Nilufer Moayeri

Who is Nilufer Moayeri?

Nilufer Moayeri was born in Tehran in 1970. She attended Arts and Art History education in London and France between 1980-1984. She was enrolled at the Painting Department of Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul in 1993 where she completed her Bachelor's degree in Drawing and Traditional Decorative Arts in 1997. Between 2003 - 2004, she attended a Master's program in Painting in Florence, Italy. Since 1998, she heads the Pera Fine Arts Academy Drawing Department and serves as the Art Director of Pera Art Gallery in Istanbul and in Vancouver. Nilufer has organized exhibits for many artists locally and abroad.

She has also designed costumes for several Theatre plays performed in Tiyatro PERA, Istanbul. Recently, she was nominated for Best Costume Design in the 2009 Afife Jale Artistic Awards, Istanbul.

As an artist, Nilufer represents in her work the composition of the elements, excavating them from a historical subconscious and bringing them to a contemporary and cross-cultural daylight. Nilüfer's work has been displayed on numerous group and individual exhibitions both in Istanbul, New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Paris, Florence, Rome, Brussels, Izmir, Ankara and Peking.