Nahid Hagigat, born in Tehran, Iran in 1943, is a pioneering artist whose work bridges Iranian and Western art. After graduating in Fine Arts from Tehran University, Hagigat continued her studies in the United States at New York University in the early 1970s. As she pursued her Ph.D. from New York University in Art, she often exhibited her etchings and photo etchings in Tehran and was instrumental in introducing printmaking to the Iranian art scene. In 2013, Hagigat was included in the seminal show Iran Modern, at the Asia Society in New York and recently in LACMA’s Women Defining Women In Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond, in 2023. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The British Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Tehran Museum of Modern Art, JP Morgan-Chase, New York University, and World Bank in Washington, D.C.The artist lives and works in NYC and is represented by ADVOCARTSY gallery in Los Angeles.