Zahra Komeylian (b. 1991) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Komeylian’s practice is grounded in self-reflexive processes, often resulting in conjoint works of performance art, sculpture-installation, text, and drawing, which inform one another in circularity. Since 2015, she has worked in community education, mental health and community art spaces, and primarily with trauma-informed modalities. Her studio research leans into preverbal aspects of subjectivity as they are expressed through personal myth and autotheory, collective symbology (archetype), collective impulses, and embodied knowledge.
Zahra holds an MA in Psychology from Columbia University (2017) and Master of Teaching from the University of Toronto (2023). She is a recipient of the Ontario Arts Council Chalmers Fellowship for emerging artists and has presented work both locally and internationally, including at Carleton University Art Gallery (2020), Toronto Biennial of Art (2019), Asian Art Biennale (2018), Xpace Cultural Centre (2019), CICA Museum (2018), New Media Society, Tehran (2018), and Gardiner Museum (2017). Her upcoming solo exhibition will be presented at NARS foundation, New York, in August 2024.
Program
Container for a Vessel: resourcing nervous system healing
In this workshop, artist Zahra Komeylian invites participants to engage with practices of listening and tuning for resetting nervous system dysregulation. Our bodies record resonances of collective pain as exhaustion and trauma in the nervous system. In the face of global catastrophe and ongoing grief, building capacity in the body opens space to sustain collective […]
November 2
10:30am – 12:00pm
