Sara Mameni (born March 29, 1977) is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at
University of California, Berkeley.
Education
Mameni completed a
Bachelor of Fine Arts
A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students for pursuing a professional education in the visual, fine or performing arts. It is also called Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) in some cases.
Background
The Bachelor ...
in Visual Arts from
Emily Carr University of Art and Design, a
Master of Arts from the
University of British Columbia, and a
PhD PHD or PhD may refer to:
* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification
Entertainment
* '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series
* ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic
* Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group
** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ...
in Art History from the
University of California, San Diego.
Career
Mameni was an education coordinator at the
Vancouver Art Gallery, a postdoctoral fellow at the
University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Director of the Aesthetics and Politics MA program at the
California Institute for the Arts
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of bot ...
. Mameni has written for ''
Canadian Art'', ''
Fuse Magazine'', ''Filip Review'', ''Signs'', and ''Journal of Women and Performance''. In June 2011, Mameni curated the exhibition, ''Snail Fever'', at the Third Line Gallery in
Dubai. Mameni also has an interdisciplinary art practice that includes sound installation, drawing, and creative and scholarly writing. Mameni's artworks are in permanent collections at the
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the
Vancouver Art Gallery.
Select bibliography
Writing
* "Dermopolitics: Erotics of the Muslim Body in Pain", Women and Performance: ''A Journal of Feminist Theory'', 2017.
* "Car Flirting and Morality Cruising: Neurotic Gazes and Paranoid Glances in Contemporary Iranian Art", ''AL- Raida'', 2013.
* "Adventures in History:
Isabelle Pauwels
Isabelle Pauwels (born 1975 in Kortrijk, Belgium) is a Vancouver-based artist who works primarily in video-based art. Pauwels received a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and obtained an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Pau ...
at the Henry Art Gallery",''Canadian Art'', 2010.
* "Invasion of the Cybernetic Hand and Other Predicaments: Kristen Lucas at Or Gallery", ''Fillip Review'', 2007.
Exhibitions
* ''Again and Again and Again: Serial Formats and Repetitive Actions'',
Vancouver Art Gallery, 2012.
* ''Everything Should be As Simple As Possible But Not Simpler'', Western Front, 2008.
* Between Us: Toronto/Vancouver Exchange, YYZ Artists' Outlet, 2008.
* ''White Noise: Sara Mameni and
Isabelle Pauwels
Isabelle Pauwels (born 1975 in Kortrijk, Belgium) is a Vancouver-based artist who works primarily in video-based art. Pauwels received a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and obtained an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Pau ...
'', State Gallery, 2005.
* ''The Poster Project'', Artspeak, 2004.
Awards
In 2009, Mameni was awarded the Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize for her account of artist Denise Oleksijczuks’ creation of the film ''Role''. Mameni has received grants from
Canada Council for the Arts and the Mary Lily Research Grant.
References
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1977 births
Living people
21st-century Canadian artists
Canadian women artists
Emily Carr University of Art and Design alumni
University of British Columbia alumni
University of California, San Diego alumni