Research/Areas of Interest
Art and Civic Engagement, Socially Engaged Art, Social Practice Art, Intersectional Feminism, Art and Collaboration, cycles of violence, migration and displacement, discrimination, LGBTQIA+ rights, Animal rights, Sexual Assault, violence against women
Education
- MFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, United States, 2012
- BFA, Azad University of Southern Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of, 2005
Biography
Neda Moridpour (she/they) is a Kurdish-Iranian artist, educator, cultural organizer, and co-founder of two artist-activist collaboratives, LOUDER THAN WORDS and [P]Art Collective. Their work as an artist is dedicated to examining cycles of violence that lead to displacement, discrimination, and social and racial inequity. By employing participatory research methodologies and crafting socially engaged projects, they traverse various disciplines and boundaries to nurture mutual acts of care and community building. Their teaching, organizing and artistic practice overlap to establish a dialogical space that enables the visualization of possibilities for social change through developing visual and performance-based interventions, lens-based practices, and bold public discussions that can transform the seemingly quotidian and mundane.
[P]Art Collective's short animation, LA DOLCE VITA, has been screened as an official selection at international film festivals such as the Buffalo International Film Festival and the Burbank International Film Festival in 2020. LOUDER THAN WORDS received the 2014 Women's Caucus for Art International Honor Roll award. Their work has been exhibited in the U.S., Iran, and China and is in the collection of the L.A. County Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, JUSTSEEDS, Printed Matter, and The Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
[P]Art Collective's short animation, LA DOLCE VITA, has been screened as an official selection at international film festivals such as the Buffalo International Film Festival and the Burbank International Film Festival in 2020. LOUDER THAN WORDS received the 2014 Women's Caucus for Art International Honor Roll award. Their work has been exhibited in the U.S., Iran, and China and is in the collection of the L.A. County Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, JUSTSEEDS, Printed Matter, and The Center for the Study of Political Graphics.