated by Zahra Baniamerian  

  • Immigrant Artist Biennial; Homeland, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY 

  • Respite and Renewal: Inside and Out, Susan Eley Fine Art, NY  

2019    

  • A Bridge Between You and Everything, a group exhibition of women Iranian artists, Curated by Shirin Neshat, Highline Nine, New York, NY 

  • What if not Exotic, Building Bridges, curated by Mahsa Farhadikia, Santa Monica, CA  

  • Status, First Presbyterian church in the city of New York, curated by Zahra Banyamerian, New York, NY 

  • Wild Wild Earth, NY Live Arts, New York, NY 

  • On the Rocks, Susan Eley Fine Arts, New York, NY 

  • Evening Red, curated by Melinda Wang, Museum Ship Lilac, New York, NY 

  • Small Works, curated by Anna Shukeylo, Gallery 178, New York , NY 

  • Multiversant, ChaShaMa, New York, NY  

  • Small Works, Alterwork Studios, New York , NY 

  • Immigrant Artist Biennial, Radiator Gallery, New York, NY 

2018     

  • Untitled, White Wall Space, New York, NY  

  • People I love who are Far Away, E.TAY Gallery, New York, NY  

2017     

  • Universal Belonging, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL 

  • Published by the Artist 2017, IPCNY, New York, NY  

  • Unreliable Narrator, Art House Productions Gallery, Jersey City, NJ  

  • Beyond the Ban: Contemporary Iranian Art, Susan Eley Gallery, New York 

  • A Dark Wood, Noyes Museum, Atlantic City, NJ 

2016     

  • A Dark Wood, Art House Gallery & Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ 

  • A Remainder of 1, Stueben Galleries, Pratt Institute, New York 

  • A Show We Co-Curated Myself (Straddling the cultural world and the institutions), Pratt Institute, New York 

2015   

  • NEW WORK, NEW YORK: 1st Biennial Survey of Work by New York MFA Students & recent graduates, New York 

  • Memento Mori, Postcrypt Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York 

2014   

  • East-West Moments, Day To Day, The Museum of Russian Art, Jersey City, NJ 

  • Us, Here, 111 Front Street Galleries, Space 216, Dumbo, Brooklyn 

2013   

  • Morphing Identity, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 

2012   

  • Don’t Draw the Line, Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn,New York 

2008   

  • The New Generation (4th ed.), Pardis Gallery. Organized by Homa Art Gallery,Tehran 

2008   

  • Ayeh Art Gallery, Tehran 

  • 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:

 

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 Community Network cohort leader, Artistic Freedom Initiative 

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 

 

 

 

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