Biography

Yasmin Mawaz-Khan has been an artist and leader all her life. She was born in Los Angeles to an Iranian mother and a Pakistani father. She has lived and studied in Iran, Pakistan, and the United States. She speaks three languages: Farsi, English, Urdu and studied German in high school. She attended Punjab University and received a B.A. in Art History of the Sub-Continent in 1999, and went on to attend UC Santa Cruz where she received another B.A. in Film and Digital Media in 2003.

Yasmin currently lives in San Francisco and works as a video producer and installation artist. She has built large sculptural installations with the Flaming Lotus Girls, received grants for her work on the Fire Blooms project for Ocean Beach, and led collaborations in Taiwan and Holland. She has created and shown many experimental and documentary videos at a variety of galleries and festivals here and abroad.

She is inspired by the process of creation, collaborating with people and seeing a project from concept to completion. Her influences include her diverse background, the community she lives in and her passion for exploring new concepts and methods of representation and interactivity.