About

Nasim Moghadam is an art educator and a multidisciplinary visual artist holding an MFA in studio art and a BFA in graphic design. Her installations focus on discrimination and hyphenated identity, and the constraints on women, their bodies, and their voices. Using sound, video, photography, and multimedia sculptures of varying scales, and materials that serve as constant physical reminders of femininity, Moghadam creates narratives inspired by the efforts of women worldwide who are defending their basic, unalienable rights. Envisioning another world, an equal world in solidarity, Moghadam celebrates how womxn go beyond cultural and political limitations, rise up, and create a revolution.

Moghadam has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, H. A. R. D. Foundation, Outstanding Graduate Award from SFAI, along with residencies at the Cubberley Artist Studio Program, Kala Art Institute, and Building 180. Her works have been published and featured in international festivals including Italy and Japan, and national museums and galleries, such as SFMOMA, San Francisco Art Commission, Museum of Craft and Design, Southern Exposure, Minnesota Street Project, Aggregate Space Gallery, Root Division, Kala Art, O’Hanlon Center, etc. Nasim is also an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts and Foothill college.