BIOGRAPHY
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NAZAFARIN LOTFI
1984 Born in Mashad, Iran
  Lives and works in Chicago 
   
Training  
2011 Master of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2009 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Painting and Drawing
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2007 Bachelor of Arts, Industrial Design, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
   
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2012 Circles, Tony Wight, Chicago, IL
2011 inbetween, Autumn Space, Chicago, IL
2010 Cut In Cut Out, LG Gallery, Chicago, IL (two person show)
   
Selected Group Exhibitions 
2013   Reading Room, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL 
  Psychosexual, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL 
  Pattern Recognition, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, NY  
2012  Eclectic Coherence, Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL 
  NOT SAFE FOR WORK, Duve, Berlin, Germany
  Such Places, curated by Regin Igloria, Re-Invent Gallery, Lake Forest, IL
  On Making Things Matter, curated by Alberto Aguilar, Southside Hub of Production, Chicago, IL
  The Question of Their Content, curated by Carly Silverman, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Into the surface, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2011 Untitled Document, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Faux-Cult, NoGlobe, Brooklyn, NY
  Guanghamun International Art Festival 2011, Seoul, South Korea
  9 X 12, Ferencvarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
  MFA Show, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Circus Surreal Emerging Arts Festival, Chicago, IL
2010 Nippon Steel Group Show, Chicago, IL
  All the Best, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
  No Place Like Home, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL
  Emerging Illinois Artists, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
  Midnite Snacks, Chicago, IL
2009 Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Women's Day Exhibition. Nuveen Center for International Students, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2007 Group Painting Show, Arte Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2006 Group Drawing Show, Laleh Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
   
Awards  
2012  CAAP Grant, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events of City of Chicago and the Illinois Art Council, Chicago, IL  
2011 Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Visual Arts Competition Finalist, Chicago, IL
2010 New American Paintings, No.93, MFA Annual
  Nominated for Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship
  Incentive Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2009 Visiting Artist Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  Incentive Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  Fadim Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago