As a multidisciplinary artist fascinated by everyday objects and the absurdity of contemporary life, Sara Rahmanian makes imaginative paintings that explore the gaps between reality and perception. She paints on coffee filters or canvas, drawing from a first-person perspective that defamiliarizes the mundane by inviting a heightened sense of contemplation about our surroundings. In a sense, she plays hide and seek with familiar objects via her painting process, but more often than not, the process surprises her.

Sara Rahmanian was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1993 and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She earned her BFA in Painting from the University of Art Tehran, Iran, in 2016 and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University, New Haven, CT, in 2021.

Rahmanian has mounted recent solo exhibitions at 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (2022), Acro_sss Project, Milan, Italy (2021), and Delgosha Gallery, Tehran, Iran (2017). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium (2022); Harkawik Gallery, New York (2022); Stable, S-Chanf, Switzerland (2021); and Lyles & King Gallery, New York, NY (2021).

She won the Clifford Ross Scholarship Award and Critical Practice Grants from Yale School of Art and has seen her work featured in The Art Gorgeous Magazine, ArtEast, and Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine.