Parya Vatankhah


Parya Vatankhah, 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.
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 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 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". This first trip to Paris gave her the desire to move in France, and she moved in 2009. Parya Vatankhah graduated with a master's degree of Contemporary Arts and Multimedia from Paris 8 University, and a master's degree of Art in Visual Art in Aix-Marseille University.
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!.

Exhibitions

This is a list of select group exhibitions by Vatankhah.