Bio

Niku Kashef is a visual artist and educator living and working in Los Angeles. Her process stems from the desire to question and understand through collection and collaboration. Most of works are paper-based: photographs, monoprints, and paper-based installations dealing with ideas of displacement and the uncanny.

Niku has shown work at the Monterey Museum of Art (Monterey, CA), The Museum of Arts & Crafts-ITAMI (Japan), Symbol Art Gallery (Budapest, Hungary), SCA Gallery (Pomona), Arena 1 (Santa Monica), Gallery 825 (Los Angeles), and the Brand Library Art Galleries (Glendale). Her work is on collection with the Yucun Museum in Suzhou (China), the Hungarian Multicultural Center and in various private collections. She serves on both local and national committees for the arts including the College Art Association's Student and Emerging Professionals Committee, the International Committee for the Women’s Caucus for Art and she is the President of the Southern California chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art (SCWCA). With her MFA in Visual Communication she is currently a Lecturer at California State University, Northridge and a Participating Adjunct at Woodbury University.