Sahar شنه Tarighi

Sahar Tarighi is an interdisciplinary artist from Şîno (Oshnavieh), Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan), currently based in Columbus, OH, in the United States. Working in ceramics, sculpture, installation, video, and social practice, her work is rooted in the lived experiences and collective memory of displaced and marginalized communities, particularly her own Kurdish heritage. Sahar draws from ancestral myths, traditional crafts, and oral histories—especially those passed down by Kurdish women—to explore themes of displacement, resilience, cultural erasure, and embodied resistance. Through material engagement with clay, textiles, yarn and found objects, she creates spaces where personal and collective histories can resurface, where body and land intertwine as living archives.

 

Her research and studio practice investigate the intersections of memory, identity, and the decolonial imaginary, with a focus on Kurdish feminism, alternative epistemologies, and storytelling as forms of resistance to hegemonic structures.

 

Sahar’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions internationally. She has received several awards and fellowships, including Second Place in the 2025 Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum at The Ohio State University and support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for Project M at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. Other honors include the Maxwell Hanrahan Foundation Scholarship, and full scholarships to the Penland School of Craft and the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts through the Windgate and TCN Fellowships.

 

Sahar is currently a Post-MFA Scholar in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University