Artist: Aphrodite Navab

Aphrodite Navab (born Isfahan, Iran) is an artist of Iranian and Greek descent currently based in New York City. In 2004, she completed an Ed.D in Art Education at Columbia University. She received her B.A. magna cum laude in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College in 1993. Navab’s art has been featured in over 150 exhibitions and is included in a number of collections including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Lowe Art Museum, the Harn Museum of Fine Arts, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Arkansas State University. Her most recent solo exhibition, The Homeling, was held at Johannes Vogt Gallery, NY (Jan.-Feb. 2018). In 2020 she was awarded the Edward E. Elson artist-in-residency at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA. She has been a member of A.I.R. Gallery since 2018 and part of the Executive Board since 2019.