Biography:

Born in Tehran, Iran 1984

Moved to Adelaide, Australia 2009,
Currently lives and works in Sydney

Since graduating with a Master Visual Arts (Research), University South Australia, 2011, Nasim Nasr’s art practice has sought to comment upon the transience of cultural identities. With an interest in cultural relationships in contemporary society, her artworks have engaged themes of intercultural dialogue and perspective between the historical and contemporary. Using video, photography, performance, 3D objects and sound, these works highlight notions of cultural difference as experienced in her past and present homelands, between West and East.

In March 2024 Nasr won AUSTRALIAN CONTEMPORARY ARTIST OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD from the Art’s Minister Tony Burke and Shadow Art Minister Paul Fletcher at the Paliment House, Canberra. Nasr's latest video work ‘Impulse’ was presented at the 2023 Adelaide Independent Film Festival where it won the best Micro Short Film Award, and was in the official selection at the 2023 A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival Awards in Paris. Nasr wasalso a finalist in this year’s Fisher’s Ghost Art Awards in November in Sydney.

In 2017 Nasr won People’s Choice Award in The William and Winifred Bowness Photography Art Prize, Monash Art Gallery Melbourne, and her Women in Shadow II video documentation won an award at the 10th Anniversary Edition, A Shaded View on Fashion Film, Maison Jean Paul Gaultier and Club De L’Etoile, Paris, France in 2018. Nasr exhibited in the inaugural Triennial of Asia: We Do Not Dream Alone, Asia Society Museum in New York, October 2020–June 2021,her latest solo presentation Impulse at Mars Gallery, Melbourne March-April 2023. She exhibited at Photo London, Somerset House, London in May 2023. Nasr’s latest photograph Impulse (2023) was reproduced on the front cover of ART COLLECTOR magazine in Australia, issue 104.

Her art practice has appeared in major publications—by Professor Anne Marsh, ‘Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia’, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press; ‘Video Void’ by Matthew Perkins ed., Australian Scholarly Publishing and ‘Performance_Ritual_Document’, Macmillan Art Publishing; Adam Geczy, ‘Transorientalism in Art, Fashion and Film’, Bloomsbury London; and Adam Geczy & Mimi Kelly eds, ‘What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives’, Power Publications, Sydney.

Nasim Nasr artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally since 2010 and her works are collected by Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney; Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra; Gene and Brian Sherman Collection, Artbank, Sydney and placed in numerous private collections in Australia and worldwide.