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MPS Digital Photography presents photo-based artist Stacy Arezou Mehrfar, an Iranian-American visual artist based in New York City. Mehrfar's photographs, video installations, and photobooks explore the dynamics of belonging and how individuals form meaning through embodied presence in place. Mehrfar has exhibited her works at KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, New York; Les Champs Libres, Rennes, France; TEDxSydney, Australia; and ANU Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. A 2022 Silver List nominee and 2025 LABA Fellow, she has received the Joseph Robert Foundation Grant, a Puffin Foundation Artist Grant, and the Australian Postgraduate Award. She is a Studio Arts resident at the Clemente Center, and has participated in residencies at Interlude Foundation, I-Park Foundation, and the Wassaic Project. Her work has received positive coverage in New Art City, 1000 Words, Collector Daily, L'œil de la Photographie, British Journal of Photography, and The New Yorker. Her most recent monograph, The Moon Belongs to Everyone, was published by GOST Books, London, in 2021. Mehrfar holds an MFA in Photomedia from the University of NSW School of Art and Design, Sydney, Australia, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Arezou, her middle name, means "wish" in Farsi.