Artist Talk with Collaborative Artist in Residence Amir Hariri

Tuesday, Oct. 6 noon, Sarah Silberman Art Gallery, Paul Peck Art Building 2nd Floor, Rockville Campus

For three weeks in October, Collaborative Artist in Residence Amir Hariri will lead students in Provisional Futures: Building As Revision, a project that explores transformation, shelter, memory, displacement, repair, and resilience through architectural thinking, sculptural construction, and material experimentation. Students in sculpture and 3D design classes will collaborate in the creation of a shared, site-responsive installation in the Sarah Silberman Art Gallery.

The artist will begin the residency with a public lecture and Q&A, tracing how transformation has shaped his practice, particularly in projects that explore loss, displacement, and the symbolic residue of built environments. Light refreshments will be served.

Amir Hariri was born in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to the United States to attend college in the early 1990s. After earning a master's degree in engineering from Cornell University, he spent over a decade working on design projects from concert halls and museums to glass designs for Apple. Amir also spent 5 years studying painting and printmaking at the Art Students League, during which time he served as an assistant instructor and as a member of the board. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, with pieces included in public and private collections in the United States, Italy, Spain, Hong Kong, and Japan. In New York, he has exhibited at various venues, including Atamian Hovsepian Curatorial Practice, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Children's Museum of Manhattan, Denise Bibro Fine Art, FIT, the Painting Center, PS 122 and Wave Hill. Amir's work has been written about in publications such as Arte Fuse, Hyperallergic, Pank Magazine, the Woven Tale Press and Whitehot Magazine. Awards include the Museum of Arts and Design, NARS Foundation and Greenwich House Pottery residencies, Smack Mellon 'Hot Picks' and the NYFA Fellowship.