“A mathematician with spectacular precision on a mind-twisting mission of perception, like a skilled magician: light ”

Nooshin Rostami

Nooshin Rostami is an artist, creative healer, and the co-founder of Building New Bonds. Born in Tehran, they have lived and worked in New York City since 2009. Rostami explores themes of time, space, and optical illusion through glass, light, shadows, and reflections. Their sculptures, immersive installations, and two-dimensional works are visual metaphors that encourage new ways of perceiving the physical world.

In 2017, they started a “light laboratory” in their studio to study how light interacts with surfaces like mirrors, prisms, and transparent materials. The laboratory became a space for cultivating curiosity and deep contemplation on the nature of reality. They document this process of discovering new perspectives with light through “light drawings”—a technique that captures fleeting moments of light movement on a drawing surface, maps a journey, and archives transient moments of enchantment.

Rostami has been exhibited and performed in the US and internationally since 2010 in venues such as the Queens Museum, Bronx Council of the Arts, Eyebeam, Flux Factory, Jardines de México, Transmitter Gallery, and the California Museum of Photography. They have received multiple fellowships and residencies, including Tifa Working Studios, NARS Foundation, BRIC Media Art, UrbanGlass, and Art Omi.