Nazafarin Lotfi (b. Iran) is a Chicago-based multi-disciplinary artist and organizer whose work imagines utopian alternatives to address the lingering impact of past events. Working across drawing, painting, and sculpture—often combined—she uses absence, erasure, and haunting to redefine desire and belonging for imperfect bodies. Lotfi received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BA from the University of Tehran. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as Artpace, Phoenix Art Museum, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Illinois State University, Tucson Museum of Art, Elmhurst Museum of Art, MOCA Tucson, Regards Chicago, among others. She is the recipient of 2023 Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence. Lotfi’s practice has received support from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona, and the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. In 2021-22, she was a Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University. Lotfi is the founder of Hamrah Arts Club, a creative mentorship program for refugee-status youth.

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Represented by Regards, Chicago, IL