Hadieh Shafie is a visual artist currently based in the United States. Shafie holds an MFA in imaging and digital art from the UMBC and an MFA in painting from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Shafie has been the recipient of grants from the Kress Foundation, RTKL and MSAC Individual Artist Grant (2010 and 2008) and the Mary Sawyers Baker awards from the William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund (2009) and Franz and Virginia Bader Fund (2011) shortlisted for the Jameel Prize (2011) and most recently the Space Program by The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation (2012). Shafie’s work is in a number of public collections which include, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Victoria and Albert Museum; The British Museum, The Farjam Collection, The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).