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Zahra Komeylian is an Iranian-Canadian artist and educator based between Toronto and Montreal. Her interdisciplinary practice spans works on paper and canvas, sculpture-installation, and performance, linked through an expanded drawing logic. Komeylian’s experimental drawing practice traces intuition, embodied knowledge, and affect through rupture and its psychic and political afterlives. Her work attends to the ways sociopolitical 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).