Shahram Karimi is a visual artist and film production designer who works and lives in the United States and Germany. He has collaborated with Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari and Mohammad Rasoulof as the key production designer in more than ten films. In 2006 Karimi and Shoja Azari collaborated for the first time on the Stalker Series. In doing so, they created what they call video paintings –Karimi a painter and Azari a filmmaker. Shahram Karimi had numerous one man and group exhibitions in Iran, the United States, and in most countries in Europe. Karimi’s paintings portray the dilemma of the contemporary bicultural Iranian who seeks his historical and personal identity by wedding his personal past with contemporary form. Each one of his paintings relates a fragment of his memories and national history, and his personal past. The misty background of his paintings force the viewer to witness how we see as memory still lives on in us to control, influence and shape our present.