Bio

Zeinab Shahidi Marnani (b. 1983 in Isfahan, Iran) lives and works in Tehran and New York City.  Zeinab holds an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art and a Bachelor of Visual Communication from the University of Tehran, school of Fine Arts. 

Zeinab is currently a second year artist in residence at Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Watermill Center, The International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, VA Independent Space for Contemporary Art, Residency Program in Isfahan, Iran; and Akrai Residency in Palazzola Acreide, Italy. She also received the Inga Maren Otto Fellowship at Watermill Center, Art Jameel and Edge of Arabia’s Fellowship at ISCP, Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, and the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship Award at Yale School of Art.

Zeinab’s work has been exhibited internationally at many venues, including Universität der Künste (UDK) in Berlin, the Museum of Moscow, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen;  ALLGOLD at the MoMA PS1 Print Shop in New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Tehran, Azad Art Gallery and Iranian Artists’ Forum in Tehran, as well as Devi Art Foundation in Delhi.