Negar Assari-Samimi born in 1970 in Teharn, Iran is an internationally published conceptual artist. Assari-Samimi was the Invited Artist and promotional poster designer for the Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shiism Conference at the University of Oxford in July 2006. She is a member of The World Academy of Arts, Literature, and Media (WAALM), an organization which promotes various forms of art and awards an annual Persian Golden Lioness Award to artists and scholars.
 
Assari-Samimi has created art to highlight peace, religious tolerance, cultural advancement, women's and children's issues, and to inform communities about global-warming and other environmental hazards. Assari-Samimi works with many different media, including sculpting, drawing, painting, photography, and computer graphics, and has been featured in many exhibitions in the United States and Europe. In 2000, she founded the non-profit Art of Iran organization, which is an online community detailing the history of Iranian art, as well as maintaining a Iranian artists database.

Assari-Samimi graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the College of Art and Architecture (Tehran) with a concentration in Educational Visual Communication in 1993. After moving to the United States in 1994, she earned a Master's degree in Visual Information Technology from George Mason University in 1997. She lives near Washington, DC with her husband and three children.