Elizabeth Arzani

Portland, OR

Biography

Elizabeth Arzani is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living and working in Portland, Oregon. As a collector of sorts, her work assembles printmaking and ceramics with language and found ephemera. Guided by paradoxes and the homonyms whole and hole, fragments emphasize absence as presence, locating the unknown with site specificity. Arzani has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and has been granted residencies at Kulturschapp; Walferdange, Luxembourg and New Harmony Clay Project; New Harmony, IN. Arzani has been the recipient of two Career Opportunity Grants from the Oregon Arts Commission with support from the Ford Family Foundation as well as two project grants from the Regional Arts & Culture Council. She has been a member of Carnation Contemporary (Portland, OR) since 2023. Arzani holds an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art and a BFA in Painting and Art Education from the University of North Carolina.
 
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