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Iranian-born Canadian artist and filmmaker (b. 1970)

Simin Keramati (Persian: سیمین کرامتی; born 1970)^[1] is an Iranian-born Canadian multidisciplinary visual artist and activist.^[2][3] She is primarily known as a painter, video artist, installation artist, and filmmaker.^[4] Keramati lives in Toronto.^[5]

Biography

Simin Keramati was born in 1970 in Tehran, Imperial State of Iran.^[5][6] She attended Islamic Azad University, where she received a B.A.

degree (1995) in English;^[7] and the Tehran University of Art, where she received a M.A. degree (1996) in painting.^[5][6] She moved to Toronto in 2013,^[5] where she attended George Brown College.

Keramati's art work focuses on socio-political topics, identity, and the injustices facing women in Iran.^[1][2] Some of her art contemporaries include Shirin Neshat, Shadi Ghadirian, an