LOT 41 - Raha Fard

Independent

Title: The woven bodies 4

16.5" x 25.5" (before frame)

Medium: Photography, digital collage on canvas

Date: 2024

Raha Fard is an Iranian Canadian multidisciplinary artist, holding an MFA and BFA from OCAD University. She has a Master’s Degree in Telecommunication Engineering and 14 years of experience in that area before OCAD University. In her work, she explores the intersection of body, psychoanalysis, politics, and art as a member of the Iranian diaspora and a cancer survivor. Raha was selected as one of the three artist-researchers for AGO X RBC Emerging Artist Exchange Program in 2024. She exhibited her works in Iran, Canada, Italy, and Korea. OCAD U President’s Award, Patricia Joy Alpert Memorial Award, Full Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Graduate Studies Research Grant, First Year Graduate Award, Art Gallery of Mississauga’s 4th Annual Juried Show Second Prize and Scarborough Arts' 36th Annual Juried Exhibition Award are some of her awards. She published a novel in Farsi “محوشدگی ” with Mehri Publication based in the UK, which was included in the list of ten Farsi books published outside Iran in 2023 by BBC Farsi.