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Azadeh Elmizadeh is a visual artist based in Toronto who works between painting and collage. She holds an MFA from the University of Guelph (2020) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from OCAD (2016) and Tehran University (2010). Elmizadeh has exhibited at Birch Contemporary (Toronto, ON), Boarding House Gallery (Guelph, ON), Franz Kaka Gallery (Toronto, ON), and Kamloops Art Gallery (Kamloops, BC). She was the 2020 recipient of the Joseph Plaskett Award for Painting. Elmizadeh’s work examines how contingency, uncertainty, and translation can be strategies used to undermine prescribed cultural boundaries.