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.