Nazanin Noroozi’s work begins with private and family archival images, over-laid with found imagery of environmental catastrophes, and lo-fi graphics from early computer games. Questioning archives as modes of cultural transmission and historical memory, Noroozi invites the viewers into fragmented narratives that reflect on the ideas of displacement and fragility. Archeology of technologies such as super 8 home-videos and early computer graphics, as well as printmaking techniques and alternative photography processes navigate between still images and time-based mediums in order to explore fragile states of being and the idea of home that never materialize.
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Nazanin Noroozi is a multi-media artist incorporating moving images, printmaking and alternative photography processes to reflect on notions of collective memory, displacement and fragility. Noroozi’s work has been widely exhibited in both Iran and the United States, including the Immigrant Artist Biennial, Noyes Museum of Art, NY Live Arts, Prizm Art Fair, and Columbia University.
She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from New York Foundation for the arts (video & film) Artistic Freedom Initiative, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYFA IAP 2018, Mass MoCA Residency, and Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.
She is an editor at large of Kaarnamaa, a Journal of Art History and Criticism. Noroozi completed her MFA in painting and drawing from Pratt Institute. Her works have been featured in various publications and media including BBC News Persian, Elephant Magazine, Financial Times, and Brooklyn Rail.
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
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 and Residency Unlimited, 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
Solo Exhibitions
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
2022
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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, Athopos 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; Home Land, 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
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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
2009
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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
Selected Publications/Press/Mentions/Reviews
2021 Correspondence Archive, Natalia Nakazawa & Nazanin Noroozi
2021 EleVate Magazine, Issue No.1
2021 CADDISFLYPROJECT, Vol 2: Pressure
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
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Artist Talk and Lectures
2022 Nazanin Noroozi in Conversation with Pipa Mott, Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Nazanin Noroozi in Conversation with Azadeh Hussaini, Didaar Art Collective
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
2019 Artist Talk, Columbia University, New York, NY
2019 ArtTable, New York, NY
2019 Panel Discussion for A Bridge Between You and Everything; Iranian Women Artists in Conversation, Grey Art Gallery, ArteEast and NYU