ZAHRA KOMEYLIAN
MY SOUL IS A CHILD AND MY GOD IN MY SOUL IS A CHILD
TREADING WELL WATER
RED SOUP
WATER OVER MARSH
TWO PASSAGES
EMBODIED PRACTICES OF CARE SERIES: SWEEPINGS-STEEPINGS
GROUNDWORK
NOTHING IS A HOLE IN ITS OWN SKIN
CONTAINER FOR A PRECARIOUS RECORD
PLACES WHERE THINGS HAD BEEN PUT BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN VIOLENTLY DISPLACED, AND PLACES WHERE THINGS FOUND THEIR NATURAL GROUND AND STABILITY
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Zahra Komeylian is an artist and educator based between Montreal and Toronto. Komeylian’s interdisciplinary practice spans works on paper and canvas, sculpture-installation, and performance through a connective logic of expanded drawing. Working with archetypal symbology and personal myth as sites of inquiry, her work attends to the ways collective histories become inscribed on the body-psyche, and how embodied forms of knowledge might resist or exceed systems of representation.
Select exhibitions and presentations include McClure Gallery (upcoming, 2027), Montreal; Toronto Biennial of Art (2024, 2019), Toronto; NARS Foundation (2024), New York; The Plumb (2022), Toronto; Carleton University Art Gallery (2021), Ottawa; SAVAC (2020), Toronto; Asian Art Biennale (2018), Dhaka; Xpace Cultural Centre (2019), Toronto; YYZ Artists’ Outlet (2019), Toronto; CICA Museum (2018), New York; Pirsook Art Gallery (2018), Shiraz; New Media Society (2018), Tehran; and Gardiner Museum (2017), Toronto. Select Residencies and awards include Chalmers Arts Fellowship (2017), SSHRC Master’s Scholarship (2022), Banff Early Career Artist in Residence (2025), and Margaret Priest Graduate Scholarship in drawing (2026).
Zahra Komeylian holds a Master’s of Psychology from Columbia University (2016), and a Master of Teaching from the University of Toronto (2023). She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Guelph (2028).