Negin Fallah Iranian , b. 1985

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    Negin Fallahmoghadami (b. 1985, Iran) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Rome, Italy. Her practice spans painting, drawing, and...

    Negin Fallahmoghadami (b. 1985, Iran) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Rome, Italy. Her practice spans painting, drawing, and printmaking, shaped by academic studies in graphic design, interior design, and printmaking, and deepened by nearly two decades of living and working across cultures.

     

    Drawing from literature, human behavior, and the psychology of inner transformation, her work explores the essential contrasts that define human experience: isolation and belonging, renewal and decay, presence and absence. She understands these tensions not as obstacles but as necessary forces, the very conditions through which growth becomes possible.

     

    Her imagery reflects emotional landscapes where vulnerability meets resilience, hope surfaces through despair, and chaos opens space for clarity. Inspired by the rhythms of nature and the cycles of universal law, day and night, seasonal shifts, desert and sea, she finds in the external world a mirror for our inner lives. Contrast, in her practice, is not conflict. It is a call to awareness.

     

    At the heart of her work is a search for what remains when the familiar falls away: the quiet strength revealed through rupture, the luminous potential awakened when we are cracked open to something new. Through painting, she invites viewers into a shared unfolding, one that connects personal reflection with collective experience, and the particular with the universal.

     

    Her work has been presented internationally, with selected exhibitions including Corner MAXXI, Rome; Casa della Cultura, Rome; Firetti Contemporary, UAE; Espace Saint-Remi, Bordeaux; HUB Kuwait, Kuwait; Iwan Maktabi, Beirut; and 392RMEIL393, Beirut.

     
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    EDUCATION

    2009–2013 BFA in Interior Design | Lebanese International University, Beirut, Lebanon

    2008–2009 Freshman in Interior Design | American University of Dubai, UAE

    2004–2007 Associate of Arts in Graphic Design | Hafez University, Tehran, Iran

    1999–2003 High School Diploma in Graphics | Art School of Shahid Avini, Tehran, Iran

     

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    2025 Roma Art Week | Rome, Italy

    2022 Life is a Dream | Metro al Madina, Beirut, Lebanon

    2018 Glimpse of a Glitter | 392RMEIL393 Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

    2008 In the Eyes of Time | Rastgah Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

     

    GROUP EXHIBITIONS

    2024

    Unstable Realities | Corner MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century, Rome, Italy

     Nowhere, Now Here | Casa della Cultura, Rome, Italy

    Counterproof | Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma / RUFA, Rome, Italy

    Menart Fair, presented by Firetti Contemporary | Paris, France

    2023

    Double troubles | Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma / RUFA, Rome, Italy

    2022

    Eyes, Wide, Shut | Firetti Contemporary, Dubai, UAE

    2021

    Moi nous elles | Espace Saint-Rémi, Bordeaux, France

    2020

    Moi nous elles | Institut Cervantes de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

    Collection & Beyond the Region | Art Scene Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

    2019

    OFF, SITE | Le Gray, Beirut Art Week, Beirut, Lebanon

    Collective Exhibition | 392RMEIL393 Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

    2018

    Creation in Harmony, Live Painting Performance | Iwan Maktabi, Beirut, Lebanon

    Three and a Half | 392RMEIL393 Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

    Abolish Article 153 | HUB Kuwait, Kuwait

    2017

    Women in War | HUB Kuwait, Kuwait

    2016

    Beirut Design Week, Jewelry Design | Innovation Factory, Beirut, Lebanon

    2013

    Souk Berutiyah Exhibition, Cutlery Design | Beirut, Lebanon

    2009

    Manuscript Illumination, collaboration with Mehdi Fallah | Finishing Touch Gallery, Dubai, UAE

    2008

    Manuscript Illumination, collaboration with Gholam Hossein Amirkhani | Saba Cultural House, Tehran, Iran

     

    AWARDS & GRANTS

    2023

    International Prize for Portrait, Seve Ballesteros | Tifo Flag for the Ryder Cup, Rome, Italy

    2017

    Trophy for Female Artists | Women in War, HUB Kuwait, Kuwait

     

    ART FAIRS

    2024

    Menart Fair, presented by Firetti Contemporary | Paris, France

     

    COLLABORATIONS

    2009

    Manuscript Illumination, collaboration with Mehdi Fallah | Finishing Touch Gallery, Dubai, UAE

    2008

    Manuscript Illumination, collaboration with Gholam Hossein Amirkhani | Saba Cultural House, Tehran, Iran

     

    PROFESSIONAL

    2025

    EWA Frauenzentrum | Berlin, Germany

    2019 - 2023

    Art Scene Gallery | Beirut, Lebanon

    2018

    Alserkal Avenue | Dubai, UAE

    2017

    Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture | Beirut, Lebanon

    Museum of Goa | Goa, India