Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Will you eat some fruit?, 8.5 x 11" digital print. Courtesy of the Artist
BEETA BAGHOOLIZADEH
Born in Los Angeles to Iranian immigrant parents, Beeta Baghoolizadeh is a digital multimedia artist and a scholar of modern Iranian history. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is an Associate Research Scholar at the Bijan and Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University. Her art, “Diaspora Letters,” examines the boring and the mundane of everyday life in Iran and features abstracted portraits of her own family members. Baghoolizadeh is currently writing a book, tentatively titled The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran. She serves as the Resident Historian for the Collective for Black Iranians and is the director of the Ajam Digital Archive.
Beeta showed work in a solo exhibition, Diaspora Letters, January-February 2018
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