Zohreh Sadati

Zohreh Sadati is a multidisciplinary artist from Tehran, Iran, currently based in Paris. She works across documentary photography, experimental cinema, painting, and performance.

Her practice centers on human dignity, women’s identity, and the social, political, and cultural structures that shape individual and collective life. Her work engages with themes of love, marginalization, and resistance, with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ and queer communities, as well as the fragile condition of the human being within society.

Sadati develops her projects within her independent platform, Studio Venus, in Paris. Her work does not aim to simply represent reality, but rather to translate lived experience — situated between memory, observation, and imagination.

Her approach is rooted in lived experience and continuous observation, while expanding toward experimental forms. Each medium becomes a distinct language through which she reconstructs fragments of human experience — sometimes intimate, sometimes political and social, and often unresolved.

In her work, narratives remain open and unstable, creating spaces of tension between identity and displacement, visibility and silence, body and environment.

Sadati began her artistic career in 2004, at the age of 15, as a theatre actress and remained professionally active in this field until 2017. She later expanded her practice toward documentary photography and visual arts. This background in theatre and multidisciplinary practice has significantly shaped the visual and narrative language of her work.

Memberships

Education

• Master’s Degree in Arts Plastique (Contemporary Art and Human Sciences – Paris 8 University 2023-2026
• Photojournalism Diploma – Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX), Denmark, 2023–2024 (Selected among 15 international students)
• BA in Dramatic Literature – University of Art, Shiraz, Iran, 2010–2014
• Diploma in Graphic Arts – Sari, Iran, 2007

Awards & Scholarships

• Shortlisted – Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant, UK, 2025 (Project: Annie)
• Selected among 100 photographers – Eddie Adams Workshop, USA, 2026
• Full Scholarship – ECCA Foundation ,Photojournalism Diploma – Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX), Denmark, 2023–2024
• Financial Grant – Paris 8 University (FSDE), France, 2025–2026 (post-production support for films Hot Summer and Far, Near-Far)
• Selected – Canon Student Development Programme Europe, 2023
• Scholarship – International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA), Denmark, 2021

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Founder & Artistic Director – Atelier VENUS, Paris, France

Internship (Stage) – Fondation Cartier Art contemporain, Paris, France 2024

Ambassador – ERUA Alliance, Paris 8 University, France, 2023–2024

Local Board Member – ERUA ( European Reform University Alliance), France, 2024–2025

EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS

• “Everything Was About December and Loneliness”
  Photography Exhibition – Paris 8 University, France, December 2025
• “Hot Summer” (Film Screening)
  Paris 8 University, France, February 2026
• “Silent Hyrcania”
  ERUA Climate Forum Exhibition – Las Palmas, Spain, May 2025
• “Silent Hyrcania” CliMESD International Symposium – Italy, February 2026
• “Bubbles Flying” – DMJX, Denmark, 2023
• “Iranian Portraits” – University of Rennes, France, 2021
• Yangon Photo Festival, Myanmar, 2020
• International Exhibition – Kish, Iran, 2020
• Tassvirsal Annual Exhibition – Tehran, Iran, 2018–2020

Theater & Performance

• “Invitation” by Gholamhossein Saedi
• “Good Night Sir Count” by Akbar Radi
• “1001 Nights” by Bahram Beizaei
• “Point Line Thee” by Veronic Olmi
• “Basement” by Arash Abbasi
• “Panda Bears” by Matei Visniec
• Performance Project: “In Cost of Dollar“
• Performance Project: “September, Ending Days“

Video Art & Performance Art

• 2020 “The Atlantic Is Between Us” – Video performance art 
• 2019 “The Precipice for the Mistress Lulla” – Video performance art – 2019
• 2016 “Birds” – Video documentary art about bombing in Taksim Square, Istanbul 
• 2017 “I Am A Land” – Video art at Shiraz Sarvenaz Gallery 
• 2020 “Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and His Daughter Valeri” – Performance art about migrant tragedy 
• 2019 “Vinnie in War” – Performance art 

Poetry Collection

• 2026 Hotel Tulip, After What Happened
• 2020 “Inevitable Everything in 1969”
• 2020 “The Atlantic Is Between Us”
• 2019 “The Precipice for the Mistress Lulla”
• 2018 “Vinnie in War”
• 2017 “I Am A Land”
• 2014- “A River in Mexico”