B. 1983 Tehran, Iran

Peyman Shafieezadeh graduated with a degree in painting from Azad University’s Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tehran, and is now currently based in London. He has held six solo shows and participated in more than forty group exhibitions, which include showing at Hinterland Gallery (Vienna), The Red Bull House of Arts (Detroit), Triumph Gallery (Moscow), and SOMArts Cultural Center (San Francisco). Shafieezadeh has also exhibited his work at the 8th Tehran National Sculpture Biennial in 2020, the 4th Guan Lan International Print Biennial in Shenzhen, China, in 2013, and the 5th Beijing International Art Biennale in 2012. He has also been conferred several awards, including the first prize from the Tehran National Sculpture Biennale. In his work, he probes the friction that emerges between different belief systems and offers a speculation of a middle space where contemplation is afforded and that escapes such a trapping. In tandem with the exhibition’s probe, the artist’s approach here encourages not only a tracing but also a negotiation of paradoxes.