Babak Golkar

Babak Golkar (B. 1977, Berkeley) lives and works in Vancouver (BC). Grounded in deconstruction, replication and transformation, Golkar’s signature working process is manifested in an array of media and object forms. Golkar’s research emerges from his interest in the relationship between space and human conditions in the contemporary world, and aims to both examine and upend established ways of looking. By distorting assumed certainties of perspective, Golkar questions accepted cultural and socio-economic systems and ideological viewpoints—as well as their persistence over time.

Babak Golkar holds a BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr Institute (2003) and an MFA from the University of British Columbia (2006). In 2022 Golkar was named the first international Jameel Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, U.K., where he has been conducting research on the museum’s collection. Golkar’s has exhibited and presented works in national and international institutions, including: Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver); Polygon Gallery (North Vancouver); West Vancouver Museum (West Vancouver) Aga Khan Museum (Toronto); Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MAC); Sabrina Amrani Gallery (Madrid); Museum Villa Stvck (Munich); Framer Framed (Amsterdam); Sazmanab (Tehran); Sharjah Contemporary Art Museum (Sharjah); Fondation Boghossian - Villa Empain (Brussels); Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London).

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