Nooshin Hakim Javadi (born in 1991 in Qazvin, Iran) is an interdisciplinary sculptor, performer, and installation artist who earned a BFA in Sculpture in Tehran and an MFA at the University of Minnesota, with a minor in projection design. Her practice investigates the “material culture of conflict, displacement, and transition,” experimenting with political games, found objects, and organic materials in interactive works. Her accolades include the Jerome Fellowship (2017, 2020) and other significant awards in the contemporary sculpture field. Javadi’s work has an international reach, exhibited in institutions such as the Walker Art Center, the Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg), and Grounds for Sculpture (NJ). Major installations like “Fossilized Past” and “Iran Liberation Dart Game” translate themes such as environmental racism, carbon democracy, and cultural diplomacy into poetic, participatory forms. Since 2021 she has been teaching art and sculpture at the University of Notre Dame, and beginning in 2025 she will join the faculty of the Stamps School of Art & Design (University of Michigan). Her research is an invitation to collective exploration of global and personal themes, through relational spaces and shared processes.
