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DEGREES
2024 Postdoctoral Research, Art des images et art contemporain Laboratory (AIAC), Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France.
2023 PhD in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of the Arts, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France.
2014 Master’s Degree (Research), Contemporary Art and New Media, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France.
2013 Master’s Degree (Research), Visual Arts, Aix-Marseille University I, Aix-en-Provence, France.
AWARDS
2024 Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Prize for the project Exile(s), War(s) and Creation(s). Images of Resistance in the Service of History, in collaboration with Sorbonne Nouvelle University.
2023 Nomination for the AICA France Art Criticism Prize, nominated by Raphaël Cuir (INHA).
2018 London Feminist Film Festival, Official Selection for the short film Nazanin, London, United Kingdom.
2018 Oniros Film Awards, IMDb-qualifying festival, Finalist with the film Nazanin.
2014 Women’s Voices Now Film Festival, Second Prize (Experimental Category), Los Angeles, United States.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2025 Éclats de douleur, La Fab (Fondation agnès b.), Paris, France.
2023
My Body Is Mine, solo exhibition organized by the Haute-Garonne Departmental Council for International Women’s Day, Toulouse, France.
Fragment of Iran: Colors of Resistance, solo exhibition curated by Isabelle Suret, Centre 7.5, Paris, France.
2022 Proche, Enfermé, Clos, curated by Hyunji Kim, Université Paris 8 Gallery, Saint-Denis, France.
2019 Breaking the Present, interactive performance in collaboration with artist Telma Ha (Compagnie Voix), Château Éphémère – Fabrique Sonore et Numérique, Carrières-sous-Poissy, France.
2018 The Emotional Paradox, proposed and organized by Professor François Jeune, Building A Gallery, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France.
2017 Another World, Queen Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Rébellion, group exhibition organized by Diako Art as part of the 12th edition of the Quinzaine de l’Égalité et de la Diversité, with the support of the City of Bordeaux, Espace Mably, Bordeaux, France.
2025
Weaving Places, Interlacing Memories, Performance Day Event organized by Mehdy Yarmohammadi, Shakirail Artists’ Studios, Paris, France.
Plastic Grace, performance presented during Art Even Nönude, an event conceived by Sarah Cassenti – Atelier d’art Mogly Speix, Bagnolet, France.
2024
You Merit Better, You Merit All, Performance Day Event organized by Mehdy Yarmohammadi, Shakirail Artists’ Studio, Paris, France.
Écho du Présent, curated by Anaid Demir and Sonia Perrin, organized by Your Art, Musée Transitoire, Paris, France.
2023
15th Montreal Underground Film Festival (MUFF 15), with the short film Nazanin, Montreal, Canada.
Anonymously Iran: An Exhibition Amplifying the Voices of Iranian Women, CULTUR LAB LIC, New York, USA.
My Body, My Choice, group exhibition, Muratcentoventidue Artecontemporanea Gallery, Bari, Italy.
PHASES, group exhibition, Pia Myrvold Art Foundation, Stavanger, Norway.
Variabilités dans les échos, 26th Traverse Video Festival, curated by Simone Dompeyre, Toulouse, France.
2022
Voix exilées: Iranian Women Artists, Maison de la Création et de l’Innovation (MACI), Grenoble, France.
Capacité (presque) illimitée, 25th Traverse Video International Meetings, curated by Simone Dompeyre, Toulouse, France.
2021
Avis de passage, Les Instants Vidéo Festival, curated by Marc Mercier, Marseille, France.
L’Œil d’Oodaaq Festival – Retrospective, with the video (Re)actions, Rennes, France.
Corps éclipsé, espace nocif, Carte Blanche Iran, L’Œil d’Oodaaq Festival, Rennes, France.
2020
Corps confiné, âme libérée, Casablanca International Video Art Festival (FIAV), Casablanca, Morocco.
Sensitivity in the Face of Violence: Iranian Women Artists, NewMediaFest 2020, in collaboration with Wilfried Agricola De Cologne, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin and Cologne, Germany.
2019
Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Official Selection 2019, Bogotá, Colombia.
Effondrements / Soulèvements, group exhibition, Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques, curated by Marc Mercier, Marseille, France.
2019
Corps encore, group exhibition, curated by Gabriel Soucheyre (VideoFormes), Le Non-Lieu, Roubaix, France.
Transhumanism, Casablanca International Video Art Festival (FIAV), Casablanca, Morocco.
2018
31st Les Instants Vidéo Festival, video and digital installation exhibition, curated by Marc Mercier, La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France.
London Feminist Film Festival, Nazanin, short film, London, United Kingdom.
Casablanca International Video Art Festival (FIAV), with the video Women Must Be Beautiful, Casablanca, Morocco.
Cabinet de Curiosités, group exhibition with the video Water, Earth, Air, VideoFormes, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
2017
I Am a Tree, performance, co-organized by Katia Légeret and Élisabeth Gracy, RMN–Grand Palais, Paris, France.
Quand vient l’étranger, Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques, curated by Marc Mercier, Le Gyptis Cinema, Marseille, France.
Everything Is Fine in the Middle East, group exhibition organized by Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques, FRAC, Marseille, France.
2016
Poetic State of Emergency, Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques Festival, curated by Marc Mercier, Marseille, France.
L’Œil d’Oodaaq International Video Art Festival – Images Nomades et Poétiques, Nantes, Rennes and Saint-Malo, France.
22nd Casablanca International Video Art Festival (FIAV), Casablanca, Morocco.
Atypiquement trouble, Traverse International Video Art Festival, Toulouse, France.
Refugee, ArtvideoKOELN International Video Art Festival, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Shillong, India.
2015
28th Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques Festival, curated by Marc Mercier, Marseille, France.
Transversalité, exhibition curated by François Jeune, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris, France.
Nietzsche Was a Man, video art exhibition of Iranian women artists, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland.
2014
Nietzsche Was a Man, video art exhibition of Iranian women artists, Malmö Konsthall Art Center, Malmö, Sweden.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Élodie Loustau, Variabilités en échos, Traverse Vidéo Festival Catalogue, Toulouse, 2023, p. 194.
Simone Dompeyre, Variabilités en échos, Traverse Vidéo Festival Catalogue, Toulouse, 2023, pp. 194 and 213.
Simone Dompeyre, Capacité (presque) illimitée, Traverse Vidéo Festival Catalogue, Toulouse, 2022, p. 209.
Jean-Luc Cougy, Effondrements/Soulèvements dans les friches de la Belle de Mai, Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille, 2019.
Mireille Ferreira, “Parya Vatankhah, Iranian Artist”, La Revue de Téhéran, Paris, France, 2014.
Nietzsche Was a Man: 19 Female Video Artists, Art Actuel, Paris, Spring 2014.
Nietzsche Was a Man, curated by Alysse Stepanian, exhibition catalogue, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual Museum, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico, 2013.
Current Roles and Research Engagements
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Paris 8 (2024–2025)
Lecturer, University of Paris 8
Associate member of the AIAC laboratory (Art des images et art contemporain), University of Paris 8
Member of the research group Arts, Media, Exile (AME), affiliated with the Institute for Research on Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (IRCAV), Sorbonne Nouvelle
Co-recipient of the “Arts & Social Sciences” grant from the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2024), for the project : Exile(s), War(s), and Creations: Images of Resistance in the Service of History
SELECTED CONFERENCES
2025
Opening and Organization, “Displaced Presences: Exile, Uprooting and Memory in Iranian Visual Art and Cinema in Exile”, study day organized by Parya Vatankhah and Kateryna Lobodenko, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, October 2, 2025.
2025
International conference “Research-Creation and Digital Practices: Methodologies and Reflexivities”, May 22–23, Catholic University of Lille, directed by David Faltot and Zineb Majdouli.
2024
The Body in the Works of Iranian Women Artists in Exile, Master–PhD seminar “Performative Forms and Practices: What Questions Today?”, directed by Georges Vigarello, Pascale Weber and Sylvie Roques, EHESS, Paris, France.
2024
Round table “The Victories of Iranian Women: How Far Will the Protest Movement in Iran Go?”, Haute-Garonne Department, March 8, 2024, Pavillon de la République, Toulouse, France.
2023
Parya Vatankhah, “Iranian Women Artists Engaged in Exile,” conference “Creations in the Face of War and Exile,” Maison de la Recherche – Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France.
Round table, “Why the Women?”, Club 7.5, organized by Isabelle Suret, Paris, France.
Round table, “Woman, Life, Freedom,” Ombres Blanches Bookstore, Toulouse, France.
2022
Round table, “Taking Over Public Space,” Doctoral Day of the Litt&Art Laboratory, Grenoble, France.
2021
Publication, Celebrity Café #4 magazine, under the direction of Jacques Donguy, Sarah Cassenti and Jean-François Bory. Talk as a writer, Le Générateur, Paris, France.
2020
Publication of “Censored Body, Displaced Body,” Celebrity Café #4 magazine. Talk as a writer, Satellite Gallery, Paris, France.
Round table, “My Body for Your Loneliness,” Casablanca International Video Art Festival (FIAV), directed by Majid Seddati, Casablanca, Morocco.
2019
Censored women body, director Nathalie Coutelet and Raphaëlle Doyon, PH. D seminary, talk, Paris 8 University, Saint-Denis, France
2018
Political art and the artist body, EDESTA, PH. D seminary, talk, Paris 8 University, Saint-Denis, France
Art in the face of geopolitical borders and exile, Talk, CRAL/EHESS, Paris
2017
Artist at Venice Biennale, Seminary of Eric Bonnet, talk, INHA, Paris
Shirin Neshat or the poetry of absence, conferences, Padua University, Padua, Italy
2017
Theatrical performance at Museum, International Seminary, Labex-Arts-H2H.Fr, director Katia Légeret, talk, Guimet national museum, Paris, France
2016
Dream archives, talk, PH. D conference, INHA, Paris, France
Iranian contemporary art: a political art? Invited as an artist, conference, Caen, France
Transculturality of gesture, PH. D seminar, Paris 8 University, Saint- Denis, France
Representation of the body in politics art, Seminary of Eric Bonnet, INHA, Paris
2015
Laughing and the violence of the History, Lecture of M. Liberge, invited artist, Paris 8 University, Saint-Denis, France
Seminary of Eric Bonnet, academic research, INHA, Paris
For an art of the meeting, Seminary of G. Grammare, talk and art work presentation, Sorbonne I’University
2014 Act of creation, Transversality, seminary of F. Jeune, talk, INHA, Paris,
