Nima Nikakhlagh

Nima Nikakhlagh is a multidisciplinary artist, native to Iran, who arrived in the United States in 2014. His practice concerns itself with socio-political power dynamics, political resistance, and non-violent action approached in a poetic manner. Notably, he studied photography and film with Abbas Kiarostami over the course of several years and recently received his MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Nima's works have appeared/been performed in Tehran (two consecutive years at the annual Performance Art Festival Thirty Performances, Thirty Artists, Thirty Days 2013, and 2014); San Francisco Art Institute (2016); New York City at the AiOP Festival (Art in Odd Places 2021: NORMAL); Clermont-Ferrand, France at the International VIDEOFORMES Festival (2022), Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery in Torino, Italy (2022), Art Active Gallery in Passau, Germany (2022), Western Massachusetts, and New York. He recently published his first literary-performative book Bodies, Languages, Truths.