Sanaz Mazinani is an artist, curator, and educator based in San Francisco and Toronto. She holds her undergraduate degree from Ontario College of Art & Design University, and her Masters in Fine Arts from Stanford University.

She co-edited the book The Death of Photography (Bulger Gallery Press, 2008) and co-edited ALMANAC (Stanford University, 2010). She was the 2011 Visual Arts Curator for the Iranian Canadian Centre for Art & Culture’s interdisciplinary arts biennial, Tirgan. In 2012 she was Guest Curator at Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University where she curated Edward Weston: On Light, Line and Form. Most recently she programmed New Constellations: Contemporary Iranian Video Art, with colleague Amirali Ghasemi.

Her projects have been exhibited in venues such as University of Toronto Art Center, Art & Architecture Library at Stanford University, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Gallery 44 Center for Contemporary Photography, Emirates Financial Towers, Dubai, and Museum Bärengasse, Zurich. Her artwork has been written about in Border Crossings, Nuva Luz, NOW Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, and Dide.

Mazinani’s catalogue “Unfolding Images” was released in 2012. She has recently received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and San Francisco Arts Commission for her art practice. She was shortlisted for the 2013 Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize, granted the Kala Art Institute Fellowship, and was awarded the San Francisco Arts Commission Art on Market Street public art installation for 2013/2014.

Visual Art, Photography, Islamic Art History, Contemporary Art Practice

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