Taha Heydari
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Taha Heydari as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Taha Heydari received a BFA in Painting from the Art University of Tehran (2010) and a diploma in painting from the School of Visual Arts in Tehran, Iran. He then received an MFA from LeRoy E. Hoffberger…
Anahita Bagheri
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Anahita Bagheri as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Anahita Bagheri is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist based in NYC. Her art is about her lived experience and memories as a woman artist in Iran and New York. She gives her own narratives mixed with Persian art, mythology, literature,…
Ramyar Vala
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Ramyar Vala as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Ramyar Vala (b. 1986, Tehran, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer living and working in New York. His early practice was as a graphic designer in Tehran. Though still grounded in design and fabrication, his research tracks…
Maryam Yousif
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Maryam Yousif as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Maryam Yousif was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1985 and lives in San Francisco, California. She received a Master of Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2017, and received a Bachelor of Arts at…
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Sara Z. Meghdari as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Sara Z. Meghdari is an Iranian-American Interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Meghdari holds a MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts and a BA in Communication from the University of…
Sara Z. Meghdari
Parisa Azadi
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Parisa Azadi as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Parisa Azadi is a Canadian visual journalist with a keen interest in history and conflict, memory and displacement. She is based between Tehran, Iran and Dubai where she covers the region, and is bilingual in English and Persian. For…
Rebecca Topakian
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Rebecca Topakian as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Rebecca Topakian graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie of Arles in 2015. With a background in philosophy and geography, she questions notions of identity in her work. By exploring the in-betweens, the mythologies and fictions…
Sanie Bokhari
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Sanié Bokhari as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Sanié Bokhari (she/her) is a mixed media artist born in Lahore, Pakistan. She holds a Bachelor’s in Painting from the National College of Arts, Lahore and an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018….
Michael Hambouz
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Michael Hambouz as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Michael Hambouz (b. Niles, Michigan, 1977) is a multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, multi-instrumentalist musician, and independent curator based in Brooklyn, NY. Solo/two-person exhibitions include Wassaic Project (NY), Future Fairs (NYC), Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC), chashama (NYC), Kayrock (NYC),…
