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Pegah Pasalar
Pegah Pasalar (she/they) is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. Her autoethnographic practice explores such motifs as identity convulsion, cultural memory, fragmentation, and displacement. She holds an MFA in Studio Art, with a concentration in film and video, from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which she attended as a full-merit scholarship awardee. Recent fellowships include the Kala Media Residency Award, Bemis, Yaddo, and BANFF. She has shown her work internationally.