Azita Moradkhani was born in Tehran where she was exposed to Persian art, as well as Iranian politics,  and that double exposure increased her sensitivity to the dynamics of vulnerability and violence that she  now explores in her art-making.  

She received her BFA from Tehran University of Art (2009), and both her MA in Art Education (2013)  and her MFA in drawing, painting and sculpture (2015) from Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts  and Tufts University.  

She was a recipient of both the Young Masters Art Prize and the Young Masters Emerging Woman Art  Prize in London in 2017. She received the Saint Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artists Grant that  same year as well as the NYFA City Artist Corps Grants in 2021. The Financial Times (London) reviewed  her series of drawings “Victorious Secrets” and the Boston Globe (MA) published reviews of her  collaborative performance piece “Irezumi,” and her curated exhibition “Echo” over the past few years.  Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally many times, including at the Royal Academy  of Arts (London, UK), Newport Art Museum (RI, USA), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Yinchuan, China). She has also been a visiting lecturer at universities such as Davidson College (NC) and Lesley University (MA) as well as a panelist at Harvard University and MIT. She is currently  teaching at Rhode Island School of Design (RI) and Parsons School of Design (NY). She has been  granted numerous residencies, including Yaddo, MASS MoCA, ISCP, and LMCC.

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