Sara Mameni

Sara Mameni (born March 29, 1977)[1] is a Canadian visual artist, curator, and scholar.[2]

Writing & career

Mameni completed a B.F.A. in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Afterwards she obtained an M.A. from the University of British Columbia and a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California in San Diego.[2] During her Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego Mameni wrote her dissertation titled, “On Persian Blues: Queer Bodies, Racial Affect,” Mameni's “research, publications, and curatorial work [engage] gender, race, and sexuality” with contemporary art and visual culture in Iran.[3] Mameni has written articles and reviews for Canadian Art, Fuse Magazine, Filip Review, and the Journal of Women and Performance.[4] In June 2011 Mameni curated the exhibition, Snail Fever, at the Third Line Gallery in Dubai.[5] Mameni was an education coordinator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is Director of the Aesthetics and Politics MA program at the California Institute for the Arts.[6]

Selected publications
  • "Dermopolitics: Erotics of the Muslim Body in Pain", Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 2017.[7]
  • "Car Flirting and Morality Cruising: Neurotic Gazes and Paranoid Glances in Contemporary Iranian Art", AL- Raida, 2013.[8]
  • "Adventures in History: Isabelle Pauwels at the Henry Art Gallery",Canadian Art, 2010.[9]
  • "Invasion of the Cybernetic Hand and Other Predicaments: Kristen Lucas at Or Gallery", Fillip Review, 2007.[10]

Artistic practice

Mameni has an interdisciplinary art practice that includes sound installation, drawing, and creative and scholarly writing. Some of Mameni's exhibitions include a series of redrawn public posters taken from Granville and Smithe Street in Vancouver in 2004 and sound installation at Western Front Gallery about "India's booming economy, which "[promoted] a fictional investment plan."[11][12] Mameni's artwork is in permanent collections at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery.[13]

Selected exhibitions
  • Again and Again and Again: Serial Formats and Repetitive Actions, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2012.[14]
  • Everything Should be As Simple As Possible But Not Simpler, Western Front, 2008.[15]
  • Between Us: Toronto/Vancouver Exchange, YYZ Artists' Outlet, 2008.[16]
  • White Noise: Sara Mameni and Isabelle Pauwels, State Gallery, 2005.[15]
  • The Poster Project, Artspeak, 2004.[17]

Awards

In 2009, Mameni was awarded the Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize for her account of artist Denise Oleksijczuks’ creation of the film Role.[18] Mameni has received grants from Canada Council for the Arts and the Mary Lily Research Grant.[19][20]

Personal Life

Mameni was married from 1998 - 2010.

References
  1. "Raymond Boisjoly, Karina Bergmans, Jennifer Cook, Steven Hubert, Roy Lu, Sara Mameni, Isabelle Pauwels, Minh Nguyen, Stefan Thompson and Ron Tran: Transcontinental Divide | UNIT/PITT Projects". www.helenpittgallery.org. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  2. "University of California, President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program".
  3. "Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Sara Mameni – Institute for Humanities Research". ihr.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  4. "Sara Mameni, Author at Canadian Art". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  5. Hundal, Angela Boshoff (2011). "Sarah Mameni Speaks about her 'viral exhibition'". Gulf News.
  6. "CalArts Program Faculty page". Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  7. Mameni, Sara (2017). "Dermopolitics: Erotics of the Muslim Body in Pain". Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. 27: 96–103. doi:10.1080/0740770X.2017.1282119.
  8. Mameni, Sara (2013). "Car Flirting and Morality Cruising: Neurotic Gazes and Paranoid Glances in Contemporary Iranian Art". Al-Raida. 141: 27–38.
  9. Mameni, Sara (2010). "Adventures in History: Isabelle Pauwels at the Henry Art Gallery". Canadian Art: 130–133.
  10. Mameni, Sara (2007). "Invasion of the Cybernetic Hand and Other Predicaments: Kristin Lucas at Or Gallery". Fillip. 5: 15.
  11. "Sara Mameni". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. 2004-07-22. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  12. "everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler - Canadian Art". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  13. "Vancouver Art Gallery". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-27.
  14. "Vancouver Art Gallery". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-27.
  15. "White Noise". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. 2005-09-08. Retrieved 2017-03-27.
  16. "Alissa Firth-Eagland and Johan Lundh: Between Us- A Toronto/Vancouver Exchange". YYZ. 2008-09-04. Retrieved 2017-03-27.
  17. "The Poster Project | Artspeak". artspeak.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-27.
  18. "There are just two weeks left to apply for the Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize! - Canadian Art". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  19. "2014-2015 Grants Recipitients".
  20. "Grant and Prize Recipients". Canada Council for the Arts. Retrieved 2017-03-27.
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