Shirin Towfiq
[Image description: Shirin in front of a white wall, looking off to her left with a content expression on her face. An Iranian-American woman, she has voluminous dark hair and wears a white top.]
Shirin Towfiq is a conceptual artist of Iranian descent who works in textile, photography, installation, performance, and socially engaged art. Her work addresses cultural, communicative, and interpersonal relationships. She received a BA in Practice of Art from UC Berkeley and her MFA from Stanford University. Drawing from her experiences being a second generation immigrant, Towfiq uses traditional crafts to recontextualize commonly held ideas surrounding family, memory, comfort, and self-constructed identity.
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