Biography
Asal Andarzipour is an Iranian-Canadian artist and curator. She identifies as an immigrant settler artist walking in her nomad ancestors’ shoes, which took her to Treaty 6 territory, Amiswaciwâskahikan. Her long journey across the ocean from Tehran to New York and then Alberta continues to inform and form her creative profile. Andarzipour’s practice is mainly focused on visual arts with roots in her design background. Andarzipour’s art is in numerous private collections in the United States, Iran, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Her interdisciplinary approach is manifested in every creative project that she leads.
Andarzipour holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design from the University of Tehran and a Master of Fine Arts from Syracuse University, followed by her second graduate degree in History of Art, Design and Visual Culture from the University of Alberta. She is currently a studio artist at Harcourt House Artist Run Centre. Her artistic career and activism as an Iranian woman in the diaspora are integrated into her daily life.
Artist Statement
“The most authentic source of study for my art is my own lived experience with the internal and external worlds. In my creative process, I channel the deep hopes and fears that I encounter in my dreams and wakefulness. This is possible through non-linear journeys in realms of reality and fantasy and is rendered in a figurative approach. I currently explore themes of personal and collective trauma, and how our bodies are affected by and rebel against injustice. My main mediums are figurative drawing, oil painting and film photography. I also use drawing-based animation to expand my work into the dimension of time.“
– Asal Andarzipour
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© Asal Andarzipour “Conflict”
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© Asal Andarzipour “Could You Repeat That”
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© Asal Andarzipour “Silent and Present Curation at the Bleeding Heart Art Space”