ZAHRA KOMEYLIAN
RED SOUP (2024)
WATER OVER MARSH (2022)
TWO PASSAGES (2021)
RECIPES FOR RADICAL REST AND SLOWNESS (2020)
GROUNDWORK (2020)
NOTHING IS A HOLE IN ITS OWN SKIN (2020)
CONTAINER FOR A PRECARIOUS RECORD (2019)
PLACES WHERE THINGS HAD BEEN PUT BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN VIOLENTLY DISPLACED, AND PLACES WHERE THINGS FOUND THEIR NATURAL GROUND AND STABILITY (2018- 2019)
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Zahra Komeylian is an Iranian-Canadian artist and educator based between Toronto and Montreal. Komeylian’s practice is grounded in self-reflexive processes, often resulting in conjoint works of performance art, sculpture-installation, text, and drawing, which inform one another in circularity. Her research looks at the unsayable aspects of subjectivity through personal myth and autotheory, collective (archetypal) symbology, and embodied knowledge. Komeylian holds an MA in Psychology from Columbia University (2017) and Master of Teaching from 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), Carleton University Art Gallery (2020), Toronto Biennial of Art (2019, 2024), Asian Art Biennale (2018), Xpace Cultural Centre (2019), CICA Museum (2018), New Media Society, Tehran (2018), and Gardiner Museum (2017).