Stacy Mehrfar

BIOGRAPHY

Stacy Arezou Mehrfar is a first-generation Iranian-American artist living and working in New York City. Mehrfar works with the photographic medium to build psychologically charged immersive presentations; using in-camera interventions, exaggerations of scale and perspective, and animating still imagery into stop-motion videos to explore community, specifically the relationships between the individual and the collective and how landscape shapes our ways of being.

Stacy holds an MFA (Research) in Photomedia from the University of NSW School of Art and Design in Sydney, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Certificate in Creative Practices from the International Center of Photography (ICP). Stacy is a 2022 Silver List nominee and has received several grants, including the Joseph Robert Foundation Grant, Puffin Foundation Artist Grant, Australian Postgraduate Award, and Australian Artist Grant. Mehrfar's works have been exhibited nationally and Internationally in venues such as KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, Filter Space, TEDxSydney, Ethan Cohen KuBe, ClampArt, ICP, the Australian Centre of Photography, and the State Library of New South Wales. She has received positive press coverage from New Art City, Collector Daily, Ruckus Journal, L'œil de la Photographie, British Journal of Photography, The New Yorker, and Der Greif, Aint Bad, Artist Profile, Fraction, have published portfolios of her works. Her second photobook monograph, The Moon Belongs to Everyone, published by GOST Books, London (2021), was named photobook of the month for July 2021 by Leica Photographie International and one of Photo Eye's Best Books of 2021. In October 2022, she was an Artist in Residence at Interlude, a three-week residency for parent artists in Livingston, New York. In August 2023, she participated in the I-Park Artist Residency Program. Stacy is faculty at ICP, the School of Visual Arts, and PhotoPhlo and a visiting artist lecturer at CUNY Staten Island in Spring 2024.

Arezou, her middle name, means wish in Farsi.