Marjan Andaroudi

A curator once described her as an activist. Marjan Andaroudi's feminine characters are a mockery of social values and norms. She defamiliarizes our notion of the everyday superficial to reveal the hidden. This is particularly significant in the traditional image of women within the confines of the home.
Marjan creates an environment that surprises and abstractly challenges the established stereotypical image imposed by consumerism, traditionalism, and clichés. If established norms portray women as obedient, meek, mechanical, and motherly, Marjan defies them by presenting the extreme opposite in her monsters.

Marjan strives to rediscover the feminine body, and her preoccupation lies with the meaning of life and identity through the human medium. For her, in a world being emptied from within and humans growing oblivious to the meaning of the individual, all that remains is appearance, and even that is disappearing!
Marjan Andaroudi was born in Tehran in 1980 and received her Master of Arts from Alzahra University. She has exhibited in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, and Middle East.

Exhibitions:

  • 2019: 'Day-Dreamings of A Melancholic Woman', Aknoon Art Gallery
  • 2019: 'Apocalypse Now!', Zie Art Gallery
  • 2014: 'Apocalypse Now!', Mehrva Art Gallery
  • 2010: 'Illustrations', Iran Cartoon Forum
  • 2007: 'Women In Persian Miniatures', Café 78 Café-Art Gallery
  • 2022: 'Ephemere(mortal)', Handprint group exhibition and residency, Emrooz Art Gallery in collaboration with the French Embassy , Isfahan
  • 2022: 'Weird Media, IDMAA Group Digital art Exhibition', Winona State University, Minnesota, USA
  • 2021: 'We don't fall', Wrong Biennale No. 5, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2021: 'The world of lights', Nowon Art Gallery
  • 2021: 'A line on the wall', Nowon Art Gallery
  • 2019: 'General Circumstances', Gozar Art Gallery & Motorkhooneh Art Gallery, Isfahan and Shiraz
  • 2019: 'The Story Goes On', Hess Art Gallery
  • 2015: 'The Museum of Stolen Objects', Curating with Hiresh Kheirabadi, Not Art Gallery and Sayeh Art Gallery
  • 2014: 'Nothingness', Not Art Gallery
  • 2014: 'Modernity', Arasbaran Art Gallery
  • 2014: 'I dreamt about it last night', Curating and participating in a group visual arts exhibition, Mehrva Art Gallery
  • 2014: 'Above: A Festival of Imaginary Events', British Council

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