Shirin Towfiq is an interdisciplinary artist working with an emphasis on installation, sculptural photography, textiles, and printmaking. Drawing from her positionality as a second-generation Iranian refugee, her artwork explores the complexities of belonging and placemaking through archival research and intergenerational communication with a diasporic lens. She focuses on everyday practices of belonging and visual culture, as produced by migrants, and reflecting on the traces of diaspora to investigate cultural memory, history, and temporality. She earned a BA in the Practice of Art from UC Berkeley, an MFA from Stanford University and is currently pursuing her PhD in Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz.  http://www.shirintowfiq.com