Nasim Nasr 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 and personal identity, seeking to establish a symmetry or counterbalance, a form of harmony between the cultural and intellectual separation between West and East. 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 photography, video, performance, sound and 3D objects these works highlight notions of cultural difference as experienced in her past and present homelands.

Most recently Nasr was awarded the prestigious Creative Australia Cité Internationale des Arts studio, Paris/France 2025, during which she will be exhibiting at Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin/Germany. Nasr’s last international presentation was Photo London 2023, prior to which she exhibited in the inaugural Triennial of Asia: We Do Not Dream Alone, Asia Society Museum New York, 2020–2021. Her video Women in Shadow II was a prize winner at the 10th Anniversary Edition, A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival Awards, at the Maison Jean Paul Gaultier and Club de L’Etoile, Paris in 2018. This was the video version of the multidisciplinary performance Women in Shadow II, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney 2018, through the Sherman Centre for Contemporary Ideas. In 2017, Nasr won People’s Choice Award for The William and Winifred Bowness Photography Art Prize, Monash Art Gallery Melbourne. Nasr exhibited at The TarraWarra Biennial 2014: Whisper in My Mask, curated by Natalie King and Djon Mundine at The TarraWarra Museum Victoria.

Nasr’s video work Impulse (2023) was an Official Selection for the 2023 A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival Awards, Paris and was presented at the Adelaide Independent Film Festival 2023, where it won the Best Micro Short Film Award.

Her work has been written about 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, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne; Performance_ Ritual_Document, Macmillan Art Publishing, Sydney; Adam Geczy, Transorientalism in Art, Fashion and Film, Bloomsbury London; Adam Geczy & Mimi Kelly eds, What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives, Power Publications, Sydney.

Nasr’s artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and are collected by the Art Gallery of NSW, Powerhouse Museum, Gene and Brian Sherman Collection, Kathy and Andrew Cameron Collection and Artbank, Sydney; Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra; Lourdes and Michelangelo Samson Collection, Singapore and private collections Australia and worldwide.