Mashid Mohadjerin is a visual artist, storyteller, and lecturer based in Belgium, whose work moves between the personal and political, the visible and the unseen. Trained in the arts and shaped by years of working as a documentary photographer, she weaves long-term research into poetic forms—across image, sound, video, text, and performance. 

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Her lens has captured the quiet strength of resistance and the nuanced realities behind global headlines. But for Mashid, to document is not enough. She seeks to unsettle the familiar, to create space for the emotive and the unknowable—those fragments often left outside the frame.

 

In 2013, she returned to deep artistic research, beginning with an exploration of the female body and resistance in the Middle East. Her practice has since evolved into multimedia installations that invite viewers to sit with complexity, discomfort, and multiple truths.

 

Mashid holds a PhD in the Arts from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. Her work has been recognized with international awards, including 1st Prize for Contemporary Issues at World Press Photo and the Author’s Book Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles. She is the author of three books, most recently Riding in Silence & the Crying Dervish (2025), a meditative journey through family history, migration, and reflections on masculinity.

 

Through it all, Mashid remains drawn to the edges—where personal stories meet collective memory, and where art becomes a form of resistance, remembrance, and reimagining.

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