Anahita norouzi

Anahita Norouzi is a multidisciplinary artist, originally from Tehran and active in Montreal since 2018. Her practice is research-driven, informed by marginalized histories, focusing on themes of resource extraction, colonialism, and the relationship between humans and land.

Articulated across a range of materials and mediums—including video, sculpture, installation, photography—her work challenges institutional authority by reclaiming personal narratives and collective memories embedded in archives, museum collections, and herbarium pages, ultimately dissecting how power operates through systems of classification, representation, and historical erasure.

Norouzi’s work has been shown internationally, including the International Contemporary Art Biennial of South America (Buenos Aires), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. She has received grants and fellowships from the Grantham Foundation, Liz Crockford Artist Fund, the Vermont Studio Center. She is the recipient of the Contemporary Art Award from the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (2023), the Impressions residency at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2022), and a finalist for the Sobey Art Award (2023).