Born in 1977 in Berkeley, Babak Golkar spent his formative years in Tehran before moving to Vancouver in 1996. He obtained a BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr Institute in 2003 and an MFA from the University of British Columbia in 2006. Golkar been researching diverse subjects, refining a particular conceptual vocabulary, exhibiting works both locally and internationally. Select exhibitions and presentations include Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver; Aga Khan Museum, Toronto; Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid; Museum Villa Stvck, Munich; Institute for New Connotative Action, Seattle; Sazmanab, Tehran; Sharjah Contemporary Art Museum; Fondation Boghossian – Villa Empain, Brussels and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among others.
