Biography
Working with photography, installation, video, text and design, artist Golnaz Esmaili creates images and objects that explore the relationships between storytelling, everyday materials and varied bodies, both human and non-human. Her practice contemplates the aftermath of memory and the suspension of time on image-objects enacted within the intersecting spaces of history, epistemology, language and technology.
Esmaili’s work has been presented in a number of exhibitions in the US, Iran, Lebanon, Canada, France, Brazil and Austria, and her writing has been published in Lookie-Lookie, Metropolis Magazine, Graphic Magazine, DIS Magazine and Arabesque 2. She was a fellow at the Home Workspace Program, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2017–2018) and a founding member of the collective ALLGOLD, who were in residency at MoMA PS1, New York (2014–2015). She was awarded first prize at the Chaumont Graphic Design Festival, a John A. Carrafiell Scholarship at the Yale School of Arts and a Vijeh travel grant in Tehran.
Esmaili received a BFA from Azad Art University (2006), an MFA from Tehran University (2009) and a second MFA from Yale University (2012). Born in 1985 in Tehran, she currently lives and works in New York
SAF participation:
March Meeting 2019
