Nasrin Navab

Iranian born artist, activist, architect, and urban designer working on social and spatial justice projects. Her consciousness was shaped as a student activist and political prisoner through the fires of the 1979 Iranian revolution. Her work combines her design skills in painting, installation, architecture, and planning to create a unique artistic language. She is a member of the Iranian Women Research Foundation and the transnational art collective “Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here.” Her recent collaborative art exhibitions with her sister Nahid Navab have focused on freedom of knowledge and speech, women’s right, war, immigration, and social identity. Navab is currently a visiting artist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she curated two collaborative exhibitions with formerly incarcerated artists and different immigrant communities.