Bay Area artist Ali Dadgar works in painting, experimental printmaking, digital photography, and performance. He explores various processes and techniques with a variety of objects and surfaces in order to reflect on and transform how meaning, function and value are created.

Born in Iran, Dadgar immigrated to the United States in 1978. A member of the Berkeley-based theater company Darvag since 1988, Dadgar collaborates with numerous visual and performing artists in the Bay Area. He is currently in the graduate Art Practice program at UC Berkeley.