Artist Bio
Maryam Faridani is an Iranian artist currently living in Chicago. By using moving images, installations and performance, she tries to explore how the given technical systems today leads to creation and maintenance of a particular set of social conditions as the environment of that system.

Faridani received the MacDowell Fellowship in 2023 and the Define American Fellowship in 2020. She was named as one of the 2022 Breakout Artists of Chicago in NewCity Magazine. She received her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019 and holds a B.F.A. in Theater from the Art University of Tehran.