Nazgol Haghi

Nazgol Haghi was born in 1985 in Zanjan, Iran. She received her BFA degree from the University of Tehran in 2008 and industrial design degree from the Azad University of Tehran in 2008. After graduating from university, she started working in industry specializing in digital painting. She used this technique in her works up until when she continued her studies in university in 2012. Digital and abstract atmosphere in her paintings gave way to figures using acrylic and oil paints.
In her recent paintings, human figures have taken on puppet forms, as if they are abandoned in time and space and drowned in their thoughts.
Nazgol is currently living in Tehran and working on animations with Ferdos Kids School in Toronto.

SWEET CAPTIVITY
Familiar and unfamiliar spaces, near and far
Strangers yet familiar looks,
I am here in the heart of my home, in a cat called Iran. And I am hooked on my Iranian identity.
I am a prisoner of my home. And this sweet captivity, expands my mind...to the width of the dream and the sea and the greatness of the wish. But the truth is: there is no place to go and not even a place to hide, Iran is everywhere anytime.