Farnaz Gholami is continuously exploring issues around geographical, cultural, and social dislocation. Through her paintings she creates multi-layered picture plains, using different textures and glazes to conceal and reveal part of the narrative scene in each painting.
Gholami has developed a curious, uncertain and solitary gaze, whereby there is usually an absence of human figures in ambiguous landscapes or interiors. The oddly unfamiliar nature of these places creates an uneasy visual balancing act between imagination and reality, abstraction and form, which suggests a different place in-between. A ‘non-place’, which holds the possibility of the acceptance of unknown experience.
Lives and works in London. Gholami is a recipient of the MAFA in Fine Art Painting, the Slade School of Fine Art (2019) and the Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, the Chelsea College of Arts (2017), and Post-Baccalaureate, Brandeis University, MA, USA (2013).Gholami was shortlisted for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2019) and was a runner up for the Tiffany & Co. Outset Studio Makers Award (2019).Recent selected exhibitions include: 'Echo, eco, Co, O, Heck!', Proposition Gallery, London (2021), 'Squeezed' and 'Group Show', Karen Tronel Gallery, London (2020), 'Gestura', The Koppel Project (London), 'Graduate Art Prize 2019 Shortlist Exhibition', Art and Herbert Smith Freehills (London), 'But We Don't Leave Pyramids', Charsoo Gallery, Teheran, Iran (2019), 'Home', Jordan Gallery, Teheran, Iran, 'The Field', ASC Gallery, London (2018).
