Golnar Adili is a mixed media artist, educator, and designer with a focus on diasporic identity. She holds a Master’s degree in architecture and has attended residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation for the Arts in Bellagio, Italy, The Center for Book Arts, NY, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace among others.

Some of the venues Adili has shown her work include, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Cue Art Foundation, NY, and International Print Center, NY. Some of the grants she has received include the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and the NYFA Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Parsons School of Design, Yale University, and Harvard University, are a few collections Adili’s Artist Books live in.

Artist Statement

Art is my key to understanding the current underlying my identity and the world through a deconstruction and reconstruction of past traumas. In this ultimately healing process of revisiting and reshaping memory, I have infused my practice with play, inspired by how my child observes and archives the world.
Forgetting and relearning both English and Persian multiple times has made language a fascinating reference in my work. Persian poetry, as well as biographical text investigating a landscape of longing, have provided a valuable context for examining language formally. In doing so, I use architecture, book arts, and installation to distort and blur the lines between design, craft, and fine art.