Shadia Nilforoush is an Iranian-American artist working with photography, video, performance, and mixed media. Her practice examines womanhood as an inherited, embodied condition shaped by migration, ritual, domestic labor, and motherhood. Through restrained gesture, repetition, and devotional acts, she approaches the body as an archive, carrying care, belief, and cultural memory across generations.

Shadia is the recipient of the Crandall-Cordero Fellowship, the Barbara Bullitt Christian Memorial Award, and was a semi-finalist for the 2020 U.S. Fulbright Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including in New York, Hartford, Boston, and New Orleans. She holds a BFA from the Hite Art Institute at the University of Louisville and an MFA from the University of Connecticut. She is currently based in Louisville, Kentucky.