Sara Rahmanian (b.1993,Tehran,Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist fascinated by everyday objects and the absurdity of contemporary life. She uses painting to explore the imaginative gaps between reality and perception. She paints on coffee filters or canvas boards . She draws from first-person perspectives, defamiliarizing the mundane to invite a heightened sense of contemplation about our surroundings. Painting is her go-to medium for playing hide and seek with objects, but more often than not, the process surprises her!
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Sara Rahmanian (b.1993, Tehran, Iran) is an artist fascinated by everyday objects and the
bitter satire of contemporary life. She uses painting to explore the imaginative gaps
between reality and perception and how the contradictions can open up an opportunity for
transition. Rahmanian’s work suggests that the migration experience can queer concepts
of gender, imagination and ideas of the home. Her paintings draw from first-person
perspectives, defamiliarizing the mundane to invite a heightened sense of contemplation
about her surroundings. Using both canvas and non-traditional surfaces, painting has
become her go-to medium for playing hide and seek with objects, but more often than not,
the process surprises her. She graduated from Yale School of Art with an MFA in Painting
and Printmaking in 2021 and her works have been shown in solo and group shows in Iran,
UAE, Italy and the UnitedStates.
EDUCATION
MFA painting and printmaking Yale School of Art New Haven, CT, USA |2019-2021
BA Painting TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF ART, Tehran, Iran|2010 –2015
SOLO | TWO PERSON SHOW
Solo Exhibition ILY2 Gallery, Oregon, Portland, USA| 2024
NADA Solo Presentation ILY2 Gallery, NewYork| 2024
Mirror as Water Stable s-Chanf, Switzerland|2023
Quotidian/Episodes 1969 Gallery New York, USA| 2022
Find the needle or let her die Acro
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sss project Milan, Italy|2021
Hidden with doubt Solo Exhibition Gallery TEHRAN, IRAN|2017
PARTICIPATION AND GROUP SHOWS
Sens Mélo Thomas Ammann Fine Art & The Stable, Zurich, Switzerland| 2024
Young and restless The Stable gallery s-Chanf, Switzerland| 2023
Untold Narrative/ Seductive echo Bronx council New York, USA|2023
Chambres d’Amis: IKEA Office Baroque AntWerp, Belgia (online)l2022
Apple in the dark Harkawik Gallery New York, USA l 2022
Shadow Stable S-Chanf , Switzerland|2021
In Praise of Shadows Lyles & King gallery NewYork ,USA|2021
She come to stay Andreafesta Fine Art Rome, Iran |2021
Urban mural group project skate park Aldar Supporting Co,Abu Dhabi, The UnitedArab
Emirates |2019 Self-Plate Art Group Exhibition In EV Design Studio TEHRAN, IRAN | 2018
Rad-e Ani Painting Group Exhibition Nak Gallery TEHRAN, IRAN | 2018
Domestic Affairs 2 Group Exhibition Isabelle Gallery DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES| 2016
Domestic Affairs Group Exhibition Isabelle Gallery DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | 2016
CURATORIAL PROJECT
Curator Assistant in Imago Mundi Collection, IRAN, 2010-2012
COPYWRITER
Aftab Company, Tehran, Iran | 2016–2017AWARDS AND NOMINATION
Clifford Ross Scholarship Award, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT |2021Critical Practice
Grant; Yale School of Art |2020
Nomination100 Early-Career Artists 2023/2024, Art Cube, USA| 2024
PRESS AND PUBLICATION
The Art Gorgeous Magazine Italy|2021
ArtEast New York,USA|2021
Markaz New York|2022
Highlights from the New Art Dealers Alliance Fair 2024
ELEPHANT Magazine| 2024
7 Best Booth at NADA New York’s 2024 Edition, White Wall |2024
Portland Artists and Curators on their Favorite Shows from |2024
Portland Monthly |2024
SOLO SHOW
Hidden with doubt Solo Exhibition Delgosha Gallery TEHRAN, IRAN | 04.2017
PARTICIPATION
We Don’t Really Know Each Other YSOA 1st YEAR MFA SHOW NEW HAVEN, CT, USA | 10.2019
Urban mural group project, skate park,Aldar Supporting Co.• Abu Dhabi, The United Arab Emirates • .2019
Self-Plate Art Group Exhibition In EV Design Studio TEHRAN, IRAN | 06.2018
Nategh Drawing Group Exhibition Vartan Gallery TEHRAN, IRAN | 04.2018
Rad-e Ani Painting Group Exhibition Nak Gallery TEHRAN, IRAN | 03.2018
Badha Painting Group Exhibition Delgosha Gallery TEHRAN, IRAN | 03.2018
Domestic Affairs 2 Group Exhibition Isabelle Gallery DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES| 08.2016
Domestic Affairs Group Exhibition Isabelle Gallery DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | 06.2016
Drawing Group Exhibition The Mine Gallery DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | 04.2016 Poshte Parchin-e Khial Exibition in Second Week of Tehran Painting Held at Saba Culture and Art Institute TEHRAN, IRAN | 05.2014
EDUCATION
MFA candidate at Yale school of art graduating in 2021
Bachelor of Painting UNIVERSITY OF ART | Tehran, Iran | 02.2012 – 09.2016
AWARDS
Dean’s Critical Practice Grant; Yale School of Art, 2020
THE ROSE OF LIDICE MEDAL UNESCO, The Czechoslovak Forign Institute, 1999