Golnar Adili is a mixed media artist with a focus on diasporic identity. She holds a Master’s degree in architecture from the University of Michigan and has attended residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation for the Arts in Bellagio, Italy, Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation for the Arts, Lower East Side Printshop, Women’sStudio Workshop, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace among others.
Some of the venues Adili has shown her work include, Victoria and Albert Museum, Craft and Folk Art Museum LA, Cue Art Foundation, International Print Center NY, and the Lower East Side Printshop. Some of the grants she has received include the Pollock Krasner Foundation grant, the NYFA Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books, and the Jerome Hill Finalist Grant.
Adili is very interested in redefining the book form since her residency at the Center for Book Arts in 2017 and has editioned multiple artist books collected by the Library of Congress, Rutgers University, Yale University, and University of Michigan among other special collections.
