(1964 - )
Soheila Sokhanvari (born 1995, Shiraz, Iran), a studio artist at Wysing Arts Centre since 2013, received her BA in Art History and Fine Arts from Anglia Ruskin University in 2005, a postgraduate diploma in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design and an MFA from Goldsmiths in 2011. She was the Derek Hill Foundation Scholar at the British School at Rome in 2018 and has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East. Recent solo exhibitions include Rebel, Rebel, The Curve, Barbican Centre, 2022/23; Addicted to Love, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, 2019; and LDWN, an installation at Victoria Station, London, a collaboration between the Tate Collective and City Hall, 2018. She had a solo show at Heong Gallery, Downing College, Cambridge University, in 2024. Her work is in international private and public collections, including LACMA, USA; National Gallery of Victoria, Australia; The New Art Gallery Walsall; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Murray Edwards College, Cambridge; and Pallant House Gallery.
