Aylar Dastgiri (Iran, 1988) is a Tehran based artist working primarily in painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. She graduated in painting at the Tehran School of Fine Arts in 2006 and has a BFA in sculpture from the Tehran University of Art in 2012.
Dastgiri’s work is characterized by an exploration into the diverse layers which compose our environment, bodies, and minds, and how these layers are represented in visual art. Her use of color, contrast, perspective and layering of picture elements creates entrancing imagery and spatial illusions that reference theatrical staging and attempt to place her viewers in the middle of her works. Dastgiri creates her still lifes and landscapes from memory, also lending them a dream-like quality.