Aylar Dastgiri (b. 1988 Tehran) is a Tehran based artist working primarily in painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. She graduated in painting at the Tehran School of Fine Arts in 2006 and has a BFA in sculpture from the Tehran University of Art in 2012. Dastgiri’s work is characterised by an exploration into the diverse layers which compose our environment, bodies and minds. Similary she digs deep in how these layers are shaped in visual art through the formulation of a spatial illusion that tries to place the viewer in the middle of her paintings.