I am a visual artist working across various media – sculptures, painted canvases, video art, written pieces, and installations. Born and raised in Tehran, I began my artistic endeavors by studying graphic design in high school, where I developed my skills in drawing, coloring, and various art-making techniques. Later, I pursued my bachelor’s degree in Studio Art at the American University in Dubai and my Master of Fine Arts degree in Arts and Media at New York University in Abu Dhabi, where I was awarded a scholarship and graduated magna cum laude. My work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and art shows internationally, in cities such as Tehran, Isfahan, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Paris, Monaco, and Los Angeles.
My art often comes from a place of observation, taking inspiration from the simple and ordinary aspects of everyday life. By selecting subjects from these observations, I recreate, relocate, and transform them into new themes. I intensify the subjects, making them imaginary or rephrase them by misplacing them, playing with their scale, color and material. Through this, I aim to bring the complexity of the world we live in into view, and to invite viewers to see things from an unusual perspective, so that they can reconnect their attention to everyday life.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• Daybirth, solo exhibition, Bayt AlMamzar, Dubai, UAE
• Countless Circles, solo exhibition, Corridor Gallery at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
• Count-less, solo exhibition, Shirin Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• After a Long Night, solo exhibition, Saless Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• My Nostalgic Taste of Childhood, solo exhibition (in conjunction with a multimedia performance of Adams-khani
  by Mohamad Rahmanian), Ariana Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Selected Group Exhibitions

• SEEN/SCENE: The Fragile Birth of Fire”, group exhibition, Rizq Art Initiative, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Fusion, group exhibition, Shirin Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• On a Timeline, group exhibition, 421 Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Flux, group exhibition, Project Space, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Once Upon a Time, group exhibition, Foundry Gallery Dubai, Dubai, UAE
• From Tehran with Love, group exhibition, Conducted by Sotheby’s During Frieze LA, Los Angeles, USA
• Les Traversées du Marais, group exhibition, Marais Culture, Paris, France
• Trends and Approaches in Contemporary Art 2nd edition, group exhibition, Mellat Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• Magic in Monaco, group exhibition, MOP (Magic of Persia) in collaboration with Christie’s at Kamil Interior Art Gallery, Monte Carlo, France
• Bayan Aval, group exhibition, Bayan Gallery, Isfahan, Iran
• One Million, group exhibition, Saless Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• Void/Valid, group exhibition, FN Designs Gallery, Dubai, UAE
• Perfect Dystopia, group exhibition, FN Designs Gallery, Dubai, UAE
• Youth Reflection, group exhibition, Rira Gallery, Dubai, UAE
• Sheikha Manal Shortlisted Competition, group exhibition, Dubai Ladies Club, Dubai, UAE

 Honors, recognitions, and residencies

• ‘Cite des art’ residency, Summer 2025, Paris, France
• Artist Residency Fellow at 421 Art Campus, Fall 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Awarded Tuition Fees & Scholarship at New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
• ‘Cite des art’ residency, Summer 2021, Paris, France
• ‘Cite des art’ residency, Fall 2019, Paris, France
• Shortlisted (Last 50) for the Sheikha Manal Young Artist Award, Dubai, UAE

There was cold, solitude, and winter.
It was dark; no light entered through.
There was just nothing, before everything.
Then it came: colors of the spring, with a dash of vanilla scent.
In jet black, I saw nothing but white;
In the heat of summer, I craved the icy snow.
When it snowed, I missed the rays of the sun.
Then, I fell in love with the mountains, on top of which I could watch the sea.
But, like the sea when it was stormy, except when it reached the shores of the forest.
When, again, the blue is the blue of the calm ocean in the morning; I find myself longing.
Then, there comes the wind, carrying rain within, and the poplar trees dance to the song of crickets.
When the cold jolts me awake at dusk once more, I ask myself: How is it that sunrise and sunset feel so much the same?

The light, on the wall, the light that is yellow, wall that is white, the grass that is green, stem of the flower, the petals of the flower, white of the flower, the green of the flower, feel of the flower, the contrast between the green and white, the light of the lamp, feel of more white under the lamp, the texture of the sculpture, edges of the shape, the difference between softness and sharpness, reflection of the shape on the

floor, the endless possibilities of seeing, pattern creating many perceptions, the performance of creating, material in the hand, the intention of making, line should go up, the measurement went wrong, urge to improvise, the line should go right, plan was forgotten, the joy of discovering new solution, the redirection of making, accepting the unplanned, the need to make the shape in one continuous take, brush in the hand, the color on the brush, color on the sculpture, the white on the shape, shape coming to life, the life coming to shape, joy of creation, the existence in the story; universe.

Turning to 3D Art, Farah Soltani’s first series of sculpture “Forms of Sensations”
,consist of eight oversized pieces of sculptures. Each Art work is approximately two meters tall and 100 kilograms in weight. Each piece represents an element – such as water, wind, sound, fire, love and so on – that can be found in almost every being in nature.
As Soltani, “Anything I see, I take it in my head and heart while perceiving it as an individual being. This observation gives me a certain understanding and emotion of that specific thing, which is only seen through the filters given to me by the environment. Therefore, when I see or even hear a word, for instant “river”, I feel its cool breeze on my skin, I remember the word water, when it floats and moves, how it sounds, I think of nature, creation, life and how we human being have ended up here and now.
In this series, my aim was to somehow craft these sensations and reflect those mental states in movements of these solid measuring tapes in my sculpture pieces. At the end, it is my way of a continuous self-study about how my perceptions are valued and identified. “

Apart from painting; Farah Soltani started the idea of taking her painting’s subjects out of two-dimensional frames and once again create them in three-dimensional pieces.
As Soltani explains, “The idea came in my mind after my painting series “My Nostalgic Taste of Childhood” but it took me some time until I made my first statue in 2017. Later, I was determined that is high time to take everyday objects which I paint and find in corner of houses and free them in actual corners of homes and public spaces with a new meaning /approach.”
Soltani’s first statues are made of metal and fibre glass that is as high as 90 Centimeter. These pieces are replication of her painting series “Count-less” with almost same colors and minor changes in positioning on a flat base.