Raheleh Filsoofi, a collector of soil and sound, is an itinerant artist and community advocate. Filsoofi’s work revolves around themes of movement, immigration, and social activism. Clay and sound serve as her primary expressive mediums, enabling her to create diverse narratives through multimedia installations and immersive sound performances. Her art disrupts the borders that exist between us and seeks a more inclusive world, illuminating and challenging policies and politics.

Filsoofi has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent and upcoming exhibitions and performances include works at the Nasher Museum of Art (Durham, NC, 2026), the Frist Art Museum (Nashville, TN, 2026), Telfair Museums (Savannah, GA, 2025), the Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, SC, 2024), Untitled Art (Miami Beach, FL, 2024), and Sharjah Biennial 15 (Sharjah, UAE, 2023). She is the curator of the inaugural Clay Performance program at National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) 2026, establishing a new performance-focused initiative within the conference.

She is the 2025 recipient of the NCECA Innovator Award, the 2025 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Art Projects Grant, the 2023 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Fellowship, the 2022 winner of the 1858 Contemporary Southern Art Award, and the 2021 recipient of the Southern Prize Tennessee State Fellowship. She is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics in the Department of Art at Vanderbilt University and holds a secondary appointment at the Blair School of Music. Filsoofi received her MFA in Fine Arts from Florida Atlantic University and a BFA in Ceramics from Al-Zahra University in Tehran, Iran.