Fahimeh Vahdat is an Iranian American installation and performance artist living in the greater Baltimore/DC region. Vahdat’s work focuses on women/human rights violations and prison system in the Middle East and the USA.
Vahdat’s mixed media installations use wooden structure, fabrics, hand-dyed canvases, various printmaking techniques, and large-scale drawings and paintings in both traditional and non-traditional methods.
Vahdat’s work has been exhibited regularly at regional, national, and international level. Fahimeh has received numerous grants, recently from Deutsch Foundation and Maryland Individual Artist. She also was one of the six Baker Artist Award finalist, 2022. Vahdat’s work has been published in several books and reviews, most recently, the Little Patuxent Review magazine.
Fahimeh Vahdat has received her MFA from SMU and currently is a professor and director of VAMP at Howard Community College, Columbia, Maryland.
Fahimeh Vhadat
Gunshot II, from the “Objects of Violence” series
