About

Katayoun Bahrami is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Los Angeles. Her practice examines the relationship between women’s bodies and the political, social, and religious boundaries that shape identity, visibility, and agency. Drawing from her experiences of living in Iran and migration, Bahrami explores the body as both subject and site of memory, resistance, and transformation.

Working across textiles, installation, video, photography, and mixed media, she creates layered works that investigate themes of displacement, belonging, resilience, and erasure. Textile and fiber processes play a central role in her practice, serving as both material and metaphor for labor, memory, care, and acts of resistance. Through immersive environments and material experimentation, her work addresses the tensions between visibility and concealment, personal and collective histories, and the complexities of women’s lived experiences.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Broad Art Center in Los Angeles, the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco, LoosenArt Gallery in Rome, and the Surface Design Association Juried Exhibition in Newberg, Oregon.

Born in Tehran, Bahrami received her BFA from the University of Science and Culture in Iran, an MA in Arts and Cultural Management with a concentration in Museum Studies from Michigan State University, and both an MFA and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts.