
Jafar Hejazi was born in 1992, Bojnord, Iran. In 2008 he started his artistic activities with stage acting in theaters. In 2010 he moved to Mashhad for studying a bachelor of Mechanical engineering at IAUM, where his research focused on performance art and the ways that it overlaps with site-specific theater. He started to work as an independent artist in 2012 with ‘Scream & Alef’ a mixed media piece affected by Munch’s The Scream and 2009 Iranian presidential election protests. In 2014 he made a piece named to ‘2nd Law-Entropy’ as an interdisciplinary artist, who studies mechanics but works on art pieces. He started working with the internet as a media in his work: ‘Hair Cutting Ceremony of Jafar’ .