Fereshteh

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http://fereshteh.net

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Fereshteh Toosi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been
shown at Groupe Intervention Vidéo in Montréal, Transformer Gallery in
Washington DC, Art in General in New York, Urban Institute for
Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Space 1026 in Philadelphia and the
Boston Center for the Arts. She uses cultural icons to explore current
events and popular mythologies through work in video, sound,
performance, and public intervention. Fereshteh is the recipient of
grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts, and residencies at the Experimental Sound Studio,
the Experimental Television Center, Virginia Center for the Creative
Arts and the Berwick Research Institute.

Fereshteh received a BA from Oberlin College and worked in Japan for
two years before completing her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University's
School of Art. She has taught media art in Maryland and
Pennsylvania, and was the Faculty Fellow in Arts and
Civic Engagement at Syracuse University before joining the
New Millennium Studies program at Columbia College Chicago.
You may find samples of her work at http://fereshteh.net

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