Ainaz Alipour is an Iranian-born artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans textiles, sculpture, digital media, and installation, centering themes of diasporic identity, gendered architectures, and cultural displacement. Alipour holds an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of South Florida, an MA in Animation and Film from Tarbiat Modares University, and a BFA in Printmaking from the Tehran University of Art.

Alipour’s work has been exhibited across the U.S. and internationally in venues such as the Ringling Museum of Art (FL), Vox Populi (PA), IceBox Project Space (PA), Mattie Kelly Art Center (FL), Reverb Gallery (FL), and ROYGBIV Gallery (OH), as well as independent and institutional spaces in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Hormuz, Iran. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include In A Frame Whose Moment، …در قابی که گاهش … at Surel’s Place (ID) and Symptomatic Echoes at Mattie Kelly Art Center (FL).

They have participated in numerous artist residencies and fellowships including MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists Residency (MA), Vermont Studio Center (VT), Surel’s Place (ID), and On::View Artist Residency (GA), all awarded with full funding. Alipour’s work has also been recognized through multiple honors such as the Margaret Miller IRA Award, Best in Show at the 30th Annual Emerald Coast National Juried Exhibition, and awards from SWIFF, the Armstrong Family Fund, and University of South Florida’s Graduate Research Grant.

Their moving image and media work has been selected for screenings at SWIFF (NY), Yellow Hammer Film Festival (AL), First Time Filmmaker Sessions (NY), Encanto Film Festival (MA), and the Athens International Film and Video Festival (OH). Their performances have been staged both in traditional gallery contexts and public urban settings, notably in Tehran.

Curatorial projects include Homescape Borderland at Rochester Contemporary Art Center (NY) and Liminal Wormhole Jazz Spectacular at Carolyn M. Wilson Gallery (FL). Their practice and perspective have been featured in publications and media outlets such as Arts Coast Magazine, Canvas Rebel, Shoutout Miami, and WSLR Community Radio.

Alipour has delivered artist talks and public presentations at institutions including The Ringling Museum of Art, Surel’s Place, and Tehran Sculpture Society. Their artist book and contributions to group exhibition catalogs such as Skyway: A Contemporary Collaboration further expand their hybrid research-practice.

Deeply informed by personal archives, Iranian craft traditions, and critical media theory, Alipour’s work weaves soft resistance into speculative futures, using textiles and technologies to reimagine spatial belonging and transhistorical memory.