Farniyaz Zaker is an Iranian-born artist and researcher who lives and works in Oxford, UK. Her works have been internationally exhibited since 2002. Located between architectural theory and gender studies, her art practice and writing largely deal with the nexus of body, society, and place. Zaker works across a range of media, including textiles, sculpture/installation, drawing, print, video and sound. Much of her practice explores how bodily practices and spatial awareness define our sense of identity, belonging, and the very concept of knowledge. Her work is both generative and corrosive of boundaries, such as the one between architecture and clothing. It often employs transparency and opacity, repetition and memorisation, text and textiles, and plays with notions of the public and the private, the physical and the psychological. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards. In 2011, she was awarded the Lamb and Flag scholarship from St John's College of the University of Oxford, which enabled her to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Art. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, having been included in exhibitions in the Sharjah Art Museum–UAE, The Ashmolean Museum–UK, Winchester Gallery–UK, Pi Artworks Gallery–Turkey & UK, Laing Art Gallery–UK, Mark Rothko Museum–Latvia, Etemad Gallery– UAE, Contemporary Istanbul International Biennale–Turkey, Müze Evliyagil–Turkey, ID an exhibition held in a fringe exhibition during the Venice Biennale 2019, O Gallery Tehran–Iran and Barvinskyi Gallery Vienna–Austria. ONE & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS • Between Ornament and Structure — Barvinskyi Gallery, Vienna, 2024 • Fault Lines — O Gallery, Tehran, 2024 • Enclaves — The Kendrew Barn Gallery, Oxford, 2023 • Cut from the Same Cloth (Yekparche) — O Gallery, Tehran, 2020 • Letters in Space — NCCA / ROSIZO, St Petersburg, 2017 • Something There Was That Must Have Loved a Wall — Pi Artworks Gallery, Istanbul, 2016 • Primaeval Relationship — The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, 2014 • Puppets — Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, 2014 SELECTED INTERNATIONAL / INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS • Intersection of Temporalities — Barvinskyi Gallery, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, 2026 • The London Group Open — London, 2025 • Pangea — Barvinskyi Gallery, Vienna, 2025 • LICHTFEST Krems — Krems, Austria, 2024 • Paper Positions Art Fair — O Gallery, Berlin, 2024 • Artissima Art Fair — O Gallery, Turin, 2021 • ID — Ca’ Foscari Zattere, Venice, 2019 • BEN HER ZAMAN ÖTEKİ’NİN ALANINDAYIM – The I is Always in the Field of the Other — Müze Evliyagil, Ankara, 2019 • Fortress Man — Mark Rothko Museum and Art Centre, Daugavpils, 2015–2016 • Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair — Pi Artworks, Istanbul, 2015 • 8° International Arte Laguna Prize — Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, 2014 • In site — The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2012 • International Print Biennale — Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 2011 AWARDS / RECOGNITION • Winner of the Hit Parade Art Prize — Paratissima 12, Turin, 2016 • Finalist — Arte Laguna Prize, Installation and Sculpture Section, Venice, 2014 • Winner of the Birgit Skiöld Memorial Trust Prize — International Print Biennale, Newcastle, 2011 • The Lamb and Flag Scholarship — St John’s College, University of Oxford, 2011–2013 • Finalist at WEYA – UK Young Artists — Nottingham, 2012 • Special Grant — St John’s College, University of Oxford, 2014 • Award covering travel and production costs — Sharjah Museum of Contemporary Art, Sharjah, 2014 • Award covering production costs — Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2013 • Finalist — Shafaghi Tabriz Art and Design Competition, Tehran, 2006 • Finalist — Kaveh Golestan Photojournalism Competition, Tehran, 2003 • Winner of First Prize in Photography — First Festival of Art for Art Students, Tehran University of Art, Tehran, 2002