Shiba Ghaderi Iran

Shiba Ghaderi is a multidisciplinary artist whose poetic, research-driven practice examines the fragile architectures of memory, displacement, and cultural inheritance. Ghaderi constructs evocative visual topographies that navigate the tension between personal history and collective experience. Her compositions often emerge through layered gestures, veiled iconographies, and quiet ruptures—forms that speak to the unstable borders between visibility and erasure.

Born in Iran and currently based in the United States, Ghaderi draws from experiences shaped by migration, evolving notions of home, and the shifting textures of diasporic identity. Her work channels these narratives through an intuitive yet highly discerning material approach, combining delicate mark-making with atmospheric fields of color and surface. The resulting images operate as intimate cartographies, tracing the emotional coordinates of belonging, longing, and remembrance.

Ghaderi’s practice is rooted in an engagement with vernacular histories, oral storytelling traditions, and the silent transmissions that persist across borders and generations. Her works function as sites of resistance against cultural disappearance, offering viewers a space of pause—an invitation to contemplate how identity is assembled, fractured, and continually rewritten.