In this talk, Reyhan Yazdani will speak about the experiences, inspirations, and artistic process behind her interdisciplinary practice dedicated to exploring politics of belonging and diasporic views on self, place, and memory.
This artist talk is presented through the collaborative efforts of VIVA Alliance and Orange Easel.
Artist’s Biography
In this talk, Reyhan Yazdani will speak about the experiences, inspirations, and artistic process behind her interdisciplinary practice dedicated to exploring politics of belonging and diasporic views on self, place, and memory.
Reyhan Yazdani (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and designer currently based in Vancouver, the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) people. Her research-driven work migrates between a range of media including works on paper, objects, social invitations, and poetry to engage with ontological, material and spatial inquiries around and about themes of exile, language, and diaspora.
Reyhan received a Master of Architecture from the University of Tehran in 2017 and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2019. Over the last two years, her research has been supported and presented by multiple grants, galleries, and publications including Canada Council for the Arts (2023- 2024), artist-in-residence programs with the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity (Alberta), Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Burnaby), and Access Gallery (Vancouver), exhibitions at Kelowna Art Gallery (2023), Seymour Art Gallery (2022), Centre A (2019), and publications such as C Magazine. She currently teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design as an associate professor in the Culture & Community Faculty.