Creative practice

Travel + Cultural Exchange

Travel becomes research — drawing, language, fashion research and friendship across cultures.

Moving between Tehran, Los Angeles and beyond, travel feeds artmaking, performance, learning and community.

Installation · 2013

Legacy Crates

Shulamit Gallery · Los Angeles

Artist

Exhibition · 2026

B-LA-M

Torrance Art Museum

Participating artist

Film · 2013 · 2017

The Traveler / Mosafer / مسافر

Film · Public credits

Maryam (actor) · Co-producer · Art director · Set decorator

Civic archive · 2017

Los Angeles: A City of Sanctuary

LAX · ACLU of Southern California

Publicly documented family member and participant

PBS · Artbound

The Legacy Crates

PBS SoCal · Meher McArthur · March 22, 2013

Fleeing the Rose Garden: Marjan K. Vayghan Creates Safe Spaces in Los Angeles

Torrance Art Museum

B-LA-M · Gallery Two

Torrance Art Museum

Institutional press release

Marjan Vayghan · Filmography

ACLU SoCal · February 3, 2017

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti: “We are a city of sanctuary…”

Art + Public Art Nature + Care Curation + Collecting

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