Shabnam Azar is an Iranian Poet, Journalist, and Media artist, based in London. She studied journalism in Tehran and Media art In Cologne.

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“I Dream to the All Languages in the World”, is her first poetry book which was presented in 2005 by SALES publishing company in Tehran. It won three awards from various festivals and competitions and was a point to concentrating on her second book, ”Any Rain Will Wash It All Not” which was released in 2008 by the same publisher and in the same year it’s nominated for the Woman Poet Award.

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As a critical journalist, she worked with several newspapers and news agencies. After the presidential election in 2009, most people who did not agree with the result of the election started the big demonstration. So it was the beginning of the Repression and arrest of many people, activists, and journalists and was the point, that forced her to leave Iran.

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“Bluefish” is her third book that published in 2011-Paris by Naakojaa Publishing. The main theme of this book goes back to the affection of Iran's happening in general and the experiences of migration in particular. At the same time, she was head of the poem editor section in aforesaid publisher.

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in 2013 she received a memorial statue from the 17th  Literary Festival in Iraq  -Gelawej-.

The last poem book is called “River has no home”. It was released in 2016 by DEED Publishing in Germany.

In 2017 she received a memorial statue from the 12th Gothenburg International Poetry Festival in Sweden.

 

She also started her supplementary study at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2015 and graduated in 2020 with an MFA degree in Media Art

 

The main topics that she works on them are referred to the relationship between surveillance and politics with the condition of contemporary Man in modern societies.

As an artist who works with different mediums such as video art, photography, experimental documentary, and performance she participated in many festivals and exhibitions.