Mojé Assefjah was born in Teheran in 1970. She lives and works in Munich, Germany. Her family moved to Germany in 1986. She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1992-1998, and was a master student under Prof. Jerry Zeniuk from 1997 on.

In 1999, she was awarded the Advancement Award for Fine Arts of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, as well as the annual scholarship of the DAAD for a residency in Rome.

In 2000, grant of the GOLART-STIFTUNG: Mural painting in Wetterau-Museum, Friedberg, Germany. In 2013, she continued her work in New York, within the framework of the residency program at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York.

Since 1999 Assefjah’s works have been shown regularly in solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the Near East.

Her works are included in numerous private and also public collections in Germany, Switzerland, China, Dubai, Lebanon and Spain, such as:

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Gabriele Münter-and Johannes Eichner Foundation, Munich; Pinakothek der Moderne, München;

Guangdong Art Museum, China; Graphische Sammlung, München;

Colección olorVISUAL, Barcelona, BIZ, Basel, Switzerland.