Leiden, Netherlands
azin.nafarhaghighi@gmail.com
@aznf
- Learning
2023 - 2025 | MA Photography and Society, Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague, Netherlands
2022 - 2023 | MBA, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2009 - 2013 | BFA Photography, Tehran University of Art, Tehran, Iran
- Exhibitions
2025 | As Water Softens Stone, MA Photography and Society Graduation show, KABK, The Hague, NL
2025 | Push, Pull, Shift, Živi Atelje DK, Zagreb, Croatia
2024 | 00:05:59, Paradise (West x KABK), The Hague, Netherlands
2024 | Fragments in Transit, Beetroot Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
2022 | An Imaginary Road Trip in Iran, for UNFPA and German Embassy (Goethe Institute), Tehran, Iran
2018 | Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
2018 | Iran Photo Exhibition, Badguir, Centre Culturel d’Iran, Paris, France
2017 | Iran Année 38, curated by Newsha Tavakolian & Anahita Ghabaian, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
2014 | Encounter, Abi Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 | Moments, Henna Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- Selected Curatorial Practices
2025 | Exhibition Design, “I am Still Here” by Newsha Tavakolian for Phony Wars Exhibition, Argo Factory, Tehran, Iran
2022 | Curator & Project Manager, An Imaginary Road Trip in Iran, UNFPA & German Embassy, Tehran, Iran
2021 | Support Team, HerMap Art Projects, Goethe Institute & BOZAR, Tehran, Iran
2021 | Curator’s Assistant, The Concealed Over the Revealed; Visual Engineering in Persian Painting by Shahryar Hatami, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
2021 | Project Manager & Creative Director, Keno-phobic City Tales, StudioKargah, Biennale Internationale de Design Graphique, Chaumont, France
2016 - 2021 | Studio Manager, Newsha Tavakolian Photography, Tehran, Iran
2019 - 2020 | Curator & Project Manager, Radde Tehran, a curatorial project on the impressions of Tehran in arts & design, Iran
2017 | Curator’s Assistant, Iran, Year 38, Arles Photo Festival, France
2015 | Curator’s Assistant, Towards the Ineffable: A Retrospective for Farideh Lashai, curated by Germano Celant, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran