Paasha Motamedi is an Iranian-Indonesian-American artist, raised on Coronado Island, educated in New York City, and currently based in Los Angeles. His multidisciplinary practice—shaped by poetry, cooking, music, and visual arts—took a decisive turn after embracing sobriety in 2015, leading him to explore slow-motion videography, photography, painting, and most recently, fragrance composition.

His poetry explores memory, migration, and sensory experience, offering profound insights into cultural identity and personal history. Intertwining language with vivid imagery, his work reflects his diverse background and multidisciplinary approach. Motamedi's poems have been featured in various exhibitions and publications, resonating with audiences through their exploration of human emotion and inherited histories. This poetic foundation informs the rhythm, abstraction, and sensory depth of his visual work, creating a dialogue between text, image, and material.

His photography, featured in The New York Times, LA Times, and Hyperallergic, evolved from street photography into deeply personal reportage, documenting themes of diaspora, belonging, and autochthony. His paintings incorporate oil stick, acrylic, and unconventional materials such as saffron, black dried lime, pomegranate, sabzi, sand, and fire, applied directly to mass-produced Persian-style rugs. These rugs, repurposed as both medium and critique, interrogate the consumer fetishization of orientalized objects while evoking themes of migration, displacement, and third-culture hybridity.

Recently, Motamedi extended his practice into scent-making, a natural evolution drawing from the fragrances of his Persian and Indonesian childhood kitchen. His perfumes translate the emotional and sensory weight of memory into conceptually rich compositions—blending sabzi, saffron, and limoo amani to evoke gheimeh, beef rendang, and tahdig. Designed to sustain desirability, familiarity, and nostalgia, they accompany his rug works as an invisible yet profound sensory dimension, transporting viewers into his childhood kitchen decades later.

Motamedi continues his work on rugs while honing his curatorial practice, having organized several exhibitions in Los Angeles. His artistic process operates in cycles—intense production balanced by introspective pauses, allowing space for reflection, reinvention, and deeper material exploration. Through his multidisciplinary approach, he challenges fixed categories of identity and engages audiences on a visceral level, creating work that lingers in both senses and memory.