Mina Talaee is a visual artist, sculptor and art researcher based in Tehran, Iran. She holds a PhD in Art Research from Alzahra University. Inspired by her mother’s sculptures, she began since young age under Amineh Kazemzadeh, and has been continuing her work under Master Parviz Tanavoli for the past 6 years.
Her skills cover an extensive range of techniques and materials required in the field of sculpture, among which are: wood carving and wood turning, modeling, molding, polishing cast-metal works, fiber art and traditional techniques such as kilim and carpet weaving, fiberglass and casting resins.
Her artworks which mainly explore and challenge contemporary cultural & social conventions, power relations, cultural hegemony, and global issues such as displacement and migration crisis, were included in more than 30 exhibitions in Iran, France, Ireland, USA, Croatia and Germany since 2003.
She has won several national & international awards, namely the Youth Art: Forth Visual Art Festival. She is currently a member of Institute for Promotion of Visual Arts, field of sculpture.
She has lectured at a number of universities from 2009 to 2014, namely Soore University at which she also headed the BA/MA programs at the Handicrafts department. Her researches, which are mainly focused on Iranian post-revolutionary figurative sculpture, are published in scholarly journals such as Negareh Quarterly Journal of Visual Arts, for which she has also been a reviewer and English editor, and presented on occasions such as the ‘Modern Iranian Art and Architecture in the Shadow of the Classical Persian Past’ conference at University of Manchester; ‘Art, Materiality and Representation’ conference at SOAS University of London; and the 3rd Annual CMENAS Graduate Student Symposium ‘Enriching Perspectives on the Middle East and North Africa’ at the University of Michigan.
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