Beizar Aradini was born in Mardin, Kurdistan and immigrated with her family to Nashville, Tennessee in 1992. Her work unravels her family’s story as immigrants and examines cultural displacement and collective memory through storytelling. Aradini’s artwork has been featured in exhibitions at the Frist Art Museum, Tennessee State Museum, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art and galleries throughout the United States, including Woman Made Gallery, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Chautauqua Institution, Julia Martin Gallery and many more. Aradini was awarded “Best in Show” in the Best of Tennessee Craft 2021 Biennial at Tennessee State Museum and was selected as South Arts 2023 Tennessee State Fellow. She has been awarded scholarships and grants that have helped propel her career from Tennessee Craft, South Arts, Metro Arts Commission, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Ox-Bow Merit Scholarship, and Wilson/Livingstone Graduate Fellowship. Currently, Aradini is living and working in Chicago.