Artist Soraya Sharghi Finds Power in Beauty and Layered Identity

Iranian-American artist Soroya Sharghi creates art as a form of resistance. For her, this means bringing beauty, strength, and imagination into spaces that feel controlled or limited. She describes personal identity as complex and always changing. “Identity is never fixed,” Sharghi says. “It’s layered, constantly shifting.” Her artistic practice is a direct response to this idea. Through her work, she transforms feelings of constraint into expressions of resilience and possibility.