Shirin Salehi

(she/her) is an Iranian visual artist, art educator, and translator living and working in Madrid. With an interdisciplinary body of work that explores media such as printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and artist’s books, Shirin Salehi’s practice investigates the poetic dimension of language, focusing on ideas such as illegible writing, erased matter, and hiddenness in images. Trained in printmaking, her work delves into the nuances of time and imprint, exploring both within language itself. She has been an artist in residence at the Academy of Spain in Rome (2021), the Academy of France in Madrid (2014), and Fondazione Il Bisonte in Florence (2016). In 2022 she was nominated for The Queen Sonja Print Award in Norway. In her commitment to social issues, she has been combining her artistic practice and teaching with the work of an interpreter and mediator for Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers and refugees since 2020.