Sara Mozafari
Sara Mozafari is an Iranian-Canadian Interdisciplinary Artist Based in Toronto.
Mozafari was born in the summer of 1981 in Tehran, Iran. 1981 is two years after the Islamic Revolution of Iran, a year after the beginning of eight years of war between Iran and Iraq, seven years before the mass execution of Iranian political prisoners. She was born in 1981 in Tehran, Iran, as a woman-to-be, and she left the country when she was 25. Her experiences of this history—and the imprint those experiences have left on her body—form the basis of her artistic work and her research into surveillance, trauma, memory, and belonging in the mental and material spaces.
After immigrating to Canada, her factual perceptions of her home country narrowed to the memories she has and the news she receives on an everyday basis. Sara's current practice's primary focus is to recognize space, displacement, and memory in diverse aspects of human identity and social relations.
Sara Mozafari lives and works in Toronto, ON. She received her Honors Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Design from the University of Toronto with distinction in 2017 and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Media, and Design from OCAD University in 2021, for which she received the Dean's Medal. Her thesis's core concept focused on visualizing an imaginary space grounded on spatial theories and exploring a relationship between space, displacement, memory, identity, and social relations.
She has presented her work at UAAC in 2020 and 2021, the University of Virginia in 2021, the Asia Global Cultural Studies Forum in 2021, and the Society of Architectural Historians in 2022. She received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council. Sara's Moqarnas and Discoriented Spatial Memories 3 was selected for the Art Gallery of Mississauga Juror's Award in 2022. Aside from her art practice, Sara works as an architectural designer at HDR.
