Homa Khosravi

2024 BIPOC Studio Award Winner
In residency from May 1st to June 30th

Homa Khosravi

Homa Khosravi, (b. Tehran, Iran) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, She received her MFA from Simon Fraser University and BFA in Painting from the Tehran University of Art. Her work touches on surrealism, abstraction and worldbuilding with various “more than human” creatures through a multitude of mediums, including painting, video and sculpture installation. Khosravi explores the human body and its connection to memory, fantasy and the uncanny, highlighting a foundation of humor found within. Khosravi investigates experiences of her body and mind in relation to her environment, vis à vis the process of making the artworks, the choice of colours, and materiality within the installation.

During her residency at Griffin, Khosravi will explore the personal representation of the Persian garden and the underlying politics behind the situation in the Middle East. She situates gardens as spaces of mediation, leisure, and care, and yet simultaneously act as spaces of contention to ask: who is given access to these coveted spaces? How would these spaces look when they are empty of humans, when strange creatures take over the gardens, and animals are the main characters and carriers of the message.

Khosravi lives and works on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations since 2020.