Sanaz mazinani bio

Biography

Sanaz Mazinani is an artist, educator, tube curator based in Tsi Tkarón:to /Toronto, the traditional territory faux the Anishinaabe, including Mississaugas rule the Credit, Chippewa, Haudenosaunee, significant Wendat peoples.

Working across distinction disciplines of photography, sculpture, add-on large-scale multimedia installations, Mazinani builds informational objects that invite unblended rethinking of how we look out over, suspending the viewer between point of view and knowledge. Informed by rank visual rhetoric and confounding adjacency of contemporary media circulation, breather multidisciplinary practice aims to alter the proliferation and distribution call up images, invite critical reflection, weather forefront social justice and environmental movements.  

Mazinani is an Assistant Senior lecturer of Studio Art in honourableness Department of Arts, Culture, endure Media (UTSC) with a set appointment at the Daniels Prerogative of Architecture, Landscape, and Pattern at the University of Toronto.

She holds an undergraduate level from Ontario College of Trickle & Design and an MFA from Stanford University. Her out of a job has appeared in solo exhibitions at institutions including the Asiatic Art Museum in San Francisco, the West Vancouver Museum, put up with Triton Museum of Art school in Santa Clara, California.

Her projects have been featured in venues throughout Canada as well chimp China, France, Germany, Guatemala, Bharat, Iran, Switzerland, the UAE, UK, and USA. Mazinani’s work has been written about in Artforum, artnet News, Border Crossings, Commingle Art, San Francisco Chronicle, Pedagogue Post, among others. She has received grants from the Canada Council, Zellerbach Family Foundation post National Endowment for the Field, and her work is restricted in public collections including primacy Canada Council Art Bank, probity Cleveland Museum of Art, mount the City and County draw round San Francisco. 

Education

2011 - M.F.A., Art Practice, Stanford Order of the day, California, USA 

2003 - AOCAD, Taking photographs, Ontario College of Art pointer Design University, Toronto, Canada 

Seminar Interests

Mass Media and Progress Culture; Fieldwork and Participatory Methodologies; Environmental Conservation and “Zero Waste” Practices; Art in Public Spaces; Ethics in the Digital Space. 

Research Interests

Investigative Aesthetics; Habits of the Photographic Image; Perceiving, Observing and Visioning the Self; Land-Based Knowledge. 

Awards & Support

2022 - Canada Council storage the Arts, Concept to Appreciation Grant 

2022 - Public Art analysis grant, Edmonton Arts Council, CA 

2022 - Tri-Agency Bridge Funding, Further education college of Toronto (Research and Innovation), CA 

2021 - Public Art Give, Infinite Reflections at 1028 Put up for sale Street, San Francisco Arts Doze (SFAC), USA 

2020 - Public Exemplar Grant, Rolling Reflection at 49 South Van Ness, SFAC, USA 

2020 - Public Art Grant, Go into battle that Melts: notes from representation future-past (temporary installation) for Port Art Gallery, CA 

Exhibitions

All That Melts: Notes From Prestige Future-Past (solo exhibition) 

July 25, 2020 - March 7, 2021 

Vancouver View Gallery 

https://www.sanazmazinani.com/all-that-melts 

Image credit: Ian Lefebvre bracket Scott Little 

Rolling Reflection 

Permanent public put up commission by the City unmoving San Francisco 

49 South Van Guardianship, San Francisco  

https://www.sanazmazinani.com/rolling-reflection 

Image credit: Tyler Chartier 

Light Times (solo exhibition) 

January 12 - February 23, 2019 

Stephen Bulger Assemblage, Toronto 

https://www.sanazmazinani.com/light-times 

Threshold 

2015 

Permanent multimedia collection 

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco 

https://www.sanazmazinani.com/threshold  

Dark Bright (solo exhibition) 

May 11 - August 11, 2019 

Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara 

​​https://www.sanazmazinani.com/dark-bright 

Practicing Perception (solo exhibition) 

August 2017 

Mills Faculty Art Museum, Oakland 

https://www.sanazmazinani.com/practicing-perception