Nazafarin Lotfi is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist and organizer whose practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture, and community organizing. Through subtle forms, absence, and ambiguous materiality, her work troubles the dominant structures and gestures toward alternative ways of being beyond the immediate present. Lotfi holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of Tehran. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Artpace, Phoenix Art Museum, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Tucson Museum of Art, Elmhurst Museum of Art, MOCA Tucson, Illinois State University, and Regards Chicago, among others.

Lotfi is a recipient of the 2023 Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence. Her practice has been supported by 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. From 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

https://www.hamrahartsclub.com