Represented by Regards, Chicago, IL

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Nazafarin Lotfi is a Chicago based multidisciplinary artist, working in painting, sculpture, and drawing, often all at once. Using voids, negative space, shadow, and horizontality, Lotfi materializes the haunting power in the absent and seemingly immaterial, challenging the monumental and direct modes of representation. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BA from the University of Tehran. Lotfi’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as Artpace, San Antonio, TX; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ; Elmhurst Museum of Art, Elmhurst, IL; MOCA Tucson, AZ; Regards, Chicago, IL; 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. Lotfi is the founder of Hamrah Ars Club, a creative mentorship program for refugee-status youth. In 2021-22, she was a Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University.