Yasmin - Shaghayegh- Noorbakhsh is a Persian-British London based artist working across painting, sculpture and installation. Her projects are research based and inspired by socio-cultural beliefs and historical events. She has a particular interest in selective perception and how our understanding of events can be affected by media bias, personal and cultural projection, assumption and censorship. She examines our consumption of images and information and depicts the erasure of events and objects and how they can lose their complexity and origin when looked at through certain constructs or agendas. She borrows cultural and historical signifiers and fuses them with elements of contemporary practice to create a strong sense of friction and collision. As a female artist and a member of the Iranian diaspora, Yasmin’s practice is strongly infused with the theme of hybrid identity and its associated uncertainty. There is a constant questioning at the core of her practice. Her multifaceted layers, interweaving diverse motifs and complex surfaces, depict the state of constantly existing between two spaces; between the known and unknown; the pleasant, and unpleasant; the West and the East and how sometimes these intersect and become intertwined.
Yasmin graduated in 2022 from City & Guilds of London Art school with a distinction for her MA in Fine art and was the recipient of the outstanding critical engagement prize 2022. She has been shortlisted for different prizes such as Combat ArtPrize 2024 at Giovani Fattori museum Italy, Zabludowicz Collection Mother Art prize 2022, Brixton art prize 2022, and Barbican Art trust Open 2022. Yasmin has been selected finalist for different collective shows such as Human Perspective 2021 at Cambridge University, ReA Art Fair Milan 2023, Art on the post card 2023 and 2024 and Fair Art Fair for The Auction Collective, . She was the co-curator and exhibiting artist for a group project/residency called ‘Corpus’ in collaboration with Hypha Studios in London July 2023.
Education
MA Painting , Royal College of Art, 2026
MA Fine art, City and Guilds of London Art School, 2020-2022
HNC Fine art; Kensington and Chelsea College of Art, London, 2019
BA Hons Interior Design; Kingston University, London, 2012
Shortlisted/prizes
Sumac Space short list artist, Berlin ,2024
Combat Art Prize finalist, Fattori Museum, Livorno, Italy, 2024
Bath Open Art Prize finalist, 2023
ReA Art Fair Milan, selected Artist, 2023
Hypha Studios Residency winner, 2023
Mother Art Prize finalist, Zabludowicz Collection, 2022
Artworks Open, finalist Bagtrust, 2022
FairArtFair x The Auction collective, selected Artist, 2022
City & Guilds Outstanding critical engagement prize, 2022
Brixton art prize finalist , 2022
Human perspective, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, 2021
Selected Exhibitions
Upcoming:
‘Beyond the prize’ Mall galleries, London 16-26 April 2025
Previous Exhibitions:
‘Combat Art Prize’, Fattori Museum, Livorno, Italy, Sep-Oct 2024
‘The Universe within’ Copeland gallery, Peckham, London 19-22 Sep 2024
‘Stance’, Art Bypass Gallery, London 13-23 June 2024
‘Art on the post card’, The Bomb factory, Covent Garden, London, 5th March 2024
‘In search of peace and love amongst the flowers’, OXO Tower Wharf, London, 15-19th Nov 2023
‘Dump 01’, Greatorex Street Gallery, London, 24-29 Oct 2023
‘Bath Open Art Prize’, 44AD Artspace, Bath, 12-28 Oct 2023
‘ReA Milan 2023’ , Milan, 12- 15 Oct 2023
‘Crawl Space’, Crypt Gallery, London, 29-30 Sep 2023
‘The Anxiety Of Interdisciplinarity 2.0’, ARB , University of Cambridge, 25 Sep- 17 Nov 2023
The Studio Show, Barry Till gallery, London 6-28th Sep 2023
Heat, RuptureXIBIT Gallery, London 22-26th August 2023
7 Artist 7 Stratton, London Mayfair, 15thJune-7th July 2023
Corpus, Hypha Farringdon, London, 16June- 16th July 2023
Mother Art Prize, Zabludowicz Collection, London, 30March-25June 2023
Inspirational Women artists, God’s House Tower, Sothampton, 10th March-23rd April 2023
Art on the post card’, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, March 2023
‘Artworks Open’, Bagtrust, London 3-11th Dec 2022
FairArtFair x The Auction collective, Online Auction 7-28th Oct 2022
‘The MA Final Show’, City and Guilds of London Art School, Sep 2022
‘Brixton Art Prize’, DnBrixton, London, July 2022
‘The Interim Show’, City and Guilds Of London Art School, March 2022
‘Human Perspective’, University of Cambridge, October 2021
‘Interruption’, Espacio Gallery, London , June 2021
‘Behind closed doors’, www.mfam2020.com, July 2020
'Final Show' , Hortensia Gallery, London, June 2019
'Platform 22' , Leyden Gallery, London, May 2019
'Above the ballet school', Hortensia Gallery, London, March 2019
Press:
Atrsted 99 Future Blue Chip Artists 2023 edition; https://www.opencall.artsted.com/product-page/99-future-blue-chip-artists