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Moozhan Ahmadzadegan is an artist from the unceded and traditional territory of the Syilx Okanagan people, commonly known as the Okanagan, and currently based on the traditional and unceded lands of the Lekwungen peoples, known today as Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. He received a BFA from the University of British Columbia Okanagan with a Major in Visual Arts and a Minor in Art History and Visual Culture in 2019. His work explores Iranian diasporic and queer themes, most often engaging the mediums of painting, screenprinting, textiles, and more recently installation practices. Through these mediums, he investigates how we respond and engage with the colonial social and cultural structures that shape identity on personal and public scales. Moozhan examines traditional Iranian art such as Persian miniatures, patterns, rugs, architecture, and poetry, and reimagines them through a queer lens. With this, he aims to reinterpret, reimagine, and reconfigure these elements to create new meanings and narratives.