Yalda Foroughmand Arabi (born in Tehran, Iran) graduated with a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently works as an artist and art educator based in Brooklyn. Yalda’s work brings together symbolic, personal, and imagined visuals into multi-layered narratives that explore the politicized Iranian body and its relationship to the land. Through imaginings of abstracted and alternative realities, she meditates on themes of nature, being, displacement, and freedom. Yalda’s recent work has been shown in group exhibitions at AIR gallery (Brooklyn) as well as in several online and in person exhibits at Paradice Palase (Brooklyn).