Maryam Palizgir is a multidisciplinary Iranian artist and educator whose work explores spatial perception, material manipulation, and the process of making. Blending drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and photography, she investigates how we experience and interpret the spaces we inhabit.
Palizgir examines spatial perspectives in urban architecture as a means of identifying, predicting, and reimagining forms within interconnected environments shaped by human presence. For her, the act of making is as vital as the finished work; each process of deconstruction and reconstruction becomes an opportunity to question how perception is formed and how knowledge is exchanged.
As is well-evidenced in her ongoing art practice, palizgir is invested in the history of painting and photography. Her scenes recall a continuity of artists throughout history who have tackled nature as subject matter and human fragility. These crafted scenes defy the assumed order of ecosystems and unfold as spaces of discovery, where perception and imagination converge.
Working with industrial and reflective materials such as fiberglass mesh, acrylic, and light, Palizgir creates layered sculptural installations that evoke dimensional transitions, ephemerality, and change. Her works invite viewers to look into and through space, activating the artwork through perception.
Palizgir received her MFA from Georgia State University. She has exhibited in solo and group shows across the United States, Iran, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and Germany. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, and Global Voices has interviewed her about the intersections of globalization, identity, and culture in contemporary art. Through installation, drawing, photography, and sculptural painting, Palizgir captures the tensions between tradition and contemporaneity, reality and aspiration, individuality and community, authority and freedom, creating works that invite participation and contemplation.