Halo 2 (from the Artist's Shapeshifter series) is based on one of her unique wheel-thrown and hand-carved porcelain flower vertebrae, a work entitled Nine which she made in 2012 and then had scanned.

Yassi Mazandi was born in Tehran, Iran, raised in Great Britain and lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, numerous group exhibitions, as well as a video interview with the BBC in 2013. In 2012, she was in the first group selected by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation for its Artist in Residence program on Captiva Island in Florida. Her work is in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, University of California and in other public and major private collections both in the United States and internationally.

Born in Tehran, Iran
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California