Tannaz Saatchi holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her work examines memory, nostalgia, and the body through a cross-cultural, feminist lens. Working both within and beyond the studio, she uses objects and staged tableaux to explore her relationship with others and herself. Saatchi’s practice reveals the emotional resonance embedded in everyday objects and spaces.
As a second-generation Iranian-Canadian artist, her cultural identity is shaped through inherited traditions, language, and objects rather than firsthand experience. Her work bridges the absence and presence of Iran in her life, inviting reflection on the layered, shifting nature of cultural identity and the fragility of memory.
Saatchi’s work has been exhibited in Piggybacks through the Living Room, Onto Tomorrow, Ghost Images, and Why Photography, and published in SeaBuzz Magazine, The Unfiltered, and Woo Publication. She has received the Evangelos “Angie” Apostolides Scholarship, the Andrew Oksakovsky and Dr. Emily Goetz Memorial Scholarship, and the Marion V. Murray Memorial Scholarship. Saatchi currently lives and works in Vancouver, BC.
