Board Member
The Peace Institute · Since 2024
Lida Sherafatmand is a painter deeply engaged in peace-making and human well-being, weaving her post-graduate studies in International Relations into art that speaks across borders, institutions, and lived experience.
Lida Sherafatmand is a painter highly engaged in society for peace making and people’s well-being. She has integrated her post-graduate studies in International Relations into her art, and often delivers public talks alongside her painting exhibitions. Three books of political science by Cambridge University Press have featured her art on their front covers and cite her work in the context of society.
Official stamps have been issued bearing her paintings in the context of peace — one in Liechtenstein and one in China. Her paintings are also used in hospitals due to their calming presence for patients.
Lida was born in Iran and lived her childhood during wartime. Later, refugee life experience further shaped her understanding of, and commitment to, the betterment of life conditions in the international society. These formative experiences are woven into the fabric of her work, giving it an authenticity and resonance that transcends the purely aesthetic — art as testimony, as bridge, and as a quiet insistence on the possibility of peace.
