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Raha Fard

Artist member since 2021

BIO 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. Find her updated CV in her website: https://raha-fard.format.com/about

Work

Woven Bodies/ Woven Series/ 2024
The Woven Bodies 1-(Woven Series)
  • Raha Fard
  • 44" x 68"
  • $1500 buy — $100 try
#persian rug #people #rug #diaspora #photography
The Woven Bodies 3 (Woven Series)
  • Raha Fard
  • 44" x 68"
  • $1500 buy — $100 try
#diaspora #figure #photography #people #rug
The Woven Bodies 4 ( Woven Series)
  • Raha Fard
  • 44" x 68"
  • $1500 buy — $100 try
#photography #persian rug #diaspora #figure #rug
Woven Bodies/ Woven Series/ 2023
The Woven Bodies 2-(Woven Series)
  • Raha Fard
  • 44" x 68"
  • $1500 buy — $100 try
#persian rug #weaving #rug #digital collage #figure
Woven Bodies/ Digital Series/ 2023
The Woven Bodies 1(Digital Series)
  • Raha Fard
  • 6" x 9"
  • $250 buy — $25 try
#digital collage #diaspora #figure #rug #persian rug
The Woven Bodies 2(Digital Series)
  • Raha Fard
  • 6" x 9"
  • $250 buy — $25 try
#people #photography #rug #digital collage #diaspora
The Woven Bodies3(Digital Series)
  • Raha Fard
  • 6" x 9"
  • $250 buy — $25 try
#figure #diaspora #digital collage #photography #rug
The Woven Bodies4( Digital Series)
  • Raha Fard
  • 6" x 9"
  • $250 buy — $25 try
#photography #persian rug #figure #rug #people
Mohr-e-Mehr/ Installation/ 2022
Mohr-e Mehr ( The Seal of Melancholy)
  • Raha Fard
  • 72" x 72" x 2.5"
  • $5500 buy — $250 try
#infinity reflection #figurative #diaspora #floral pattern #persian rug
Solitude Series/ 2021
Solitude 1
  • Raha Fard
  • 30" x 30"
  • $1000 buy — $100 try
#figurative #patterning
Solitude 2
  • Raha Fard
  • 30" x 36"
  • $1000 buy — $100 try
#figurative #patterning
Solitude 4
  • Raha Fard
  • 30" x 36"
  • $1000 buy — $100 try
#figurative #patterning
Solitude3
  • Raha Fard
  • 30" x 30"
#patterning #figurative
Solitude Series/ 2022
Solitude 6
  • Raha Fard
  • 30" x 30"
  • $1000 buy — $100 try
#figurative #patterning
Solitude 5
  • Raha Fard
  • 30" x 36"
#figurative #patterning
MOST VIEWED
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Solitude 1
Raha Fard
Upcoming Exhibitions
2024-01-21

Ignite Gallery-OCAD U
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Select Past Exhibitions
2022

Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
Solo Exhibition-Melancholy

2023

Graduate Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto,
The Aliens aren’t Coming

2023

OCAD University, Toronto
Queer Pride & Prejudice: Transcultural Queer& Asian Futurities,

2023

Open Space Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto,
Too Big to Fail

2023

OCAD University, Toronto
What The Thunder Says, Poetry Month Exhibition,

2023

Central Gallery, Toronto
Index, Interaction- Shaped Exhibition

2022

OCAD University, Toronto
The Incomplete, Speculative Fragments, First Year Graduate Showcase,

2022

OCAD University, Toronto
Muddles, puddles, and the Anthropocene

2022

Richmond Hill Center for Performing Art, Richmond Hill, Canada
Richmond Hill Art Walk

2022

Beaux Art Gallery, Brampton, Canada
Untitled Reality(A journey with Abstract Art)

2022

Seoul, Korea
ASYAAF (Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival)

2022

Toronto
Toronto Outdoor Art Fair,Online

2022

Chancellor Jaime Watt’s Gallery, First Canadian Place, Toronto,
Chancellor’s Exhibition, Creative Resilience Resilient Creativity,

2022

OCAD University, Toronto
Archives of Merit, OSA to OCAD Exhibition

2022

OCAD University, Toronto
GradEx107, OCAD U's 107th Annual Graduate Exhibition

2022

OCAD University, Toronto
OCAD U Art Auction (A Drawing and Painting Catalogue Fundraiser),

2022

Venice, Italy
Anima Mundi, ITSLIQUID International Art Fair,

2021

Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
OFF the Wall Exhibition

2021

Scarborough Arts, Toronto, Canada
New Depths, Scarborough Arts' 36th Annual Juried Exhibition

2021

Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
City of Art Exhibition 3

2021

HeART of Healthcare Gallery, kunstmatrix, Toronto, Canada
Safe and Respectful Maternal and Newborn Care online exhibition

2021

artasiam platform, Montreal, Canada
Ongoing online exhibition on artasiam platform

2021

Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
Summer Time Exhibition

2021

Eran Art Gallery, Artnet & kunstmatrix
New Era Online Exhibition

2020

OCAD University
Meta-Figure, the Body in Paint

2020

Mill Pond Gallery, Richmond Hill, Canada
Richmond Hill Group of Artists Exhibition

2020

OCAD University
Narrative through Digital Space

2019

OCAD University
First Year Students Exhibition

2018

North York Civic Centre, Toronto, Canada
Willowdale Group of Artists Exhibition,

2016

Milad Tower, Tehran, Iran
Youth Art Exhibition

Accolades
2023


Graduate Studies First Year Award, OCAD University

2023


OGS, Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2022


OGS, Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2022


Patricia Joy Alpert Memorial Award, Fourth Year Awards

2021


Scarborough Arts' 36th Annual Juried Exhibition Staff Pick Winner for Visual Art, 2021

2021

Recipient
RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers Career Launcher’s program for Partial Gallery’s OCAD University Artist Showcase

2021

Got into
Farhang Short Film Festival

2021

Awardee
OCAD U President’s Award for Best Cinematography

Press
2023

Mehri Publication-London
Mahv-Shodegi (Evanescence), Farsi Novel

2022

ITSLIQUID Group-Italy
Interview-Raha Fard

2022

Germany
Beyond Words Literary Magazine

2021

Canada
Big Art Book, Scarborough Arts' 36th Annual Juried Exhibition,

Residencies
2020

OCAD U- Mapua University
Collaborative Online International Learning Residency

Education
2024

OCAD U
Graduate-MFA

2022

OCAD U
Undergraduate-Bachelor of Fine Art

2008

Iran University of Science and Technology
Master of Telecommunication Engineering

2002

KNTU University
Bachelor of Telecommunication Engineering

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