FNDT-127-SU01

Parvin Peivandi makes interdisciplinary artwork by thinking through materials, material culture, the process of making, the affective and emotional potentials of art, and the social and political context within which the art and life of individuals are interwoven. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has shown her works locally and internationally in exhibitions such as solo shows in Chicago at Amazigh Contemporary and in Vancouver at Trapp projects, Sunshine Coast Arts Council, Burrard Arts Foundations and group shows at Expo Chicago's international exposition of contemporary and modern art, Terrain exhibition biennale, Sullivan Gallery in Chicago and Polygon Gallery, Trapp Projects, Surrey Art Gallery, Griffin Projects, and Centre A in Vancouver. She has won awards such as the Illinois emerging artist award and NCECA 2021 Multicultural Award. In 2020, her textile art was nominated for the Brandford/Elliot award for the exellence in Fibre Arts by the Textile Society of America. 

Peivandi's main body of reasearch involves the EDI projects and studying newmaterialist perspectives in art and literature.