Shirin Towfiq

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Website: http://www.shirintowfiq.com

Bio: "Shirin Towfiq, is an Iranian-American artist whose work addresses cultural memory, family histories, legacies of trauma, transnational migration, and translation. Towfiq completed her Bachelor of Arts in Art Practice from the University of California Berkeley in 2016 and a Masters of Fine Arts from Stanford University in 2020. In recent years, Towfiq has presented solo-exhibitions at The Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA; 1078 gallery, Chico, CA; City Gallery, San Diego, CA; and has been included in group exhibitions at Four Freedoms Park, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; The De Young Museum; Minnesota Street Project; SOMArts; San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery; c3artspace, Melbourne, Australia. She has won various awards, such as the Rydell Award in 2024 and the Murphy award in 2020."

Statement: "Looking For A Sign is an assemblage of tea bags stitched together conveying memories, events, and visions of the future. Gathered from a daily ritual of tea-drinking, it constitutes a personal tasseography. Gold threads reference Persian folklore of magic carpets, suggesting journeys across space and time. The translucent quality of the tapestry evokes a window, a portal, or a gestational period.  "