Born 1989 in Tehran, Iran
Lives and works in Hamburg, Germany

From 2007 to 2013 Simin Jalilian studied art at Soore University in Tehran. In 2016 she moved to Germany, where she continued her studies at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, first under Professor Werner Büttner, and since 2021 as a Master’s student with Professor Rajkamal Kahlon. In 2020 she was awarded the HFBK’s merit scholarship for international students, received the HISCOX Art Prize in 2022, and the Berenberg Cultural Prize in 2024. In 2023/24 her work was featured in the exhibition Dix and the Present at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.