Neda Moridpour


Neda Moridpour is an artist, educator, organizer, and co-founder of two artist-activist collaboratives, LOUDER THAN WORDS and Art Collective
Her practice crosses disciplines and boundaries to investigate cycles of violence that leads to dislocation, gender and racial inequity while establishing dialogue and mobilizing communities. Through collaboration, her practice transforms the seemingly quotidian and mundane via visual and performative interventions, lens-based practices and bold public roundtables and discussions. Moridpour is a Tisch Faculty Fellow at Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University Her work has been exhibited in the U.S., Iran and China. LOUDER THAN WORDS received the 2014 Women’s Caucus for Art International Honor Roll award. Art Collective won the 1st prize in the Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S., Iran and China and is in the collection of the L.A. County Museum of Art, The Center for the Study of Political Graphics, and was recently exhibited in the Islamic Art Now II: Contemporary Art of the Middle East at the L.A. County Museum of Art
Moridpour holds an MFA in Public Practice from Otis College of Art and Design and currently is a Professor of the Practice in the Media Arts Department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.

Career

, Media Arts Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA, 2018-present
, Print, Paper and Graphic Arts Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA, 2015-2018
Part Time Faculty, Department of Art and Design, UMASS Lowell, MA, USA, 2015

Honors and awards

University of Massachusetts Lowell Artist Merit Award, Lowell, MA, 2016
Center for Cultural Innovation, Investing in Artists Grant in Visual Arts, LA, CA, 2014
Women’s Caucus for Art International Honor Roll, 2014
Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival First Prize Winner, LACMA, LA, CA, 2013
Noor Film Festival Best Animated Film Candidate, LA, CA, 2013
Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival Second Prize Winner, LACMA, LA, CA, 2012
The Watercolor Photo Festival, Tehran, Iran, 2008
The Arbitration Children Photo Festival; Mirror Spirituality, Tehran, Iran, 2008