Parya Vatankhah

Parya Vatankhah
Born (1976-07-11) July 11, 1976
Teheran  Iran
Education
Occupation Painter, photographer, Video artist, Performance artist, Visual artist

Parya Vatankhah (in Persian : پریا وطن خواه), is an Iranian visual artist living and working in Paris. She works with a wide range of media and techniques like painting, photography, Video art and Performance art. She draws on her own experiences to explore the paradoxes which exist inside of human and the trauma created by politics and society.

Biography

Parya Vatankhah was born in Tehran and grew up in Rasht, near the Caspian Sea. Drawing and painting have always been an important part of her life. From her childhood, she was already making paintings for herself and the children around her. From the age of 12, she became interested in the history of art, reading various art books and biographies of artists. Raised by a mother who was painter and a doctor father, her education was very traditional. The family home have a large library, then, at the age of 18, she had read the works of Balzac, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Andre Gide, translated into Persian. For her parents and for the society in which she lived, artistic studies were not considered as a "main stream" activity. She was allowed to practice painting, but in addition to more academic studies. Under the influence of her parents, she started engineering studies, but in parallel, she followed secretly painting classes. After two years, she stopped her studies and successfully passed the competitions for art classes of Azad University of Tehran. Then She moved to Tehran and finally she discovered modern art and contemporary art at 22 years old for the first time. She finished her education of the art master in Azad university of Tehran very successfully and started to teaching in University of Science and Culture(Farhang Honar university) in Rasht and after in Tehran till leaving Iran.

Before leaving Iran for France, she exhibited in various galleries in Rasht and Tehran, the Daryâbeygi Gallery and Niavaran cultural center. In spring 2008, she exhibited at the center of Iranian culture in Paris during the art festival of " Printemps Iranien à Paris".[1] This first trip to Paris gave her the desire to live in France, what she did in 2009.[2]

Artistic career

Parya Vatankhah is a visual artist and Arts teacher. Originally from Iran, she currently lives and works in Paris. Her practice is multidisciplinary and focuses on the paradoxes that make up our world. She deals with the intimate suffering impacted by the politics and society. The body is both the subject and the object of her work. It is becoming the preferred medium of the artist after her arrival in France. She plays herself in her videos and her performances and her body is become her medium of the work. Her studying research is about the representation of the violence in contemporary art, the intimity and the public suffering like her video Get along in which making love is being bloody by an externe cause which can be society, tabous, etc., the political arts and the body art.

Parya Vatankhah graduated a master of contemporary arts and multimedia in Paris VIII University (2014), the visual arts in Aix-en-Provence university (2011) and painting in Tehran University (2005). She has also taught at the University of "Culture and Art" for five years before leaving Iran.

Her work has been exhibited internationally (Pori Art Museum, Finland; Malmö Art Centre, Sweden; Niavaran Cultural Center, Iran; CologneOFF2011 (India, Poland, Finland, Lebanon); The gallery of University Paris 8, The Gallery of the University of the Sorbonne (France); art centre of Bilbao, Spain, the art festival in Edinburgh, UK; Former Museum Teresa Current Art, Mexico).

She received a Price on The International festival of Women's Voice Now (Los Angeles, 2014).

Works

Main exhibitions

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

Talk

Awards

Second in experimental category, Women's Voice Now festival,[10] Los Angeles, United States, 2014

References

  1. ↑ Printemps iranien à Paris, Paris, France, 2008
  2. ↑ Behnood Mokri, Interview Parya Vatankhah, VOA (Voice of America), 2011
  3. ↑ Nietzsche Was A Man, Pori Art Museum, Finland, Official website
  4. ↑ Nietzsche Was A Man, ART ACTUEL magazine , 2014
  5. ↑ John Cage project, Videoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, 2014
  6. ↑ Nietzsche Was A Man, Video art exhibition of 19 Iranian women artists, 2013-2015
  7. ↑ EDINBURGH IRANIAN FESTIVAL, Margaret's House, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2013
  8. ↑ Edinburg Art festival, Margaret's House, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012
  9. ↑ Close to My Heart with CologneOFF, Marrakech, 2012
  10. ↑ Women Voices Now festival, Los Angeles, États-Unis, 2014

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