Fatemeh Takhtkeshian is a London-based visual artist, practice-based researcher, curator and educator. Her work moves between painting, drawing, collage and image transfer, with a particular interest in identity, memory, borders, material process and the ways images and objects carry traces of earlier histories.

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She holds a practice-based PhD in Fine Art from Lancaster University, completed in 2017, an MA in Fine Arts (Painting) from Azad University, Tehran, and a BA in Fine Arts (Painting) from the University of Science and Culture, Tehran. Her doctoral research brought archival and historical enquiry into dialogue with studio practice, examining the Tehran Biennials of 1958–1966 alongside questions of identity, cultural policy and artistic production. This research continues through her writing on modern art and exhibition histories in Iran.

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Material processes are central to her artistic research. In projects including The I-Eye: The Multi Layered Identity and Ideal Ego, layering, fragmentation, collage and image transfer are used to explore how identity is constructed through memory, movement and accumulated experience. Her ongoing project Border-less extends these concerns towards borders, displacement and spatial division. Recent work increasingly considers how these material methods might also be used to think about landscape, place and the traces left by movement and change.

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Fatemeh teaches painting, drawing and art history at Morley College London and works as a Creative Workshop Tutor at the University for the Creative Arts. Her teaching brings together practical making, visual research, contemporary art and close engagement with exhibitions and collections.

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In 2018, she founded CISTA ARTS, an interdisciplinary arts organisation supporting artists whose work engages with contemporary social and cultural questions. Alongside her artistic and academic work, she has extensive experience in curating, publishing and art direction.

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Her writing has appeared in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and The Luminary. Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally, including solo presentations at the Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University, and Alexandria Library, Manchester, as well as recent exhibitions in London and Cologne.