Raha Rastifard b. 1974

Raha Rastifard is an Iranian-German artist who lives and works in Stockholm. Through a wide range of media, such as photography, sculpture, painting, video, and installation, she explores topics of identity and cultural heritage, often through an equally scientific and poetic approach. Her works usually carry references to literature, philospohy, art history, and Persian geometry.

Rastifard holds a BFA from the National University of Art in Tehran as well as an MA in European and Islamic Art from Freie Universität in Berlin. She has also attended a couple of post-master courses at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2015 – 2018). Recent solo and group exhibition venues include Ebelingmuseet, Eskilstuna (2023), Borås Bright Art, Borås Konstmuseum (2023), Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm (2022), Berg Gallery, Stockholm (2021), and Östergötlands museum, Linköping (2019). Additionally, her work has been shown in a large number of exhibitions throughout Europe, Asia and North America, including venues such as the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Museo Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Malmö Konsthall, and Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo.

Rastifard was awarded the 2021 IASPIS residency scholarship, and received the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s two-year working grant the following year. Her works are represented in the collections of Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Borås Konstmuseum, Östergötlands Museum, Stockholm Konst, and Region Stockholm (Stockholm County Council), to name a few.