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Mobina Nouri Ph.D
Mobina Nouri (b. Isfahan, Iran) is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work draws on storytelling, mysticism, poetry, and symbolism to explore identity, memory, and transformation. Her multidisciplinary practice blends calligraphy, drawing, installation, and time-based media, creating visual narratives that reflect the emotional and philosophical complexities of displacement and belonging.
Trained in Performing Arts and Design at Tehran University, Nouri later earned a PhD in Creativity Science from City University of London. Her work is deeply informed by the literary and mythological heritage of Persia, reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. Nouri’s art creates a contemplative space where the poetic and the visual converge, an invitation to return to what is sacred, intuitive, and timeless.
Nouri’s practice is rooted in visual storytelling, she inscribes poetry on skin in her Poetography series, maps cosmological rhythms in Cosmic Dance, and reimagines tales from A Thousand and One Nights in layered, symbolic compositions. Her process combines traditional hand techniques with experimental materials, often inviting viewers into ritual-like encounters.
Nouri’s work has received international recognition, including the 2019 Juror’s Choice Award from the San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, the 2020 MOZAIK Future Art Award, and the 2020 “Art Saves Humanity” Juror’s Choice, selected by leading art figures including Jerry Saltz. She served as a juror for MOZAIK’s 2021 “Re-Imagining Democracy” and was an artist-in-residence at Djerassi in 2022.