Sanaz Mazinani

Assistant Professor

Sanaz Mazinani is an artist, educator, and curator based in Toronto. Working across the disciplines of photography, sculpture, and large-scale multimedia installations, Mazinani creates informational objects that invite a rethinking of how we see, suspending the viewer between observation and knowledge. Informed by the visual rhetoric and confounding presence of contemporary media circulation, her multidisciplinary practice aims to politicise the proliferation and distribution of images and introduce critical reflection. She holds an undergraduate degree from Ontario College of Art & Design and an MFA from Stanford University.

Her work has appeared in solo exhibitions at institutions including the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the West Vancouver Museum, and Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, California. Her projects have been featured in venues throughout Canada as well as USA, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Iran, Switzerland, the UAE, and the UK. Her work has been written about in Artforum, artnet News, Border Crossings, Canadian Art, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, among others. She has received grants from the Zellerbach Family Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, and her work is held in public collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the San Francisco International Airport.

Research Interests

Photography, Image Culture, Machine Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Circulation & consumption of images; visioning the self.