Artist Sheida Soleimani Exhibits in London, Depicts Intergenerational Trauma in Her Art
By Katy Shahandeh
Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian-American artist born in 1990 to parents who fled Iran in the mid-1980s for political reasons.
Her father was a member of a left-leaning pro-democracy group who, while still...
Pop Culture Meets Persian Miniature: Interview With Artist Rabee Baghshani
By Katy Shahandeh
Rabee Baghshani is a self-taught artist based in Mashhad, Iran whose work fuses Persian miniatures and Qajar iconography with Pop art and contemporary branding.
Baghshani was born in Mashhad in 1983 into a...
Prima Ballerina Haydeh Changizian Dreams of Reopening A Ballet School in Iran
By Katy Shahandeh
Haydeh Changizian is an artist with an illustrious past. Formerly a Prima Ballerina with the National Ballet of Iran – before its shutdown after the Iranian Revolution in 1979 – she has...
