Visiting Artist Lecture: Marzieh Miri

Marzieh Miri is an Iranian-Canadian multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice explores place, land, and environment through photography and other lens-based media. Her work examines the relationships between people and their surroundings, with a particular interest in memory, displacement, and belonging. Working across photography, video, sound, and alternative photographic processes, she explores how places are experienced, remembered, and transformed.

Marzieh holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University and has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. Her work has been exhibited in Iran, France, Austria, and Canada. With a background in architecture, she has also worked as an educator, writer, and critic. Her writing has appeared in books and international journals, and she has presented her research at conferences in Canada, England, and Iran.

This talk is part of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series, co-presented by the Doris McCarthy Gallery & Studio Art program, Department of Arts, Culture & Media, University of Toronto Scarborough. The theme of this year's series, Stories Held by the Land, invites artists across diverse disciplines and geographies to share insights into their respective practices, approaching the land not as a fixed territory, but as a living site of encounter, responsibility, and transformation. Through their work, they reveal how histories are carried across generations, how communities are sustained through relationships to place, and how more just and resilient futures can emerge from renewed ways of relating to the land.

Free, open to the public. Drop-in, no registration is required for the public (U of T Scarborough students attending for course credit should register here). Pizza lunch will be served.

This program takes place on campus at U of T Scarborough, in Room AA304, located on the third floor of the Arts & Administration Building. For directions to campus, and public transit and parking information and rates, see the DMG’s Visitor Information. For first-time visitors to campus, we recommend consulting the campus map to help with wayfinding and give yourself some extra time.

This is a seated program. The Arts & Administration Building is wheelchair accessible. If you have accommodation needs, please let us know through the registration form or contact dmg.utsc@utoronto.ca.