Nazafarin Lotfi received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 and her BA from the University of Tehran in 2007. Lotfi is a multi-disciplinary artist who studies how the self and notions of identity formation are understood in relationship to architecture, landscape, space, and place. She explores humanness in relation to nonhuman bodies and places that are defined by practices of map-making and gardening. She is the recipient of the Research and Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix Art Museum’s Contemporary Art Grant, Night Bloom: Grants for Artists, CAAP Grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events of the City of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as Artpace, San Antonio, TX; Regards, Chicago, IL; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; Elmhurst Museum of Art, Elmhurst, IL; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ; The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI; MOCA-Tucson, AZ; among others. Lotfi attended the Artpace International Artist-in-Residence program in Spring 2021. In 2015-16, she was awarded an artist residency from Arts + Public Life and Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture at the University of Chicago. She is currently Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University.

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