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Malekeh Nayiny (born 1955) 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). She lives and works in Paris.

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. She earned a certificate in digital photography from the Spéos Paris Photographic Institute in 1997.

Nayiny's work has appeared in exhibitions in Dubai, Paris, London, Torino, New York City, Houston, Madrid, Cahors, Valencia, Geneva, Verona, Tehran and Portugal. 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.

Her work is included in the collections of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the British Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,

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. Merrell. 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.

External links

• "Artist's web site".

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