Nazgol Ansarinia (born 1979; ) is an Iranian interdisciplinary visual artist. She is known for her mixed media sculpture and installation art. She lives in Tehran.
Biography Ansarina was born in 1979 in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran (now Iran). She holds a B.A. degree in 2001 from the London College of Communication, and a M.F.A. degree in 2003 from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California.
In March 2009, she was awarded the Abraaj Capital Art Prize.
Her work is included in the collections of the Queensland Art Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Tate Gallery and the British Museum.
In 2020, the Pejman Foundation opened its renovated Argo Factory in Tehran with Ansarinia's solo exhibition The Room Becomes a Street. The exhibition surveyed 15 years of her sculpture, installation, drawing and video, with particular attention to the effects of construction, demolition and changing boundaries between private and public space in Tehran.
See also
List of Iranian women artists
References
External links Join the Curator: A Conversation with Artist Nazgol Ansarinia from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art images of Ansarina's work on the Contemporary Art Library