Farnaz Gholami
My art practice encompasses painting, drawing, printmaking, and installation. I create expansive picture plains, usually depicting ambiguous unpopulated urban landscapes or interior spaces, to consider the sense of in-betweenness. Based on my diasporic experience of living in different cultures and countries, I explore the ideas of dislocation and internal fragmented identity through interaction with my surrounding spaces, buildings, cities, and natures, intertwined with memory and imagination. In my paintings, I use familiar subjects from different cultures such as architecture, gardens, swimming pools, street lamps, or hammocks as devices to break the stereotype of otherness, and suggest familiarity in new undefinable inclusive spaces.
Education
2019
The Slade School of Fine Art (UCL), MA in Fine Art Painting (Distinction), London, UK
2017
Chelsea College of Arts (UAL), Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, London, UK
2013
Brandeis University Post-Baccalaureate in Fine Art, Studio Art, Massachusetts, USA
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Upcoming Curated Group Show: Love and Cells, BombFactory, London, UK
Solo Show: Interlude, Nuweland Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2024
The Light Between, What if the World Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
ZsONAMACO Art Fair, Nuweland Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Bury My Songs, Terrace Gallery, London, UK
2023
The Christmas Show, Bomb Factory, London, UK
Art on a Postcard Winter Auction, Gathering Gallery, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
In Bloom, Victoria Law Projects, London, UK
2022
Solo Show: Pearl Palace and Other Buildings of a Misremembered Past, Bomb Factory Gallery, London, UK
Duo Show:Wilderness Known, Liliya Art Gallery, London, UK
UKNA/Robert Walters, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Autumn Exhibition, Karen Tronel Gallery, London, UK
Through a Glass, Darkly, Niru Ratnam Gallery, London, UK
Art on a Postcard, Bomb Factory Gallery, London, UK
Little Explosions, Bomb Factory Gallery, London, UK
Weary Harold, Asc Gallery, London, UK
2021
Duo Show: Harbinger of a Sweet Song, Yammamoto Keiko Rochaix Gallery, London, UK
Wild Grapes, Unit 3 Project Space, London, UK
Echo, Eco, Co, O, Heck! , Proposition Gallery, London, UK
2020
Squeezed, Karen Tronel Gallery, London, UK
Group Show, Karen Tronel Gallery, London, UK
2019
Gestura, The Koppel Project, London, UK
EXH 01, Floorr EXH, Online Platform
Graduate Art Prize Exhibition, ARTIQ and Herbert Smith Freehills, London, UK
Limbo, The London Summer Intensive: The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
The Slade School of Fine Art Degree Show, UCL, London, UK
Distant Heres, The Stone Space Gallery, London, UK
But We Don’t Leave Pyramids, GAPS Curatorial, Charsoo Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018
Home, Jorjani Gallery, Tehran, Iran
The Field, The ASC Gallery, London, UK
2017
Imagen Vibratoria, bajo el paraguas de su reproducción, El Museo Nahim Isaías del Ministerio de Cultura y Patrimonio, Ecuador
Let’s Yarding, GAPS Curatorial, London, UK
Big Fridge, The Safehouse Gallery, London, UK
Hot Dairy, The Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
2016
Turbine Art Fair, Warren Editions, Johannesburg, South Africa
Printmaking exhibition, Côte d’Ivore Embassy, Tehran, Iran
2015
Print Exhibition, Warren Editions Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2013
Group Exhibition, Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA
Achievements and Residencies
2023
Ing Discerning Eye, London, UK
2022
UKNA Robert Walters Awards, London, UK (Finalist)
2019
The Olive Prize, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK (Recipient)
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, London, UK (Shortlisted)
Tiffany & co. x Outset studiomakers award, London, UK (Runner up)
The Slade Summer School Residency, UCL, London, UK (Recipient)
The Graduate Art Prize, Artiq, London, UK (Shortlisted)
2014-15
Printmaking Residency, Warren Editions, Cape Town, South Africa