Conceptual Artist | Sculptor | Art Lecturer
Ramin Etemadi-Bozorg (b. 1977, Tehran) is a DC-based conceptual artist working across sculpture, painting, performance, video art, and installation. His work explores compassion—particularly the forms forgotten, censored, or unseen by societal norms. He documents a wide range of realities, from socio-political events to deeply personal, unspoken narratives. These layered perspectives serve as both personal archives and cultural testimonies.
Since earning his BA from the University of Art and Architecture in Iran in 2001, Ramin has played a pioneering role in the development of new media art in Iran, particularly in introducing performance and video art to the country's contemporary art history.
He is an active member of the Iranian Society of Painters, the Iranian Society of Sculptors, and the Iranian Promotion of Visual Arts. His commitment to documenting historical and intimate narratives positions his work as a personal archive and a cultural testimony.
Ramin has presented fourteen solo exhibitions in painting, sculpture, and video art, and performed seventeen original performance art pieces. He has participated in more than seventy group exhibitions, festivals, expos, and biennales in countries including the United States, Iran, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Turkey, Morocco, the UAE, Armenia, and China.