Sarah Pooyanfard (b.1987, Tehran) in her painting, drawing and print reflects a sense of alienation and violence in her society. Her art while reworking on trans-cultural traumas by playing with sense of self and other. She received her master’s degree in painting from the University of Art, Tehran. Her master’s thesis was about the representation of violence in Iranian painting from the constitutional era to present time. Her study followed the question of how violence reproduces itself in the form of cultural productions of society.
EDUCATION
2017
M.A., at Tehran University of Art, Tehran, Iran
2010
B.A., Tehran University of Art, Tehran, Iran
2005
Graphic Diploma, Soureh Art School, Tehran, Iran
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Lucretia Has Been in This Home, Negar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2020
Home Is Leaving Me!, Negar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The 12th Art Expo of Several Generations of Iranian Contemporary Artists, Laleh
Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2023
Here/There, Galerie Foyer Brotfabrik, Bonn, Germany
2023
Can you hear me?, Galerie Gublia, Essen, Germany
2022
White Friday, Negar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2022
Gaze it (No. 2), Negar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2022
Persian Painting in Negar, Negar Art Gallery,
Tehran, Iran
2022
Artist Book, Negar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2020
Phoenix, Negar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2020
Gaze it…, Negar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2020
SOS SISTAN, Negar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018
The Scent of Almond, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, Iran
2017
The Scent of Almond, World Forum, The Hague, The Netherlands
2016
The Hat, Aknoon Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016
Jokal festival, Pardis Mellat Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2015
Here Video Art Exhibit, Fereshteh Book City, Tehran, Iran
2015
The Young Artists, Ace Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014
Art: Out of center, Iran Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014
Wings for Little Angels, Iran Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Represented by
Negar Art Gallery
Contact
sarah.pooyan@gmail.com
Instagram
@sarah.pooyanfard