Nasim Hantehzadeh (b. 1988, Stillwater, Oklahoma) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. They earned a BA from the University of Tehran Center for Art and Architecture in 2010, a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013, and an MFA from the University of California Los Angeles in 2018. Later this year Hantehzadeh will be included in Queer Histories at Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil, curated by Judia Bryan-Wilson.In 2022, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, presented Hantehzadeh’s first European solo exhibition, Ray of Light. Other recent exhibitions include Halfway to Sanity: Inaugural Group Exhibition, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Nasim Hantehzadeh: Mutates and Grows, Nina Johnson, Miami, FL (2023); The Moth and The Thunderclap, Modern Art, London (2023); Where Cloudy Waters Collide..., Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2022); Solo Booth, The Pit, Frieze Los Angeles, CA (2022); and Orgasmic, Nina Johnson, Miami, FL (2021), amongst others. They have received the Resnick Grant, the D’Arsy Hayman Grant and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. Collections include Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Jorge Pérez, Miami, FL; Dieresis Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico; GAIA Collection, Mexico; Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection, Mexico; and Lynda and Stewart Resnick Collection, USA.