Katayoun Afrooz is an Iranian visual artist and filmmaker. Katayoun undertook her formal education and training in film and visual arts in the United States. She holds a degree in both Cinema and visual arts from Columbia college school of film.
Furthermore, she studied filmmaking and video art under critically-acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami.
She also studied western philosophy at a private school in Tehran.

Spending half of her life in the east and half in the west, Katayoun main concern is human identity, human experience and above all the notion of one ‘s self. which she is exploring through moving images.