Sepideh T. Dashti is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist, educator, and PhD researcher based in Memphis, Tennessee. Her work operates at the intersection of Visual arts, art education, art-based research and critical theory, shaped by her lived experience as an immigrant woman and mother navigating domestic and public spaces. Through this lens, she explores questions of belonging, diaspora, and embodied space. Drawing on queer feminist perspectives and diasporic studies, Dashti investigates how female body, architecture, domestic materials, and cultural symbols can be reimagined to challenge power systems that regulate bodies and identities.

Working across performance, video, textiles, sculpture, installation, and experimental technologies, her practice reinterprets cultural forms such as Persian embroidery and weaving motifs, traditional architectural structures, and women’s public attire in Iran. By transforming these elements into an installation, Dashti examines how memory, displacement, and resistance become inscribed onto bodies, materials, and architectural space. Her work reflects on migration, geopolitical conflict, and gendered control while engaging broader questions about ecological and post-human relationships between human and non-human worlds.

Dashti is a PhD candidate in Educational Psychology and Research at the University of Memphis and an adjunct instructor in Art & Design. Through her artistic and scholarly work, she aims to create spaces where hope, resistance, grief, and collective belonging can coexist.