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.

gollark: Observe, decent conversation.
gollark: This is antiantimemetics, not antimemetics.
gollark: Memetics.
gollark: I'm not sure what percentile the chimps are at.
gollark: It's something about remembering the order of some squares.

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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