Rex Delafkaran

Rex Delafkaran is an interdisciplinary artist from California, based in Chicago. Delafkaran makes her work through a combination of research and material study, producing sculpture, ceramics, performance, and writing. Through her queer, Iranian, American, and aesthetic lineages she plays with the failure and poetry among bodies, objects, and language.

Delafkaran has exhibited and performed at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, DC; Panoply Performance Lab, NY; Platform Projects, Greece; Satellite Art Fair, FL; and EXPO Chicago, IL, among others. She is a recipient of a Warhol Foundation ‘Wherewithal Research Grant’ and recently awarded the Eldon Danhausen Sculpture Fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Delafkaran holds a degree in Ceramics and Performance from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Bio courtesy of the artist.