Sara Rahbar


Sara Rahbar is an Iranian mixed-media contemporary artist. Her work ranges from photography to sculpture to installation, all of which reveal and transform the artist’s personal experiences and are intimately autobiographical. While her initial practice explored autobiographical ideas of national belonging, her current art practice addresses issues of the human condition on a broader-scale. She is currently based in New York City.

Biography

Sara Rahbar born 1976 in Tehran, Iran. In 1982, Rahbar and her family left Iran during the beginning of the Iranian Revolution and the early stages of the Iran-Iraq War, which has left many traumatic memories that have influenced her work.
Rahbar studied at Fashion Institute of Technology from 1996 until 2000 and in 2004 she continued her education at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.
The first body of work that created international recognition for the artist was the Flag Series, in which traditional fabrics and objects are reworked as collages that form various incarnations of the American and Iranian flag, exploring ideas of national belonging, as well as the conflicting role of flags as symbols of ideological and nationalistic violence.
Rahbar's work is in various public museum collections including Centre Pompidou, British Museum, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, among others.

Solo exhibitions