Sahar Tarighi
Sahar Tarighi is a Kurdish interdisciplinary artist based in Columbus, Ohio. Working across ceramics, sculpture, installation, video, curatorial, and social practice, her work examines histories of displacement and ethnic and cultural violence through the body and land as sites of memory, survival, and healing. Her practice conceives body and land as living archives in which memory, labor, trauma, and care are embodied, preserved, and transmitted across generations. Drawing from ancestral myths, oral histories, and collective memory, particularly those carried by Kurdish women, Sahar approaches art making as a material and embodied form of knowledge and as a means of resisting cultural erasure and dominant structures of power.
Her work has been featured in national and international exhibitions across the United States, South Korea, Chile, Canada, and the United Kingdom, including the Berman Museum, NCECA, the Delaware Contemporary, the Materials Hard and Soft International Craft Competition, Workhouse Clay International, the Guilford Art Center Ceramics Biennial, and the CICA Museum.
She has received several awards and fellowships, including Second Place in the 2025 Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum at The Ohio State University. She was selected for Project M at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, a program supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional 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 Tarighi is currently a Post MFA Scholar in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.
