Nazafarin Lotfi, 2023
OSGF
Eliza Moore Fellow 2023
Nazafarin Lotfi received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 and her BA from the University of Tehran in 2007. Lotfi is a multi-disciplinary artist who studies how the self and notions of identity formation are understood in relationship to architecture, landscape, space, and place. She explores humanness in relation to nonhuman bodies and places that are defined by practices of map-making and gardening. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Regards, Chicago, IL; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ; Artpace, San Antonio, TX; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; MOCA Tucson, AZ; Elmhurst Museum of Art, Elmhurst, IL, among many more. She is the recipient of 2023 Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence.
Lotfi’s practice has received support from Research and Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix Art Museum’s Contemporary Art Grant, Night Bloom: Grants for Artists, and CAAP Grant from the City of Chicago. Lotfi was a Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University in 2021-22.