Pedram Badari
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, and community-based work. 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 work is an active search for various forms of facilitating/envisioning realities by transforming/repurposing different means/tools/modes of the culture of violence.
Baldari has been featured in national and international art venues and biennials such as the Victoria&Albert Museum London, Documenta 13th Import-Export, Video Nomad Tokyo, Art Basel Switzerland, Walker Art Museum, Asheville Center for Craft, Weisman Museum, Plains Art Museum, South Dakota Museum of Art, Amarillo Museum of Art, Art Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Art, the Soo Visual Arts Center, and numerous institutions and galleries worldwide.
He has received awards and fellowships from institutions such as Delfina Foundation, Jerome Fellowship, and StarDust Foundation. Pedram is named 2021-22 the 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 to residencies internationally, such as Vermont Studio Center 2015-2020, MacDowell Foundation, Yaddo Foundation, 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.
