Pantea Karimi is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Jose, California. She worked and studied in Iran and the UK before settling in the U.S. in 2005. Her experiences as an Iranian woman and two-time immigrant have been profoundly shaped by war, religion and geopolitics. This displacement has led her to explore tension and identity politics themes in her art. Simultaneously, she has investigated harmony through the study of botany and geometry, primarily from medieval Iran in Western archives, as these subjects reflect her cultural heritage and family history in Shiraz.