Ghazaleh Avarzamani

Born in Iran in 1979, Ghazaleh Avarzamani moved to Canada in 2016 and has subsequently undertaken residencies at the Banff Centre, MOCA Toronto, SOMA Summer in Mexico City, Red Mansion in Beijing, and Greatmore in Cape Town. She has presented recent solo exhibitions at the MOCA Toronto, Galerie Nicolas Roberts in Montreal, the Koffler Gallery in Toronto, the Ab-Anbar Gallery in Tehran, and Asia House and Light Gallery in London.

After completing her MA in Fine Art at London’s Central Saint Martins in 2013, Avarzamani was nominated for the Mall Galleries’ 2013 Threadneedle Prize. Her large-scale installations and sculptural re-assemblages question power structures by investigating their rules and methodologies while considering a range of spaces for interactivity, self-development, and play.