Pedram Baldari
Born and raised in the city of Sine (Sanandaj), Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan), Pedram Baldari is an Interdisciplinary Artist, Architect, and Scholar working in social practice, installation, sound, video, performance, sculpture, public art, curatorial, community-based work, and writing. His research explores the themes of land and belonging, artistic and knowledge production through the indigenous and stateless lens, in a statist socio-political and cultural construct, modes of colonialism, displacement-immigration, and conflict. His current research and artistic inquiry continue to question how diasporic and stateless bodies reimagine place, memory, and futurity through shared acts of making and practices. He stitches together metaphors, myths, and materials—across languages, mediums, and terrains—to articulate an art practice rooted in rupture, survival, and reassembly.
Baldari has been featured in national and international art venues and biennials such as the Victoria&Albert Museum London, UK, Documenta 13th Import-Export, Kassel Germany, Video Nomad Tokyo, Japan, Art Basel Switzerland, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, Asheville Center for Craft, Asheville, NC, Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, MN, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, South Dakota Museum of Art, Brookings, SD, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX, Art Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, the Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, Modulus Biennale at Music on Main, Vancouver, BC, Canada, and numerous institutions and galleries worldwide.
He has received awards and fellowships from institutions such as the Delfina Foundation, the Jerome Fellowship, the Weisman Museum, and the StarDust Foundation. Pedram is named the 2021-22 National Endowment for the Arts Awardee by the MacDowell Foundation. Baldari is the 2022-2023 Luksic Scholars Joint Research Awardee. He received the 2023 Berlin BBA International Artist Prize and is the recipient of the 2024-2025 The Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration award, Office of the Vice President of Research and the Arts Initiative. Baldari is the 2025 Stamps School of Art and Design’s Rogers Edge Awardee for Interdisciplinary Creative Research.
Pedram has been accepted into residencies internationally, including Vermont Studio Center, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Franconia Sculpture Park, Jentel Foundation, Sculpture Space, VCCA, Good Hart Foundation, Kunstferien Letchebach, and Delfina Foundation.
Pedram has worked as an assistant professor in studio art at the University of Minnesota and the University of North Texas. He is currently based in the Detriot Metro Area and is an Assistant Professor of Art and Design at Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
