BIO
Stacy Arezou Mehrfar's photographs, video installations, and photobooks explore the dynamics of belonging and how individuals form meaning through embodied presence in place.
Mehrfar has exhibited her works at TEDxSydney, Australia; KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, New York; Les Champs Libres, Rennes, France; and ANU Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. A 2022 Silver List nominee, Mehrfar has received the Joseph Robert Foundation Grant, a Puffin Foundation Artist Grant, and the Australian Postgraduate Award. Her residencies include Interlude Foundation, I-Park Foundation, and the Wassaic Project. She is a 2025 LABA Lab fellow and Studio Arts resident at the Clemente Center.
Her work has received positive coverage in 1000 Words, New Art City, Collector Daily, Ruckus Journal, L’œil de la Photographie, British Journal of Photography, and The New Yorker. Portfolios of her work have appeared in Der Greif, Artist Profile, and Fraction magazines.
Her second monograph, The Moon Belongs to Everyone, was published by GOST Books in 2021. Mehrfar holds an MFA in Photomedia from the University of NSW School of Art and Design, Sydney, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Certificate in Creative Practices from ICP, New York. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts and ICP. Stacy is a first-generation Iranian-American artist.
Arezou, her middle name, means "wish" in Farsi.
RECENT PRESS
1000 Words (2026)
New Art City (2023)
Ruckus Journal (2023)
Whitewall (2023)
Photoworks UK (2022)
This Week in Photography (2022)
PhotoEye (2022)
Strange Fire Collective (2022)
Collector Daily (2021)
Lœil de la Photographie (2021)
Humble Arts Foundation (2021)
Aesthetica Magazine (2021)
British Journal of Photography (2020)
Musee Magazine, Woman Crush Wednesday (2020)
Clients Include:
Bloomberg Businessweek
New York Times Magazine
New York Times
London Times
Out Magazine
Out Travel
The Walrus