Saruye s

Saruye is an Iranian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist working across painting, installation, performance, and lens-based media. She earned her BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University in 2025. Her work has been presented in exhibitions in Canada, Germany, Italy, and the United States. She has participated in artist residencies in Iran and at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts in Toronto. Having moved from Iran to Canada at sixteen, Saruye’s practice is informed by migration and the experience of existing between cultures. Her current interests consider how identity is shaped and reshaped through language, memory, politics, history, and place. Drawing from Persian visual and historical references alongside lived experience, her work often brings together humour, discomfort, repetition, and contradiction. Her recent recognition includes the Takao Tanabe Education Scholarship, the Ontario-Ukraine Solidarity Cultural Exchange Scholarship, and the From Our Point of View: Encounters with Artists Research and Creation Award. Her practice continues to move between personal and political spaces, with a growing interest in how contemporary events reshape her relationship to Iran, distance, and cultural memory.