Artist Bio

Fataneh Rahaghi is an Iranian-born visual artist based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Her interdisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, installation, video, and performance, with a sustained focus on memory, the body, and absence. Working with fragmented anatomical forms informed by medical and radiological imagery, she investigates how the body becomes a site of erasure, trace, and resistance.

Rahaghi has exhibited her work in Iran and Canada, including group exhibitions at the Iranian Academy of Arts, Sheis Gallery, White Line Gallery, Eastern Edge Gallery, Cupids Legacy Centre, and the Art and Culture Centre in St. John's. She has collaborated on public sculpture projects in Tehran and worked professionally as a puppeteer, puppet maker, and art educator for over fifteen years. Her work bridges Iranian compositional traditions with contemporary approaches to displacement, collective memory, and the politics of bodily presence.