Parham Ghalamdar is an Iranian-born artist based in Manchester, working across painting, ceramics, moving image, installation and writing. Drawing on speculative archaeology, philosophy and cybernetics, his practice examines how images and objects are shaped by war, exile, technology and ecological collapse.
His latest solo exhibition, Aerotheology (2026), was presented at Leeds Arts University. His experimental film The Sight Is a Wound (2025) has received multiple awards and screened at over 50 international festivals and exhibitions. His work is held in the UK Government Art Collection and other public collections.
Ghalamdar is a 2026/27 Folger Shakespeare Library Artistic Research Fellow, Factory International Fellow and New Contemporaries selected artist. His forthcoming book Persophobia will be published by Posthuman Press in 2027.
Cut, Action
2022, Echoes of Loss and Celebration: Iranian Home Videos as Beautiful Apparitions
2022, Art Assembly Co-commission: City as Art school, Manchester Art Gallery
2022, "Fayre Share Fayre" group show at Whitworth Gallery
2022, "HALF AWAKE" DUO SHOW, BANKLEY GALLERY + STUDIOS
2022, "A FINE KETTLE OF FISH" COMMISSIONED SOLO EXHIBITION, HOME MCR
2022, "RDPE" animation
2022, "patience of the traitor" album art, released by Other People
2022, CROSSING symposium at Society for the Humanities at Cornell University
Tendencies in Painting
2022, EXH 09 GROUP SHOW, FLOORR
2022, Sixty Drawings + Ten group exhibition at Whitaker Museum
2021 & 2022, "LEERZEIT" RESIDENCY PROGRAMME, PROFORMA X BEGEHUNGEN
Desire Lines international residency program
2022, "Inshallahland" album art, Room 40, Red Hills, Australia.
2021, "PRESENT ABSENCE" TRIO EXHIBITION, ABINGDON STUDIOS AND PROJECT SPACE
2021, "DARK MATTER" GROUP EXHIBITION, WORKPLACE FOUNDATION
Unpausing Piero Della Francesca
LOITERING ON THE GRID
