Shahrbanoo Hamzeh is from Iran and came to the US in August 2018 to do an MFA in studio art (painting) at Illinois State University.

Artist Statement:
I think and make art about family and relationship. Although these concepts are universal, the ideas that I have about them and the feelings that I am trying to depict in my paintings have formed in a specific part of the world that I couldn't continue to live there. I believe the fact that I am displaced from my home country probably effects every art piece that I am making. That saying, this body of work is also about displacement.

Find Shahrbanoo’s work at shahrbanoohamzeh.com and on Instagram at @shahrban0u.