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Zahra Komeylian (b. 1991, Tokyo, Japan)  is an Iranian-Canadian artist and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto. 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. Komeylian’s research leans into preverbal aspects of subjectivity as they are communicated through personal myth and autotheory, collective symbology (archetype), collective impulses, and embodied knowledge.

Komeylian 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 and has presented work both locally and internationally, including at Carleton University Art Gallery (2020), Toronto Biennial of Art (2019), Asian Art Biennale (2018), Xpace Cultural Centre (2019), CICA Museum (2018), New Media Society, Tehran (2018), and Gardiner Museum (2017). Her upcoming solo exhibition will be presented at NARS foundation, New York, in September 2024. 




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