Sara Sasani

Sara Sasani (b. 1985, Tehran, Iran) is an interdisciplinary visual artist, photographer, and researcher working at the intersection of contemporary art, sociology, and visual culture. She holds an M.A. in Sociology and an M.A. in Art Research from Islamic Azad University in Tehran, as well as an associate degree in photojournalism from the Faculty of News, University of Applied Science and Technology. Sasani began her career in 2003 as a documentary and news photographer collaborating with newspapers, magazines, and international media platforms. Since 2016, her artistic practice has increasingly focused on conceptual and staged photography alongside video art, installation, mixed media, and performance. Her work explores themes of gender, social restrictions, environmental concerns, and the politics of representation in Middle Eastern societies, particularly the lived experiences of women in Iran. Her works have been presented in ten solo exhibitions and more than fifty group exhibitions and international festivals across Europe, Asia, and North America, including presentations in Germany, Austria, Spain, and North Macedonia. In addition to her artistic practice, Sasani works as a writer and researcher in the field of visual culture and sociology of photography and has published several essays and articles on photography, digital image culture, and contemporary art. She has been teaching photography and sociology of art at universities and art institutes in Tehran since 2014. In 2024 she was awarded the Peace and Human Rights Fellowship from the Golden Global Institute in Chicago.