"Meet the Artist" with Hoora Mirabzadeh

On Thursday, November 13, we welcome Hoora Mirabzadeh to “Meet the Artist” night at CPW. Hoora will share, in story form, her experiences after migrating to the United States and how this life-changing journey has shaped both her life and her artistic practice. She will discuss the creation of four projects based on her lived experiences, spanning from the day she arrived in the U.S. until the present. These projects are collectively titled The Echoes of Miles, each reflecting a different aspect of the personal and emotional realities she navigated as a migrant. Hoora will share how these experiences influenced her use of photography, video, installation, performance, and personal notes in her work, transforming intimate moments into immersive visual narratives. This event will be live-streamed on CPW’s YouTube page at 6pm.

Join us every Thursday evening at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. “Meet the Artist” allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW’s gallery at 25 Dederick Street in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served. “Meet the Artist” is made possible by a generous grant from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.

Hoora Mirabzadeh is an Iranian lens-based artist and storyteller whose work includes photography, video, poetry, performance, and installation, exploring themes of survival, vulnerability, and the quiet, difficult effort of holding herself together when everything feels like it’s falling apart. Her deeply autobiographical practice reflects her lived experiences as a migrant woman, spouse, and mother, navigating displacement, emotional distance, and the instability of language and identity.

Through the steady act of making—word by word, image by image—she places herself at the center of each project, confronting what was once hidden and giving form to emotions not yet named.

Hoora has exhibited her recent projects at the University Art Museum, Albany, NY, and her work has been recognized for its poetic engagement with personal histories, creating dialogue between private memory and collective experience, and exploring how migration produces both presence and absence simultaneously.

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