Extract from Artist Statement (complete statement can be found in gallery brochure) Nasim Pirhadi's work actively confronts and explores the social instability and how it relates to the ways Iranian...

Join artist's Reyhan Yazdani and Nasim Pirhadi on this tour of their respective works featured in, We Are Countless. Through an exploration of diverse materi...

Nasim Pirhadi was born in Iran in 1984. She received B.A. in Painting from Tehran University of art in 2013, later She graduated from Azad University of Tehran with…

In this video, I am repeatedly smearing my face with and then cleaning it of basil seeds as traditional drum music plays in the background. This music is normally played in zoorkhanehs, traditional gyms that only men are allowed to enter and participate in, and whose name translates to House of Strength. There is an old belief that women are not purified enough to enter these sacred places and that the inherent corruption of womanhood makes them undeserving of titles like ‘hero’ or ‘champion’. Through the repetitive act of cleaning my face of basil seeds, positioned here to represent Irian womanhood, I am asking: is it enough now? Am I purified enough? Am I eligible now?

During the exhibit, the support for Iranians extended outside the art gallery as people linked arms and chanted "woman, life, freedom."

Opening November 7th in our Project Gallery is What Seems Simple by Nasim Pirhadi. In this work, Nasim stages ordinary gestures — reading a book, brushing her hair, tying a shoelace, biting an apple, taking measurements — within the suspension of an underwater world. These gestures reflect the w