| Simin Keramati | |
| Native Name: | سیمین کرامتی |
| Native Name Lang: | fa |
| Other Names: | Simīn Kirāmatī |
| Birth Place: | Tehran, Imperial State of Iran |
| Alma Mater: | Islamic Azad University, Tehran University of Art, George Brown College |
| Occupation: | Multidisciplinary visual artist |
| Known For: | Painter, video artist, installation artist, filmmaker |
| Website: | Official website |
Simin Keramati (; 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]
Simin Keramati was born in 1970 in Tehran, Imperial State of Iran.[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. She moved to Toronto in 2013, where she attended George Brown College.
Keramati's art work focuses on socio-political topics, identity, and the injustices facing women in Iran. Some of her art contemporaries include Shirin Neshat, Shadi Ghadirian, and Newsha Tavakolian.[8] In 2009, Keramati was part of the group exhibition, Made in Iran, curated by Arianne Levene and Eglantine de Ganay and held at the Asia House, London; other artists in the show included Nazgol Ansarinia, Shirin Aliabadi, Behrouz Rae, Vahid Sharifian, Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, and Arash Hanaei.[9] [10] [11] Her work was part of the group exhibition, Art Brief IV: Iranian Contemporary San Francisco (2018) held at SOMA Arts in San Francisco, created in conjunction with the nonprofit group Moms Against Poverty (MAP).[12]
In September 2022, during the Mahsa Amini protests she helped organize the protest event outside of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and Keramati also created a notable protest poster.
She created the second installment of the PaykanArtCar, unveiled in June 2023.[13] [14] [15]