Sara Madandar
New Orleans , LA, United States
About Sara Madandar
Sara Madandar is a US based artist from Iran. She got her MFA at the University of Texas at Austin and her BA in painting from Azad University of Tehran. She currently works in painting, sculpture, video and performance. Her work is mostly about the relationship of the human to their bodies and covers. Her most recent accolade was an award from the Texas Visual Artists Association (TVAA) in their 2016 exhibition in Dallas. She has also won a 2015 award, curated by Jessica Beck of the Andy Warhol museum, from the Southeastern College Art Conference. Some of her work was also featured in Austin City Hall as part of the 2016 People’s Gallery. She materializes the issues of existing in an in-between space through construction and deconstruction of the canvas. Her work evokes a sensation out of destruction and touches on the cultural displacements of corporality. Her sculptures are objects related to the human body and are in the actual size of the body. Her video, video installations and performances are influenced by her emigration and comparison between two cultures.
Education:
2011-2014 | MASTER IN FINE ARTS | THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
•Studio Art specializing in painting, with various works also produced in Performance and Video Art
2004-2009 | BACHELOR OF ARTS | AZAD UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN, IRAN
•Specialization in painting.
Events:
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2017 — Residency at Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI)”Equal Justice” — Santa Fe, NM
2016 — TVAA(Texas visual arts association), second place, Curated by Andrea Karnes the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth — Dallas, TX
2015 — SECAC member show, second place, curated by Jessica Beck of the Andy Warhol museum — Pittsburgh, PA
2013 — Quaid-E-Azam Scholarship at the University of Texas at Austin —Austin, TX
2013 — Residency at Vermont Studio Center — Johnson, VT
2013 — Marshal F. Wells Fellowship and Scholarship Endowment — Austin, TX
2012 — Marshal F. Wells Fellowship and Scholarship Endowment — Austin, TX
2011 — William and Betty Newlin Presidential Exhibition — Austin, TX
Exhibitions:
GALLERY SHOWS
2017 — Group show at the Irving Arts Center “6th Annual Juried International Exhibition of Contemporary Islamic Art” — Irving, TX
2017 — Group show at Viridian Artists gallery “Selfies & Self-Portraits: 21st C Artists See Themselves” — New York, NY
2017 — Group show at Contemporary Art Center(CAC) — New Orleans, LA
2017 — Group show at Southeastern Louisiana University Contemporary Art Gallery — Hammond, LA
2017 — Part of Newcomb museum curatorial group “Beyond the Canvas” — New Orleans, LA
2017 — Group show as part of Austin West Studio Tour — Austin, TX
2017 — Group show at Elizabeth Ney Museum — Austin, TX
2017— HOUSE of Wahala: art auction part of Fusebox Festival at Women & their works gallery — Austin, TX
2017 — Group show at Tipton Gallery “32nd Positive/Negative” — Johnson City, TN
2017— Group show at Foundry Art Center “Luck of the Draw” — St. Charles, MO
2016 — TVAA National exhibition — Mesquite, TX
2016 — Group show at 701 Gallery — Austin, TX
2016 — Solo show at Courtyard gallery — Austin, TX
2016-2017— Group show at People's gallery— Austin, TX
2016 — Group show at Asian American Resource Center (AARC) — Austin, TX
2016 — Group show at Co-Lab Project gallery — Austin, TX
2015 — SECAC Members Exhibition — Pittsburgh, PA
2014 — Graduate thesis show “Pool”, at the Visual Arts Center — Austin, TX
2014 — Solo show “Something Left Behind” at Co-Lab Project gallery — Austin, TX
2013 — “InterConnections” exhibition at the WoCa Project gallery — Fort Worth, TX
2013 — Open studio exhibition “SOMETHING” — Austin, TX
2013 — “Something Lost” exhibition at the Nelsen Partners gallery — Austin, TX
2012 — Open studio exhibition “Absence” — Austin, TX
2010 — “The Same Pain” exhibition in Azadi Tower gallery — Tehran, Iran
2009 — Solo show “Self-Portrait” at Banafsheh gallery — Tehran, Iran
PERFORMANCE ART
2014 — Stage performance “Being/With Others” at the Theater Lab — Austin, TX
2013 — Street performance “Behind the Black Veil” — Austin, TX
2013 — Collaboration in the public performance”Beauty” by Wura-Natasha Ogunji — Austin, TX
2012 — Public-Participatory performance “The Void” — Austin, TX
VIDEO ART
2016— Video installation “The Sidewalk” at Asian American Resource Center (AARC) — Austin, TX
2015 — “30 Seconds” at MOM gallery- Austin, TX
2014 — “The Prayer” at Co-Lab Project gallery — Austin, TX
2014 — Video installation “Obscene Bodies” at Visual Arts Center — Austin, TX
2013 — Video installation “The Sidewalk” at Co-Lab Project gallery — Austin, TX
2013 — “Counting the Moments” screened at The Shed — Austin, TX
