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, arts-based research, and critical theory, shaped by her lived experience as an immigrant woman and mother navigating domestic and public spaces. Drawing on intersectional feminist perspectives and diasporic studies, she investigates how the female body, architecture, material culture, and cultural symbols can be reimagined to challenge the power systems that regulate bodies and identities.

Working across performance, video, textiles, sculpture, installation, and experimental technologies, Dashti examines how belonging, memory, displacement, and resistance become inscribed onto bodies, materials, and space, reflecting on migration, geopolitical conflict, and gendered control while engaging broader questions about ecological and post-human relationships.

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