SFC Fast Forward - Sanaz Mazinani
In Conversation with Shirin Makaremi
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
6:00 - 7:30 PM PDT
On Tuesday, July 13th SF Camerawork hosted an artist talk with Sanaz Mazinani, which is the first talk of our new Fast Forward series. In the Fast Forward series, we reunited with previous SFC exhibiting artists, who shared how their photographic practices have evolved since their time at SF Camerawork. Mazinani reflected on her exhibition Signal to Noise, presented at SF Camerawork in 2017, and shared recent work from her projects Light Times and Rolling Reflections. We are excited for you to learn more about her practice in a moderated conversation with curator and programming committee member Shirin Markaremi followed by audience Q&A.
ABOUT SANAZ MAZINANI
Sanaz Mazinani is an artist, educator, and curator based in Toronto. Working across the disciplines of photography, sculpture, and large-scale multimedia installations, Mazinani creates informational objects that invite a rethinking of how we see, suspending the viewer between observation and knowledge. Informed by the visual rhetoric and confounding presence of contemporary media circulation, her multidisciplinary practice aims to politicise the proliferation and distribution of images and introduce critical reflection. She holds an undergraduate degree from Ontario College of Art & Design and an MFA from Stanford University. Her work has appeared in solo exhibitions at institutions including the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the West Vancouver Museum, and Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, California. Her projects have been featured in venues throughout Canada as well as USA, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Iran, Switzerland, the UAE, and the UK. Mazinani’s work has been written about in Artforum, artnet News, Border Crossings, Canadian Art, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, among others. She has received grants from the Zellerbach Family Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, and her work is held in public collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the San Francisco International Airport.
ABOUT SHIRIN MAKAREMI
Shirin Makaremi is an Iranian-American artist and curator based in San Francisco, California. Makaremi is the co-director at Incline Gallery in San Francisco and a member of San Francisco Camerawork’s programming committee. In 2018, Makaremi was part of a curatorial collective in residence at SOMArts Cultural Center. Makaremi, received her BA from San Francisco State University in Studio Art and Art History.
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