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Zeinab Shahidi Marnani’s studio on Pearl Street in Provincetown is dimly lit. In one corner sits a lounge chair with yellow pillows on it. A desk in the middle of the room is covered with clamshells painted with streaks of blue, red, and green. A book of Persian poetry lies on a side table; drawings of the moon cover many surfaces; bouquets of flowers sit in vases beside a printout of an etching of a camera obscura.

Zeinab Shahidi Marnani’s video installation “I will mirror the sun to you, when you’re in the dark.” The Moon said when earth hesitated to spin (2024) marries Persian music and the sound of the wind with views of the sea and sunlight and the moon, combining footage from Iran and Provincetown and transporting you out of the gallery through its blackout viewing box.

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wenty writers and visual artists from eight countries have been selected for the Fine Arts Work Center’s 2023-24 Fellowship program and will spend seven months in the town that inspired generations of creative luminaries like Eugene O’Neill, Jackson Pollock, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Isolation Art from Tehran, Milan and Copenhagen shows that podcast is the perfect medium in a time when we miss hearing each other's voices up close. Marnani uses the sound to create an ambiently beautiful and abstract space where the listener's own thoughts can isolate themselves.

Territorial Challenges is curated by Amirali Ghasemi/Parking Video Library. The program was screened on February 5, 2020, as the closing event of the Fragile Frontiers exhibition at YARAT Contemporary Art Space in Baku, Azerbaijan.

After a six-month hiatus, the Watermill Center’s residency program resumed on Oct. 21 with the arrival of five artists who will enjoy an interlude of safely distanced creativity. They are Regina Parra, who lives in Brazil; Tahir Carl Karmali, who was brought up in Kenya and is based in Brooklyn; Paige Mazurek of Portland, Me., Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, who divides her time between Iran and New York City.

Zeinab Shahidi Marnani was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1983 and currently lives and works in Tehran and New York. She has a bachelor of visual communication from Tehran University, and holds an MFA in sculpture from Yale School of Art. She was a recipient of Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, and DutchCulture’s Shared Cultural Heritage Matching Fund in 2019. Zeinab was an Inga Maren Otto Fellow at The Watermill Center in 2016.

The October artists-in-residence include Brazilian visual artist Regina Parra, Kenyan visual artist Tahir Karmali, American photographer-cinematographer Paige Mazurek, Iranian photographer-cinematographer Zeinab Shahidi Marnani and visual artist Claire Watson

Beginning in late October, photographer Paige Mazurek (2007 YoungArts Winner in Photography) will be participating in a month-long mentorship residency at The Watermill Center outside of New York City. Working with Watermill alumna, Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, a text and video artist working in time-based media, Mazurek will be developing a new series of works.

On Saturday, November 21, Watermill Center Artists-in-Residence Tahir Carl Karmali, Paige Mazurek, Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, Regina Parra and Claire Watson will welcome the community into their creative space where they will speak about their latest creations as part of In Process @ The Watermill Center.

Beginning in late October, photographer Paige Mazurek (2007 YoungArts Winner in Photography) will be participating in a month-long mentorship residency at The Watermill Center outside of New York City. Working with Watermill alumna, Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, a text and video artist working in time-based media, Mazurek will be developing a new series of works.

انتشار کتاب «خط بِنایی– پردازش و گشایش رمز» نوشته زینب شهیدی مارنانی از سوی انتشارات نظر، با امکان حصول شناختی جامع از خصوصیات و زیبایی‌های خط-‌نوشته‌های کتیبه‌های تاریخی امکان روخوانی کتیبه‌ها را برای مخاطبان عادی ممکن می‌کند.

During her artist residency, Zeinab Shahidi Marnani will continue to work on histories, an experimental video documentary project in which she conducts a series of interviews with her relatives. She collects contrary narratives of those who claim to know the story about the origin of her last name "Martyr of Marnan", which refers to an incident that happened in the late 19th century in Isfahan around the constitutional revolution of Iran.

The Watermill Center, an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities, will welcome its first group of Fall 2016 Artists-in-Residency. Alvaro Restrepo and his dance troupe, El Colegio Del Cuerpo, from Colombia, Noel McKenna from Australia, Tori Wranes from Norway, and Zeinab Shahidi Marani from Iran consist of the first group to be welcomed to the Center for the autumn season.

Zeinab Shahidi Marnani is an Iranian artist currently in residence in Brooklyn at the International Studio and Curatorial Program. The majority of her art focuses on exploring the concepts of time and memory. Here, we sit with Ms. Shahidi and discuss her work and the thought process behind some of her explorations.

Art Jameel, Edge of Arabia (a nonprofit based in London) and the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York have announced the participants selected for their second annual artist residency program in New York: Ayman Yossri Daydban, Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, and Sara Ouhaddou.

Spring open studios is a free three-day event when the public is invited to view contemporary art at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn. Twenty-eight innovative artists are currently in residence, including individuals from 17 countries in Asia, Europe, and North and South America, who will present work in their studios.

Art Jameel, PARTNERED with Edge of Arabia, ON their second annual artist residency program with the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York. From the over 200 applications submitted by artists living and working across the Middle East and North Africa, three artists were selected: Ayman Yossri Daydban (Palestine/Saudi Arabia), Zeinab Shahidi Marnani (Iran), and Sara Ouhaddou (Morocco).

Earlier this month, The Watermill Center announced that Iranian filmmaker Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, Mexican-born visual artist G.T. Pellizzi, and Chilean painter Basco Vazko have been selected as the inaugural recipients of The Center’s Inga Maren Otto Fellowship.

Art Jameel, in partnership with Edge of Arabia, is pleased to announce the participants of their second annual artist residency program with the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York. From the over 200 applications submitted by artists living and working across the Middle East and North Africa, three artists were selected: Ayman Yossri Daydban (Palestine / Saudi Arabia), Zeinab Shahidi Marnani (Iran), and Sara Ouhaddou (Morocco).

Zeinab Shahidi Marnani (b. 1983 in Iran, lives and works in Tehran) is a conceptual artist. She holds a MFA in sculpture from Yale school of art. She was awarded the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship to travel to Tehran and New York in order to make a documentary video.

Khat keshi : type through our dimension is a group exhibition of Iranian artists exploring the possibilities of experimental typography. It brings together the work of eight artists and provides insight into Iranian typography.

Square Kufic is used to create geometric patterns by alternating glazed tiles with plain tiles. It can sometimes be referred to with the Farsi word banna'i. The intention of ’KufiBox’ to entice the viewer to piece together the meaning of a text, which isa poem chosen by Hafez.