Salar Mameni (born March 29, 1977) is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at

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Education

Mameni completed a

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in Visual Arts from

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, a

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from the

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, and a

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in Art History from the

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Career

Mameni was an education coordinator at the

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, a postdoctoral fellow at the

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, and the Director of the Aesthetics and Politics MA program at the

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. Mameni has written for ''

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'', '' Fuse Magazine'', ''Filip Review'', ''Signs'', ''Journal of Women and Performance,'' and more. In June 2011, Mameni curated the exhibition, ''Snail Fever'', at the Third Line Gallery in

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. Mameni also has an interdisciplinary art practice that includes sound installation, drawing, and creative and scholarly writing. Mameni's artworks are in permanent collections at the

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and the

Select bibliography

Writing

* "Adventures in History:

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at the Henry Art Gallery", ''Canadian Art'', 2010. * "Dermopolitics: Erotics of the Muslim Body in Pain", ''Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory'', 2017. * "Car Flirting and Morality Cruising: Neurotic Gazes and Paranoid Glances in Contemporary Iranian Art", ''AL- Raida'', 2013. * "Congo memories", ''Canadian Art'', 2010. * "How Does It Feel to Be an Oil Spill?", ''Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities'', 2020. * "Invasion of the Cybernetic Hand and Other Predicaments: Kristen Lucas at Or Gallery", ''Fillip Review'', 2007. * "On Persian Blues : Queer Bodies, Racial Affects", ''eScholarship, University of California'', 2015. * "Take Two", ''Canadian Art'', 2009. * "Visual studies now. Visions of immunity", ''Visual studies (Abingdon, England)'', 2021. * "What Are the Iranians Wishing For? Queer Transnational Solidarity in Revolutionary Iran", ''Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society'', 2018.

Exhibitions

* ''Again and Again and Again: Serial Formats and Repetitive Actions'',

, 2012. * ''Everything Should be As Simple As Possible But Not Simpler'', Western Front, 2008. * Between Us: Toronto/Vancouver Exchange, YYZ Artists' Outlet, 2008. * ''White Noise: Sara Mameni and

'', State Gallery, 2005. * ''The Poster Project'', Artspeak, 2004.

Awards

In 2009, Mameni was awarded the Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize for their account of artist Denise Oleksijczuks' creation of the film ''Role''. Mameni has received grants from

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and the Mary Lily Research Grant.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mameni, Sara 1977 births Living people 21st-century Canadian artists Emily Carr University of Art and Design alumni University of British Columbia alumni University of California, San Diego alumni