Sara Issakharian

Bio

Sara Issakharian (born in Tehran in 1983) completed her MFA in painting at the New York Academy of Art in 2015. She was awarded the 2014 inaugural New York Academy of Art Residency in Moscow, Russia, and in 2015 she was part of the first-round award winners of the Art Olympia prize, Japan. Issakharian’s first exhibition at Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles, “There’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there,” opened in 2021. Her work will be included in forthcoming group exhibitions at Site131, Dallas, and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, in 2022. Her first solo exhibition at Tanya Leighton, Berlin, will open in 2023.