Born in Tehran, Iran in 1979, Ghazaleh Hedayat received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography at Islamic Azad Univeristy, Tehran, and her Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. Hedayat has held solo exhibitions since 2004 in Tehran with Khak Gallery, Silk Road Gallery, and Azad Art Gallery. In 2011, she participated in the Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize in the United Arab Emirates, as well as collective exhibitions in Kuwait, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Iran, England, and Australia. Hedayat was awarded the Murphy Fellowship in 2004, and co-curated ‘After the Revolution: Contemporary Iranian Photography from California and Tehran’ at SFAC and ‘One Day: Narratives from Tehran’ at Intersections for the Arts in San Francisco, California. She presently teaches Photography at Alzahra University’s Fine Arts Department in Tehran, Iran.