2d • Farnaz Gholami
Introducing Farnaz Gholami
Farnaz Gholami is an Iranian visual artist born in Dublin and raised in Tehran. She graduated with distinction from the MFA Painting programme at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2019, and also holds a Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts and a Post-Baccalaureate in Studio Art from Brandeis University. Her practice explores place not as a fixed location, but as a shifting psychological and emotional state shaped by memory, displacement, and cultural forces.
Drawing on her diasporic experiences of living across different countries, Gholami creates landscapes in which the natural world is interrupted by psychological and material distortions. Through fluid brushwork, playful forms, and vivid colour, her paintings channel feelings of dislocation and rootlessness while opening space to question ideas of belonging, identity, and otherness. Within these fractured environments, a fragile sense of freedom and renewal emerges.
Gholami has exhibited internationally, including at Nuweland Gallery and Zona Maco Art Fair in Mexico, What If The World Gallery in South Africa, Niru Ratnam and Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix in London, as well as the Royal Academy of Arts and Saatchi Gallery. She was shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2019 and was a finalist for the UKNA Robert Walters Award in 2022.
Website: https://www.farnaz.net
Instagram: @farnaz.gholami
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Introducing Farnaz Gholami
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