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”

EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS
Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi, JoAnna Weil

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson.

OUR STORY

Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.

Thank you to our partners

E M B A S S Y C U L T U R A L H O U S E . C A

London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.