Niloufar Salimi

NILOUFAR SALIMI

Niloufar Salimi

Niloufar Salimi (Shiraz, Iran. 1982) is a Visual Artist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She primarily uses drawing and minimal mixed media to form a narrative between certainty and ambiguity.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Salimi’s daily drawing practice has shifted from a more minimal and abstract form to a more visual representational approach. This allowed her once again to follow a conversation between certainty and ambiguity of observation and representation. In most of her works, regardless of the methodology, the idea of drawing is a way of being exposed to what comes.

Salimi completed her MFA at Western University and received a BFA from OCAD University. Salimi is a multiple recipient of Ontario Arts Council Grants. She is currently resides in Toronto. In addition to her studio practice, she works as a Gallery Assistant and Teaching Artist at the Power Plant Contemporary Gallery. Please visit her website.

Recent work by Niloufar

75 Oriole Rd, September 1, 2020, Watercolour on Paper, 22”x30”

75 Oriole Rd, October 9, 2020, Watercolour on Paper, 22”x30”

75 Oriole Rd, August 29, 2020, Watercolour on Paper, 22”x30”

Weaved Braid, 2019, Human Hair on Paper, 4”x7”

The other within 1, 2016, Gampi Paper and one Human Hair Strand, 5”x8”x ó”

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