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Elnaz Javani is an artist and educator who works across textiles, sculpture, and drawing. Her practice delves into personal and cultural memory, often reflecting on her experience of migration and identity.

Javani’s intricate works frequently incorporate traditional textile techniques, exploring how material and process can serve as vehicles for storytelling. Javani has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, and she often addresses themes of displacement, the body, and the intersection of personal and collective histories through the lens of fiber art. Javani holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received the New Artist Society Merit Scholarship, and a BFA from Tehran University of Art.