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 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, which inform one another in circularity. Her 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. Komeylian’s social practice spans workshops, public intervention, performance, and teaching.
Komeylian approaches her studio practice from an interdisciplinary background. 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; Carleton University Art Gallery (2020), Ottawa; Toronto Biennial of Art (2019, 2024); Asian Art Biennale (2018), Dhakka; Xpace Cultural Centre (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.