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Stacy Mehrfar

Working with photography, photobooks, and video, Stacy Arezou Mehrfar explores the emotional and social facets of community. Her works look closely at the tension between belonging and alienation, and how individuals form meaning through their embodied presence in place. 

Mehrfar has exhibited her works at TEDxSydney, Australia; KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; and the International Center of Photography, New York. A 2022 Silver List nominee, Mehrfar has received the Joseph Robert Foundation Grant, a Puffin Foundation Artist Grant, and the Australian Postgraduate Award. Her residencies include Interlude, I-Park Foundation, and the Wassaic Project. She is a 2025 LABA Lab fellow and Studio Arts resident at the Clemente Center. 

Her work has received positive coverage in New Art City, Collector Daily, Ruckus Journal, L’œil de la Photographie, British Journal of Photography, and The New Yorker. Portfolios of her work have appeared in Der Greif, Artist Profile, and Fraction magazines.

Her most recent monograph, The Moon Belongs to Everyone, was published by GOST Books in 2021. Mehrfar holds an MFA in Photomedia from the University of NSW School of Art and Design, Sydney, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Certificate in Creative Practices from ICP, New York. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts and ICP. Stacy is a first-generation Iranian-American artist. 

Arezou, her middle name, means "wish" in Farsi.