Ghazal Mojtahedi is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and educator based in Baltimore. Her work explores themes of migration, collective memory, and cultural identity through experimental animation, video installation, and visual storytelling. Drawing from lived experience, she often incorporates familiar objects, archival imagery, and theatrical space to reflect on belonging, longing, and emotional attachment to place.

She holds a BA in Theater Set Design and an MA in Painting from Iran, where she also taught theater and visual arts in academic settings and worked in set and costume design for film and television. She later earned her MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Her thesis project, Hanging Garden and Echo of Home, inspired by the legend of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, received the Kathy O’Dell IMDA Award for Outstanding MFA Thesis and Exhibition and was supported by a research grant from the Dresher Center for the Humanities.

Her short films, Passport Tale and Flight Among Shadows, have been screened at international film festivals across the United States, Europe, and Asia, and are recognized for their hybrid visual language and personal engagement with themes of exile and identity.

Alongside her artistic practice, Mojtahedi is deeply interested in participatory and interactive art, interdisciplinary research, and socially engaged media. She continues to create and teach in Baltimore, focusing on projects that foster dialogue and connection through image, space, and sound. Most recently, she has produced the short film Burial Permit, which has been selected and screened at international film festivals and is currently continuing its festival run.