Malekeh Nayiny

Malekeh Nayiny (born 1955)[1][2] is an Iranian-born French artist, known for her digital photo collage and paintings. Her best known series of work is "Updating a Family Album" (1997–present).[3] She lives and works in Paris.[4]

Biography

Malekeh Nayiny was born in 1955 in Tehran, Iran. She received a B.A. degree in fine arts and photography from Syracuse University, continuing her studies at the Parsons School of Design and the International Center of Photography.[4] She earned a certificate in digital photography from the Spéos Paris Photographic Institute in 1997.[5]

Nayiny's work has appeared in exhibitions in Dubai, Paris, London, Torino, New York City, Houston, Madrid, Cahors, Valencia, Geneva, Verona, Tehran and Portugal.[5] In 2019 her work was included in the exhibition My Iran: Six Women Photographers along with Hengameh Golestan, Newsha Tavakolian, Shadi Ghadirian, Gohar Dashti, and Mitra Tabrizian at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.[2]

Her work is included in the collections of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,[6][7] the British Museum,[8] and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[9]

References
  1. Almarcegui, Patricia (2003). Fantaisies du harem et nouvelles Schéhérazade (in French). Somogy. p. 169. ISBN 978-2-85056-687-5.
  2. "Malekeh Nayiny". Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  3. Payseno, Meridian (2022-11-01). "Misremembering Iran with Malekeh Nayiny". Frieze. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  4. Eigner, Saeb (2010). Art of the Middle East. ISBN 978-1-8589-4500-2.
  5. "Malekeh Nayiny". Kashya Hildebrand gallery.
  6. "Nurse Blanche, from the series, Sketches of a Fractured Song". Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art.
  7. "Red Cloth, from the series, Sketches of a Fractured Song". Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art.
  8. "Malekeh Nayiny". Collections Online | British Museum. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  9. "Malekeh Nayiny". LACMA Collections. Retrieved 10 November 2021.


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