Shahrzad Amin

Shahrzad Amin is an Iranian-Canadian award-winning interdisciplinary artist with more than twelve years of diverse experiences as a sculptor, multimedia and installation artist, model designer, and potter. She creates socially engaging art pieces that invoke thoughts and encourage conversations about socio-cultural issues that surround us. Shahrzad makes original pieces that truly move people to feel intense emotions. Her interest in fundamental social issues such as democracy, human rights, equality, and migration has informed an art practice examining diasporic and socio-cultural subjectivities through the lenses of art practice, sensory ethnographic filmmaking, architectural design, gender, and language. Her works highlight a social openness and necessity for global international connectivity, by applying the historical eastern architectural elements for overcoming cultural distances. She obtained a BFA from Tehran University of Art in 2010 and an MFA from OCADU in 2020.

Shahrzad recent collection titled "Witnesses" is inspired by statues known collectively as the "Tell Asmar Hoard" that are famous for having wide eyes and a sense of humble attentiveness.

The pristine simple design of her sculptures offers a vast space in which to expand our minds. We can see a deep innocence, and a compassionate gaze in their eyes that never forces us to venture too deeply into them, but rather leaves it entirely up to us as to how deeply we'd like to get lost in that innocent compassionate gaze. Furthermore, by sculpting Witnesses, she places herself in other people's eyes, feels their pain, sorrow, hope, joy, loss, and vulnerability; challenging her own belief system.