Parya Vatankhah

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

Parya Vatankhah
پریا وطن خواه
Born1976 (age 43–44)
Tehran, Iran
EducationParis 8 University,
Aix-Marseille University,
Islamic Azad University,
OccupationPainter, photographer, video artist, performance artist, visual artist

Since 2016, Vatankhah is a lecturer for visual art courses at University of Paris VIII in Saint-Denis, France. Vatankhah is living and working in Paris, France.

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 with a master's degree of Contemporary Arts and Multimedia from Paris 8 University (2014), and a master's degree 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]

Exhibitions

This is a list of select group exhibitions by Vatankhah.

  • 2018 – London Feminist Film Festival, with the short film Nazanin, London, England
  • 2017 – (Re) actions with Laurie Joly, Tout va bien au moyen orient, group exhibition, FRAC, Marseille, France[7]
  • 2016 – Not Read, Refugee! Film Collection, artvideoKOELN, Shillong, India[8]
  • 2015 – Nietzsche Was A Man,[9] Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
  • 2015 – (Re)Actions (film short co-created with Laurie Joly), 28th Festival Les Instants Video Marseille, Marseille, France[10]
  • 2014 – Nietzsche Was A Man,[11] Malmö Konsthall. C-salen, Malmö, Suede
  • 2014 – John Cage project,[12] Vidéoformes Festival, Festival d'art numérique, Clermont-Ferrand, France
  • 2013 – Nietzsche Was A Man,[13] VideoBabel, Peruvian – North American Cultural Institute of Cusco, Peru
  • 2013 – Edinburgh Iranian Festival 2013, St. Margaret's House, Edinburgh, Scotland[14]
  • 2012 – Close to My Heart,[15] curated by Alysse Stepanian, Digital Marrakech, With CologneOFF 2012, Morocco

See also

References
  1. "Parya Vatankhah (Iran)". AND – Artists Network Database. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  2. "CologneOFF 2011". manipulatedimage.com. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  3. Printemps iranien à Paris, Paris, France, 2008
  4. "Behnood Mokri, Interview". Voice of America (VOA). 23 May 2011 – via YouTube.
  5. "WVN Announces the Winners of the 2014 Online Short-Film Festival – Women's Voices Now". 23 February 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  6. "Experimental Films Get Along". WVN Online Film Festival. 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  7. "Nos étapes en 2017 | Instants Video numériques et poétiques" (in French). Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  8. "Parya Vatankhah – The-REFUGEE-Memorial". refugee.engad.org. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  9. Nietzsche Was A Man, Pori Art Museum, Finland, Official website
  10. "28th Festival Les Instants Video Marseille". Espace Culture. 2015. p. 7. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  11. Nietzsche Was A Man, ART ACTUEL magazine , 2014
  12. John Cage project, Videoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, 2014 Archived 13 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  13. Nietzsche Was A Man, Video art exhibition of 19 Iranian women artists, 2013–2015
  14. "Edinburgh Iranian Festival 2013" (PDF). ediranfest.co.uk. 2013. p. 12. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  15. Close to My Heart with CologneOFF, Marrakech, 2012
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