Parya Vatankhah

Parya Vatankhah
Native name پریا وطن خواه
Born 1976 (age 41–42)
Tehran, Iran
Residence Paris, France
Education

Paris 8 University,

Aix-Marseille University,
Islamic Azad University,
Occupation Painter, Photographer, Video artist, Performance artist, Visual artist

Parya Vatankhah (in Persian: پریا وطن خواه), is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist living and working in Paris. She works with a wide range of media and techniques like painting, photography, video art and performance art. Since 2016, Vatankhah is a lecturer for visual art courses at University of Paris VIII in Saint-Denis, France. 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 in 1976[1][2] and grew up in Rasht. She finished her education of the art master in Islamic Azad University of Tehran and started to teaching in University of Science and Culture (Farhang Honar) for 5 years, before leaving Iran.

In Spring 2008, she exhibited at the center of Iranian culture in Paris during the art festival of "Printemps Iranien à Paris".[3] This first trip to Paris gave her the desire to move in France, and she moved in 2009.[4] Parya Vatankhah graduated a Master of Contemporary Arts and Multimedia in Paris 8 University (2014), Master of Art in Visual Art in Aix-Marseille University (2011).

In 2014, Vatankhah's film "Get Along" won 2nd place in the experimental film category, at the online short-film festival Women Bought and Sold: Voices United Against the Violence!.[5][6]

Select exhibitions

2016

  • Not Read, Refugee! Film Collection, artvideoKOELN, Shillong, India[7]

2015

  • Nietzsche Was A Man,[8] Pori Art Museum, Finland, Pori Art Museum. Finland
  • (Re)Actions (film short co-created with Laurie Joly), 28th Festival Les Instants Video Marseille, Marseille, France[9]

2014

  • Nietzsche Was A Man,[10] Malmö Konsthall. C-salen, Malmö, Suede
  • John Cage project,[11] Vidéoformes Festival, Festival d'art numérique, Clermont-Ferrand, France

2013

  • Nietzsche Was A Man,[12] VideoBabel, Peruvian – North American Cultural Institute of Cusco, Peru
  • Edinburgh Iranian Festival 2013, St. Margaret’s House, Edinburgh, Scotland[13]

2012

  • Edinburgh Iranian Festival 2012, St. Margaret’s House, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Close to My Heart,[14] curated by Alysse Stepanian, Digital Marrakech, With CologneOFF 2012 Morocco

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Parya Vatankhah (Iran)". AND - Artists Network Database. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  2. ↑ "CologneOFF 2011". manipulatedimage.com. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  3. ↑ Printemps iranien à Paris, Paris, France, 2008
  4. ↑ "Behnood Mokri, Interview". YouTube. Voice of America (VOA). May 23, 2011.
  5. ↑ "WVN Announces the Winners of the 2014 Online Short-Film Festival - Women's Voices Now". 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  6. ↑ "Experimental Films Get Along". WVN Online Film Festival. 2013. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  7. ↑ "Parya Vatankhah – The-REFUGEE-Memorial". refugee.engad.org. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  8. ↑ Nietzsche Was A Man, Pori Art Museum, Finland, Official website
  9. ↑ "28th Festival Les Instants Video Marseille". Espace Culture. 2015. p. 7. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  10. ↑ Nietzsche Was A Man, ART ACTUEL magazine , 2014
  11. ↑ John Cage project, Videoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, 2014 Archived 2015-01-13 at the Wayback Machine.
  12. ↑ Nietzsche Was A Man, Video art exhibition of 19 Iranian women artists, 2013-2015
  13. ↑ "Edinburgh Iranian Festival 2013" (PDF). www.ediranfest.co.uk. 2013. p. 12. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  14. ↑ Close to My Heart with CologneOFF, Marrakech, 2012
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