Nooshin Hakim Javadi

Nooshin Hakim received her BFA in sculpture from Tehran University, Iran and her MFA from the University of Minnesota. In her work, she explores the concept of freedom and its absence in everyday personal situations. She explores this notion through various mediums, such as social practice, and sculpture, and sound.

Through her research she explore systems that produce inequity and conflict in intersection of oil, carbon democracy, and racial geography. Her interest lies in utilizing these connections and exploring blind spots that may exist within these narratives.

Javadi has received several awards and fellowships including Howard Foundation Fellowship from Brown University 2024, Jerome Fellowship for early-career artists and was a 2018/19 Target Studio for Creative Collaboration Fellow at the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, and a Jerome Fellow for Franconia Sculpture Park. Her interdisciplinary works and performances have been shown at Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany; Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild, California; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey; Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany; Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Wisconsin; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis.