Hoda Kashiha (b. 1986, Tehran) is an Iranian painter whose work intertwines everyday life with evocative imagery, merging personal and political narratives through non-linear storytelling, dark humor, and symbolic references from mythology to Malevich and Instagram. She earned a BA in Painting from the University of Tehran (2009) and an MFA from Boston University (2014), returning to Tehran in 2016. Kashiha’s layered compositions, built from digital sketches to canvas, explore gender politics, identity, and fragmentation using tools such as airbrushes, iPads, and stencils, producing visually ambiguous, body-focused, and gender-fluid landscapes.