Sanaz Safanasab

Maryam “Sanaz” Safanasab (b. Tehran-Iran) is a visual artist whose work is rooted in exploration of hybridity and the concept of opacity within cross-cultural contexts. Her art practice explores the relationship between identity and space, and how this relationship is shaped by experiences of migration and displacement. Through drawing, sculpture, and fiber Art, she investigates the quality of lines and forms that help explore whatever is relational and fluid.
Safanasab holds an MFA in Art from San Francisco State University and received the Cadogan Contemporary Art Award and the Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement, among others. Her work has been exhibited at SOMArts, 500 Capp Street, SFAC, and more.

Master of Fine Arts, Art, San Francisco State University, 2023

Master of Art, French, Azad University of Tehran-Iran, 2012 

Bachelor of Art, French, Azad University of Tehran-Iran, 2008

“Metamorphosis”, Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland CA, 2024
“Transcending Physicality: The Essence of Place”, SFAC Main Gallery, San Francisco CA, 2023
“Healing, Community, Nobility”, Union Street Gallery, Chicago IL, 2023
“Other Structures”, Fine Arts Gallery of SFSU, San Francisco CA, 2023
“Pyramid Scheme”, Bass and Reiner Gallery, San Francisco CA, 2023
“Future Tense 2023”, The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE, 2023
“Mirror Material: Southern Exposure’s 31st Annual Juried Exhibition”, Southern Exposure, San Francisco CA, 2022
“The Way Things Also Are!”, 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco CA, 2022
“The Annual Murphy & Cadogan Art Awards Exhibition”, SOMArts Cultural Center, San
Francisco CA, 2022
“Matrix”, Root Division, San Francisco CA, 2022
“CCACA 2022”, First Street Gallery, Davis CA, 2022
“Fiber Art: The Expressive & Innovative”, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley CA,
2022
“Down with the Whiteness”, ICA SF, San Francisco CA, 2022
“Embrace”, 4th Street Fine Art (FSFA), Berkeley CA, 2022
“Human Faces and Figures”, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach CA, 2022
“CCACA 2021”, The Hunt Boyer gallery, Davis CA, 2022
“Migrant Birds”, Martin Wong Gallery, SFSU, San Francisco CA, 2021
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