Artist bio: Sahar Sepahdari or Sailor Noom lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. She holds an M.F.A. from the Low-Residency program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.F.A. and B.A. from Parsons and Eugene Lang at The New School. She decodes social norms and cultural intersections through radical humor, focusing on object-oriented feminism and time-based art. Writing is at the core of her practice as is the poetics of place. As an immigrant/refugee of the Iran/Iraq War, much of their work addresses the radical joy at the core of mourning. There are those that have referred to their practice as that of a death doula. They work within the axis of healing as a space for multiplying meaning through translation and embodiment. They are a video and performance artist, and their recent work focuses on animation, while she practices digital painting as an outsider painter and poet. She has shown her work in The Wrong Biennale, at the Film Makers Coop (New American Cinema), U10 Art Space (Belgrade), and Fountain House Gallery (NYC).
Sahar Sepahdari or Sailor Noom // CV //
Education: Undergraduate/ Dual Degree/ 4.38 GPA/ Five scholarships, Special Mention: Gilman Scholarship/ Undergraduate version of Fulbright Scholarship (Berlin) and Art and Technology Scholarship Parsons (five provinces/cities of China)
//BFA// Parsons The New School/ Fine Art/ graduated with double honors/ 2015 //BA// Eugene Lang The New School/ Screen Studies/ 2017 (Experimental program led by McKenzie Wark)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago: //MFA// Graduate Degree/ Low-Residency/ 2022/ Graduate Dean’s Scholarship
Professional:
Pollinator Residency/ Recommended by Foundation for Contemporary Arts/ 2026
Fountain House Gallery/ Small Works/ Paintings/ 2025
Pollinator Residency Pilot Program/ Recommended by Foundation for Contemporary Arts/ 2025
The Wrong Biennale
Metatopia Pavilion/ Digital Feminist Book/ 2024
Wrong Water Pavilion / Video Art/ 2018
Time and Space Writing Residency (NY)/ Hudson Homeschool/ Poetry/ 2019
Tisch Emerge ’19 Residency (NYC)/ Abrons Arts Center/ Performance and Social Justice Residency
My Barbarian New Museum Residency/Performance and Social Justice Residency/2017
Amos Enos Gallery/ Experimental Lecture Poetry/ 2019
Colgate University/ Visiting Artist with Series of Greenscreen and Protest in Poetry Workshops/ 2017
Film Makers’ Coop NYC/ Intern/ 2013
Film Makers’ Coop/ New Year New Works/ Video Art and Performance/ 2018
Film Makers’ Coop NYC/ New Year New Works/ Video Art and Performance/ 2019
Film Makers’ Coop NYC/ New Year New Works/ Video Art and Performance/ 2022
U10 Art Space/ Hybrid Narrative’s/ Group Show/ Three-Chanel Instillation Video Art and Performance/ Curated by Nadežda Kirćanski/ Belgrade/ 2019
Foundation for Contemporary Arts/ Emergency Grant/ Hybrid Narratives Group Show/ Curated by Nadežda Kirćanski/ grant funds administrative guidance by HEKLER Collective/ Belgrade, Serbia/ 2019
Performa ’15/ Art in General Gallery (NYC)/ Protocols/Performance Artist for Artist in Residence Lior Shvil
Production Assistant for Candice Brietze/ Love Story/ Venice Biennale/ 2015
Ongoing Curatorial: Digital Diaspora 2015-current
References:
Tyler Coburn