Azita Moradkhani

Azita Moradkhani was born in Tehran where she was exposed to Persian art and culture, as well as contemporaneous Iranian politics, and that double exposure increased her sensitivity to the dynamics of vulnerability and violence that she now investigates in her art.

She received her BFA from Tehran University of Art (2009), and both her MA in Art Education (2013) and her MFA in drawing, painting and sculpture (2015) from Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University.

She was a recipient of both the Young Masters Art Prize and the Young Masters Emerging Woman Art Prize in London in 2017. She received the Saint Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artists Grant that same year as well as the NYFA City Artist Corps Grants in 2021. The Financial Times (London) reviewed her series of drawings Victorious Secrets and the Boston Globe (MA) published reviews of her collaborative performance piece Irezumi, and her curated exhibition Echo over the past few years. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally many times, including at the Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK), Newport Art Museum (RI, USA), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Yinchuan, China), and Jane Lombard Gallery (NYC, USA). She has also been a visiting lecturer at universities such as New York Academy of Art (NY) and Lesley University (MA) as well as a panelist at Harvard University and MIT. She has been granted numerous residencies, including Yaddo, MASS MoCA, LMCC, and ISCP.