Ghazaleh Avarzamani (born in Tehran, Iran; lives and works between Toronto and London) is multidisciplinary artist primarily works with sculpture and installation. Her practice is rooted in game theories and psycho-political mechanisms. Her interactive large-scale sculptures and public art projects - typically utilize references to real-life materials - create spaces that are both inviting and potentially hostile. Avarzamani’s research and fascination extend to unsettling and revealing social hierarchies in language, affective economies, cognitive apparatuses, governing and educational systems, that are often invisibly in place.
Through her practice, she explores the fallacies and inequities embedded in our inherited knowledge and manuals. By re-reading the narratives my work suggests different possibilities for disrupting hegemonic systems of power. She deconstruct and reconstruct narratives, shaping an extraordinary language within the ordinary and finding ways of representing what is usually overlooked.
She holds an MFA from Central Saint Martins, London. She has presented exhibitions at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, MOCA Toronto, Toronto Biennial, Hayward Gallery, Delfina Foundation, Dhaka Art Summit, and her work is held in collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Rockefeller Center, Arsenal Contemporary, MOCA Toronto, TD Art Collection and Red Mansion.
Avarzamani is part of a duo formed in 2025 with Ali Ahadi, called Freudian Typo.
