Sara Mameni

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Sara Mameni (born March 29, 1977) [1] is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley. [2]

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Education

Mameni completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, a Master of Arts from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD in Art History from the University of California, San Diego. [2] [3]

Career

Mameni was an education coordinator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Director of the Aesthetics and Politics MA program at the California Institute for the Arts. [4] Mameni has written for Canadian Art , Fuse Magazine , Filip Review, Signs, Journal of Women and Performance, and more. [5] In June 2011, Mameni curated the exhibition, Snail Fever, at the Third Line Gallery in Dubai. [6] Mameni also has an interdisciplinary art practice that includes sound installation, drawing, and creative and scholarly writing. Mameni's artworks are in permanent collections at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery. [7]

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Writing

Exhibitions

Awards

In 2009, Mameni was awarded the Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize for her account of artist Denise Oleksijczuks’ creation of the film Role. [22] Mameni has received grants from Canada Council for the Arts and the Mary Lily Research Grant. [23] [24] [25]

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  2. 1 2 "Fellowship Program - Sara Mameni". President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. University of California. Archived from the original on 20 March 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  3. ↑ "Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Sara Mameni – Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future". The Humanities Institute. UC Santa Cruz. Fall 2016. Archived from the original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "CalArts Program Faculty page" . Retrieved 2019-09-10.
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  6. ↑ Hundal, Angela Boshoff (27 June 2011). "Sarah Mameni Speaks about her 'viral exhibition'". Gulf News . Archived from the original on 17 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  7. ↑ "2011/2012 Acquisitions". Vancouver Art Gallery. 2012. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  8. ↑ Mameni, Sara (2010). "Adventures in History: Isabelle Pauwels at the Henry Art Gallery". Canadian Art: 130–133.
  9. ↑ Mameni, Sara (2017). "Dermopolitics: Erotics of the Muslim Body in Pain". Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. 27: 96–103. doi:10.1080/0740770X.2017.1282119. S2CID   151757908.
  10. ↑ Mameni, Sara (2013). "Car Flirting and Morality Cruising: Neurotic Gazes and Paranoid Glances in Contemporary Iranian Art" (PDF). Al-Raida (141): 27–38. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 September 2016.
  11. ↑ Manemi, Sara (Fall 2010). "Congo Memories". Canadian Art. 27 (3): 131–33. ProQuest   757736314 – via ProQuest.
  12. ↑ Mameni, Sara (2020). "How Does It Feel to Be an Oil Spill?". Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities. 8 (1): 82–94. doi:10.1353/res.2020.0038. ISSN   2330-8117.
  13. ↑ Mameni, Sara (2007). "Invasion of the Cybernetic Hand and Other Predicaments: Kristin Lucas at Or Gallery". Fillip. 5: 15.
  14. ↑ Mameni, Sara (2015). On Persian Blues : Queer Bodies, Racial Affects (Thesis). UC San Diego.
  15. ↑ Maneni, Sara (Winter 2009). "Congo Memories". Canadian Art. 26 (4): 70–73. ProQuest   757736314 – via ProQuest Central.
  16. ↑ Mameni, Sara (2021-05-27). "Visual studies now. Visions of immunity". Visual Studies. 36 (3): 221–222. doi:10.1080/1472586X.2021.1970349. ISSN   1472-586X.
  17. ↑ Mameni, Sara (June 2018). "What Are the Iranians Wishing For? Queer Transnational Solidarity in Revolutionary Iran". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 43 (4): 955–978. doi:10.1086/696628. ISSN   0097-9740.
  18. ↑ "Again and Again and Again: Serial Formats and Repetitive Actions". Vancouver Art Gallery. 2012. Archived from the original on 26 February 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
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  20. ↑ "Alissa Firth-Eagland and Johan Lundh: Between Us- A Toronto/Vancouver Exchange". YYZ. 4 September 2008. Archived from the original on 27 November 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  21. ↑ "The Poster Project". Artspeak. 2004. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  22. ↑ "There are just two weeks left to apply for the Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize!". Canadian Art . 17 May 2012. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  23. ↑ Collins, Kate (24 April 2014). "Congratulations to our 2014-2015 grant recipients!". The Devil's Tale. Duke University Libraries. Archived from the original on 26 January 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  24. ↑ "Grant and Prize Recipients - Mameni, Sara". Canada Council for the Arts. Archived from the original on 18 May 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  25. ↑ "Mary Lily Research Grants". gradfund.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
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