Parastoo Anoushahpour

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Parastoo Anoushahpour
Born1986
Tehran, Iran
NationalityIranian/Canadian
EducationBA in Design for Performance from University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, London, UK, a diploma from Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK, a MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media & Design from the Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada.
Known forArtist
Website https://www.parastooanoushahpour.com/

Parastoo Anoushahpour is an Iranian-Canadian moving image artist based in Toronto. She works primarily with video, film and installation. [1] [2] Anoushahpour has worked as part of an artist collective since 2013 with Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko. [3] [4]

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Anoushahpour’s artist residencies include the Mohammad and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation in Jordan, Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture in Spain, Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan, ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics in Germany and the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity in Canada. [2]

Select works

The Time That Separate Us (2022)

The Time that Separates Us depicts the story of Lot's wife through the contemporary Jordan River Valley. [5] [6] [7]

Charity (2021)

Created by the artist collective of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko, Charity is an interactive documentary that examines a controversy surrounding public art in Markham, Ontario. Charity uses 360° video and photogrammetry to re-tell the community’s "confrontation with a piece of public art". [4]

The Lighthouse (2014)

In Anoushahpour's piece The Lighthouse, two photographs are reproduced as slides and converted into a three-dimensional installation, using a rotating screen and two slide projectors. The images depict a path to a 12th century lighthouse in Dover, UK. [8]

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A select list of awards and grants that Parastoo Anoushahpour has been the recipient of:

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