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Zahra Komeylian is an artist and educator currently based between Toronto and Montreal, Canada. Her practice is grounded in self-reflexive processes, often resulting in conjoint works of performance art, sculpture-installation and drawing. Komeylian’s research grapples with the unsayable aspects of subjectivity, looking to personal myth, archetypal symbology, and embodied knowledge as sites of inquiry. She is interested in the transmutation and transience of symbols emerging from the personal and collective unconscious. Considering what it means to make art outside conventions of aesthetic dictation, Komeylian’s experimental drawing practice focuses on the marking of intuition, body knowledge, and embodied affect from a politicized psychoanalytic approach. Her social practice spans workshops, public intervention, performance, and teaching.

Zahra Komeylian’s studio practice is shaped by an interdisciplinary approach. She holds an MA in Psychology from Columbia University (2017) and Master of Teaching from the University of Toronto (2023). She is a recipient of the Ontario Arts Council Chalmers Fellowship for emerging artists (2017) and has presented work both locally and internationally, including at NARS Foundation (2023), NY; The Plumb (2022), Toronto; Carleton University Art Gallery (2020), Ottawa; SAVAC (2020), Toronto; Toronto Biennial of Art (2019, 2024); Asian Art Biennale (2018), Dhaka; Xpace Cultural Centre (2019), Toronto; YYZ Artist Outlet (2019), Toronto; CICA Museum (2018), New York; New Media Society (2018), Tehran; and Gardiner Museum (2017), Toronto. She recently completed the Banff Early Career Artist Residency in Summer 2025.