Sara Mameni

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

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]

Select bibliography

Writing

• "Adventures in History: Isabelle Pauwels at the Henry Art Gallery", Canadian Art, 2010.^[8]
• "Dermopolitics: Erotics of the Muslim Body in Pain", Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 2017.^[9]
• "Car Flirting and Morality Cruising: Neurotic Gazes and Paranoid Glances in Contemporary Iranian Art", AL- Raida, 2013.^[10]
• "Congo memories", Canadian Art, 2010.^[11]
• "How Does It Feel to Be an Oil Spill?", Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, 2020.^[12]
• "Invasion of the Cybernetic Hand and Other Predicaments: Kristen Lucas at Or Gallery", Fillip Review, 2007.^[13]
• "On Persian Blues : Queer Bodies, Racial Affects", eScholarship, University of California, 2015.^[14]
• "Take Two", Canadian Art, 2009.^[15]
• "Visual studies now. Visions of immunity", Visual studies (Abingdon, England), 2021.^[16]
• "What Are the Iranians Wishing For? Queer Transnational Solidarity in Revolutionary Iran", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2018.^[17]

Exhibitions

• Again and Again and Again: Serial Formats and Repetitive Actions, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2012.^[18]
• Everything Should be As Simple As Possible But Not Simpler, Western Front, 2008.^[19]
• Between Us: Toronto/Vancouver Exchange, YYZ Artists' Outlet, 2008.^[20]
• White Noise: Sara Mameni and Isabelle Pauwels, State Gallery, 2005.^[19]
• The Poster Project, Artspeak, 2004.^[21]

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]

References

1. Kajander, Paul (2009). "Raymond Boisjoly, Karina Bergmans, Jennifer Cook, Steven Hubert, Roy Lu, Sara Mameni, Isabelle Pauwels, Minh Nguyen, Stefan Thompson and Ron Tran: Transcontinental Divide". UNIT/PITT Projects. Helen Pitt Gallery. from the original on 20 March 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
2. "Fellowship Program - Sara Mameni". President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. University of California. 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. from the original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
4. "CalArts Program Faculty page". Retrieved 2019-09-10.
5. "Author - Sara Mameni". Canadian Art. from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
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. . 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. (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. . Vancouver Art Gallery. 2012. Archived from the original on 26 February 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
19. Laurence, Robin (8 September 2005). "White Noise". The Georgia Straight. from the original on 7 May 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
20. "Alissa Firth-Eagland and Johan Lundh: Between Us- A Toronto/Vancouver Exchange". YYZ. 4 September 2008. from the original on 27 November 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
21. "The Poster Project". Artspeak. 2004. from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
22. . 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. 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.