Mixed Media Sketchbook: A Process-Led Practice with Mahsa
Mahsa Farzi (b. 1992, Tehran, Iran) works across painting, drawing, and sculpture to explore how censorship, migration, and patriarchy disrupt personal and collective continuity. Her practice develops a visual language of fracture and absurdity, where humour becomes inseparable from survival and grief coexists with resilience. Through materially driven processes, she examines these tensions as lived and embodied conditions. Farzi’s work has been exhibited at This Gallery, Vancouver (2025); the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2025); Palefire Projects, Vancouver (2025); and A+ Gallery, Beirut (2018). She is the recipient of several awards, including the CICA Vancouver Emerging & Mid-Career International Art Award (Rising Star – 2025) and the Joan Wright Hassell Prize in Visual Arts (2024). She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia (2025).