Biography
Maryam Hashemi is an Iranian artist living in London .She was born in Birmingham , UK and was brought up in Tehran ,Iran .She moved to UK from 2002 and has been active as a painter and performer. Maryam has been involved in many art projects and has been exhibiting internationally . In 2001 after her first solo exhibition in “ Haft Samar “ gallery in Tehran , she was selected for the “ Ten Iranian Female painters “ exhibition in Brussels showing her work along with other well known Iranian women painters being youngest of them all.
She had her first solo exhibition in UK in 2004 and was invited for an exhibition in the annual Chicago Artist month in 2006 and Edinburgh Iranian Festival in 2008 and had an exhibition at The London Canal Museum in 2009 which will be followed by another one on September 2010.
Maryam has been involved with many public art and community projects and had been commissioned by organizations such as National Trust ,Camden council and British Library for different public art projects.
She usually works from her subconscious and paintings are veiled by many layers and mysterious forms .
