Afarin Rahmanifar, born in Tehran, Iran, is an Iranian American Artist/Educator/ Curator based in Connecticut. She holds her Master of Fine Arts degree from University of Connecticut and is currently Associate Professor at Eastern Connecticut State University, Art & Art History Department. She specializes in painting, mixed media, installation, printmaking, animated motion picture film, and Persian miniature.
Rahmanifar’s artistic vision originates from intersecting points of Eastern and Western culture. She understands her journey toward her present identity as an Iranian American woman through these concepts: “separation” from what one has been a part of and “belonging” to that which is different - “appearing” then “disappearing” then “reappearing” again. The intellectual and emotional parts of the self are changed through the act of Separation; the changed self belongs both to the past and to the present.
