Golnaz Afraz

The Board of Directors of the Villa Seurat Foundation is pleased to announce the name of the winner of the call for projects for 2023. The jury, made up of N'Goné Fall, Thierry Forien, Juliette Frescaline, Martin Kiefer and Sophie Nordmann , chose the work of Golnaz Afraz to create the work which will be unveiled in 2023 and exhibited permanently at the Maison des Etudiants de la Francophonie at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris.
The competition was high level with more than 150 entries.

Winner of the Saatchi Art Showdown prize for ''Painted world",2015. Golnaz AFRAZ explores a variety of themes in her work, each of which can be seen as poignant in terms of both individual and universal experience. She explores notions of life in the philosophical sense, and in the everyday, all through analysing man and his relationship with nature and his surroundings.
Golnaz’s intention in her paintings is to create a story and to allow the viewer to draw their own conclusions. The starting point might be the memory of a scene from daily life or from a play or film she has seen. She paints this reality in multiple layers, depicting various fragments of time on the same plane and superimposing forms. She leaves sections of her paint...

She was born in Tehran in 1981 and now lives in France. She attended the University of Azad in Tehran for her undergraduate studies in painting. She has also received two Masters of Arts in Fine Art - from the University of Tarbiat Modarres in Tehran and the University of Strasbourg in France. She has participated in several solo and joint exhibitions in Europe and Asia since 2005, including Art Paris at the Grand Palais in Paris.
B.A "Painting", University Azad , Tehran , Iran
M.A "Visual Arts", University of Strasbourg, France
M.A '' Painting '', University of Tarbit Modarres, Iran
Membership: Member of Association of Iranian Painters

Solo Exhibitions:

2025 Gallery Brûlée, Strasbourg
2024 "Dernière femme", centre d'art dudelange, Dudelange، luxembourg
2024 "J'ai quittée mon corps", autour de l،'image, lyon, France.
2023 Latuvu Gallery, Bâges, France
2022 Brulée Gallery , Strasbourg, France
2021 Autour de l'image Gallery, Lyon, France
2021 Brûlée Gallery, Strasbourg
2019 Sans frontieres , La villa d'illkirch, France
2019Brûlée Gallery, Strasbourg.
2017Brûlée Gallery Strasbourg, France
2015 Brûlée Gallery, strasbourg, France
2015 Brûlée Gallery, strasbourg, France
2012 Brûlée Gallery, strasbourg, France
2011 Mah Gallery,
Tehran 2010 Quedar Gallery
-The selected Young Artistes Exhibitions, Strasbourg-France
2008 Mah Gallery, Tehran

Group Exhibitions:

2025 Brulee Gallery, Strasbourg
2025 Brussel artfair, Belgique
2025 London artfair, Gala fine art london
2024 Group show , Cube vernet Gallery Avignon, France
2024 group show ,Riana Raouna gallery, Nicosia, Cypres
2024 Saharboluky gallery,Toronto,Canada
2024 Amsteram artfair
2024 Fable de la fontaine, Brulée Gallery.France
2024 london artfair, Galafine art, london
2023 Almost Paradise , Riana Raouna Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
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