NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery announced representation of New-York based artist Azita Moradkhani. The gallery has been working closely with the artist since her 2023 debut solo show The Real Beneath. Moradkhani will be included in the upcoming group exhibition Facial Recognition curated by Barbara Pollack.
Azita Moradkhani was born in Tehran where she experienced Persian art and culture, as well as Iranian politics. The double exposure increased her sensitivity to the dynamics of vulnerability and violence that she now investigates in her art-making. Her work focuses on the contrast between masculine and feminine, power and vulnerability, the personal and political. Through delicate drawings and sculptural objects, she imbues intimate lingerie with embodied images of political uprisings, historical and current events. Reflecting upon her own experiences as a woman in both Iran and in the U.S., Moradkhani’s work is a bridge between two worlds, inviting the viewer to consider standards of beauty, cultural norms, and traditions.
Moradkhani (b. 1985, Iran) 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.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, 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 artist/lecturer at universities such as Davidson College (NC), Lesley University (MA), and the Parsons School of Design (NY). She has a current residence at ISCP and has previously had residencies at Yaddo, Virginia Center For the Creative Arts (VCCA), the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), Silver Art Projects, Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA), and LMCC.
