Iman Raad
b. 1979, Iran
Iman Raad (Mashhad, Iran 1979) works across a variety of media, including painting, drawing, embroidery, graphic work and performance lectures. He received his MFA in Painting and Print-making from Yale University (2017), and was the artist in residence at the Queens Museum Studio Program (2018–20). He lives and works in New York City and teaches at The Cooper Union School of Art. Recent exhibitions include Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa at the British Museum, London, UK (2021), Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific at the Centro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago, Chile (2019), the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contem-porary Art at QAGOMA Brisbane, Australia (2018), Standing Still, Lying Down, As If at the Mu-seum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) (2018), and The Flag Art Foundation in New York (2018). He has exhibited with Dastan Gallery in Tehran, and Sargent’s Daughters in New York.