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

I hold a BA in Theater Set Design and an MA in Painting from Iran, where I also taught theater and visual arts in academic settings and worked in set and costume design for film and television. I later earned my MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). My 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.

My short films, Passport Tale and Flight Among Shadows, have been screened at international 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 my artistic practice, I am deeply interested in participatory and interactive art, interdisciplinary research, and socially engaged media. I continue to create and teach in Baltimore, focusing on projects that foster dialogue and connection through image, space, and sound.