Summary
Minoosh Zomorodinia is an Iranian-born Bay Area interdisciplinary artist/ educator/ curator whose work explores the relationship between humans, nature and technology. She uses walking as a way to negotiate the boundaries of land, challenge the power of technology as a colonial structure and reimagine our relationship with nature. Her work addresses the natural forces as a resistance and makes visible the emotional and psychological reflections of her environment by photo and video. Zomorodinia has received numerous awards and grants, including the YBCA 100, Kala Art Media Fellowship, the Alternative Exposure Award and completed residencies including Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi Residency, Recology Artist Residency and many more. Zomorodinia is a Co-Chair of Women Eco Artists Dialog and a member of the Program Committee at Berkeley Art Center, SF Camerawork and former Southern Exposures’s Curatorial Council Member. She has exhibited locally and internationally including the Asian Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Pori Art Museum and the Nevada Museum of Art, among others.
Areas of emphasis
- Fine Art
- Photography
- Videography
- Multimedia Art
Publications
- Sam Whiting, The art of leaning against the wind inside an emergency blanket, SF Chronicle, February 5, 2019
- Jonathan Curiel, Forty Years After the Revolution, Iranian-American Artists Look Back, SFWEEKLY, Wed Mar 6th, 2019 3:32pm
- Erin Langner, A New Type of Flâneur Strolls in Search of Humanity, Hyperallergic, March 7, 2018
- Hunger Button Books, Entanglements, Oct, 2022
- Megan Ross,Transition, Rabbit Rabbit, Annual Curated Journal of Artists and Innovators, Big Bad Bettie Press, 2016
- The Altered Landscape, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, 2011
Author
- Ritual and The Feminine, Women Eco Artists Dialog, online Magazine Issue No.8 ’Feminism Now’
- Iran: A Growing Eco Art Movement, Women Eco Artists Dialog, online Magazine Issue No.2, 2012
Education
- MFA New Genres San Francisco Art Institute
- MA Graphic Design Azad University Tehran, Iran
- BFA Photography Azad University Tehran, Iran