Marzieh Mosavarzadeh is an Iranian-Canadian artist, educator, and researcher whose work bridges conceptual art and art education. She holds a PhD from The University of British Columbia, where her doctoral research, Making–Place A/r/tographically, explored the concept of Making–Place as both the creation of place and a place for making, emphasizing collaborative arts-based methodologies.
She also holds an MFA and BFA in Visual Arts, with a practice rooted in printmaking, drawing, painting, walking, digital media, and sound art. Marzieh integrates these diverse mediums into an interdisciplinary, invitational, and speculative approach that informs both her artmaking and pedagogy.
Living and working on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples in so-called Vancouver, BC, Marzieh’s work is deeply influenced by her experiences as an immigrant artist and scholar. This inbetweenness has shaped her love for place (topophilia), a theme central to her artistic and scholarly practices. Her work explores the potentialities of walking in/with place, creating art in response to this practice, and cultivating a sense of place through artmaking.
Marzieh’s artistic practice and arts-based research have been recognized and supported by numerous awards, including the University of Calgary’s Graduate Students’ Association Award, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) Award, the Jeanette Andrews Scholarship in Art Education, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship.
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