About Me

Pooneh Nik is an Iranian-born artist based in the United States.

She works across drawing and digital media, creating images that sit somewhere between what is seen and what is hidden. There is often a quiet tension in her work, where silence carries as much meaning as the image itself. Her ideas come from memory, fragments of mythology, and the realities that have shaped her.

The human figure, especially the female form, appears often in her work. Not as something to simply look at, but as a space where identity, erasure, resilience, and change can unfold through symbols rather than direct statements.

Her images don’t try to explain everything. They feel more like fragments, inviting the viewer to slow down, look closer, and notice what might not be visible at first.

She began her artistic path in Iran and later continued it in the United States. She studied 3D modeling and animation at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. That background still shapes the way she thinks about form and space, even when her work stays rooted in drawing.

For her, art isn’t about explaining.
It’s a quiet way of holding on to what shouldn’t disappear.