SHARZADIAN is a visual artist and purveyor of artisanal mirrors and mirror installations. Her work is rooted in Iranian Poetry and mythology inspired by the architectural craft of Aine-kari.Previous Exhibitions:• "Point Zero" Mirror Installation, BOIL Festival at Fundação de Serralves Contemporary Art Museum — September 2026
• Solo Exhibition "Constellation of Stars" at Inspira Liberdade Boutique Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal — 2026
• "Here & Now" collective exhibition, Lisbon Design Week — 2026
• Curated for TEDx Marvila Art Auction — 2026
• Nominated for The Sovereign Art Award — 2026
• Collective Exhibition "WeMind" at SAFRA — May 2026
• Solo Exhibition "ROSHAN" at SAFRA — December 2025
• "Corte" exhibition by The CodMarket Gallery, Lisbon — November 2025
• Cedrus reCurated exhibition — November 2025
• Artist Residency in La Tempera, Burgundy, France — August 2025
• Cedrus curated exhibition at Lisbon Art & Design Week — June 2025
• Multiple ainekari workshops and talks at Soho House, Spain & Portugal
• Lisbon Design Week — June 2024
• "Chamber of Curiosity" commissioned installation, permanently exhibited in Tangier — May 2024
• Lisbon private exhibition "Explosion of Expression" — June 2023
Artist Statement
Sharzadian weaves with mirrors, rooted in Persian poetry. Her multidisciplinary practice spans mirror installations, sculptural pieces, mixed media painting, and live performance — each form a different entry point into the same abiding inquiry: what stories are we carrying, and what would shift if we saw them from another angle.The mirror is her language that moves through every form she inhabits. In her mixed media paintings, mirror fragments appear as both material and motif, fracturing the portrait into layered truths rather than a single image. In her installations and sculptures, she deploys mirrors as architectural instruments: curating angles, abstracting space, suspending the viewer in a moment of disorientation that opens, quietly, into awe. In performance, she brings them as charged objects — small, deliberate, weighted with meaning — recurring symbols in a live grammar that unfolds in real time.
Her monthly performances are their own form: a live collision of monologue, painting, and improvised score, created alongside musicians and performance artists in a durational act she describes as a jazz between disciplines. She opens with her own voice — her own lineage — and moves toward something communal. Increasingly, that communal space holds the stories of others: the unrecorded, the unheadlined, the human.
Raised in Iran, where poetry is vernacular and ancient myth is present tense, she brings to her practice an understanding that the stories we carry are older and more necessary than the ones we are currently being told. Her work is an act of restoration — and of resistance.
ContactSchedule a visit to the Atelier in Lisbon to explore the works in personOpen to international projectsEmail sharzadian at gmail dot com
WORKSHOPS
| - Wearable Mirror Art Workshop
January 15In this workshop, Sharzadian will guide you in creating a wearable mirror art on a tie.
• Max size: 5 × 10 cm
• Duration: 3 hours
• Price: €75
• Participants: Limited to 10
Reservation via MBWay or Revolut secures your place.
|| - Decorative Mirror Art Workshop
By appointment only
This workshop focuses on creating a mirror artwork for the home. Sharzadian will guide you through designing and constructing a piece that can be displayed on the wall or a table.
• Size: up to 25 × 20 cm
• Duration: 3 hours total
• Participants: Limited to 5
• Reservation via MBway or revolut: €120
Mirrorwork Workshop — Lisbon StudioA Workshop on Persian mirror art by Sharzadian
In Persian architecture, āine-kāri (mirror work) converted palaces into poetry through millions of geometric fragments of reflection.
From the Venetian monopoly to the war and peace rooms of the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles, from royal salons to whispered treaties that ended empires—mirrors have seen it all.Sharzadian is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist whose narrative-driven practice is shaped by her lived experience across California, Paris, Lisbon, and Tehran. Working primarily with reflective surfaces, she constructs poetic dialogues between shadow, form, and reflection—each offering a distinct yet interwoven fragment of truth.Her sculptural work draws on Ainekari, the intricate mirrorwork tradition found in ancient Persian architecture, reinterpreting it through a contemporary lens. By layering light, absence, and perspective, Sharzadian invites viewers into a space where reality is never singular, but refracted—seen differently depending on where one stands.
Sharzadian works between the ancient and the immediate — weaving Persian poetic tradition into the texture of contemporary experience.Central to her work is the mirror , her threading language and enduring signature. Across every medium it functions simultaneously as surface, symbol, and instrument: fracturing portraiture in mixed media works, reshaping spatial perception in large-scale installations and sculptures, and appearing as intimate object and recurring motif within her live performances. The mirror, in Sharzadian’s hands, is an invitation to see from an angle one did not know was possible.Her live performance bring her disciplines into a single durational form: a personal monologue that opens into live painting, improvised in real time alongside musicians and performance artists, the room itself becoming part of the score. This format has evolved to embrace the stories of others quiet, lived narratives offered in contrast to the flattening pace of contemporary culture.Sharzadian’s work has been presented internationally with a permanent installation piece in Tangier, performances on stage, and site-specific contexts. Her practice is grounded in the belief that authentic story — ancient in its roots, alive in its telling — is among the most necessary things an artist can offer.
Paintings
"The Big Bang"
Mirror on wood
75 cm x 95 cm
Available 🪩 €2100
"Light Runs with the wind"
Mirror on wood
60 cm x 60 cm
SOLD
"The Body of Flow"
Mirror and painting on wood
120 cm x 95 cm
Available 🪩 €1800
"The Waterfall"
Mirror on wood
90 cm x 90 cm
Sold
"The Mirage"
Mirror on wood
200 cm x 120 cm
Sold
Box of light: Zan (Woman)
Mirror on wood with painting behind glass
32 cm x 32 cm
Available 🪩 €900
Box of light: Tetris tray
Mirror on wood mixed with Murano glass
32 cm x 32 cm
Available 🪩 €900
Roshan: Dor-gard
75cm x 80cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €450
Roshan: Miyan
55cm x 30cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €400
Roshan: Piche
100 cm x 45 cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €850
Roshan: Pol
90 cm x 5 cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €450
Roshan: Gozar
100 cm x 50 cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €480
Roshan: Goushre
50 cm x 50 cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €400
Segoosh
50 cm x 50 cm x 50cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €400
Vazneh
32 cm x 5 cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €600
Dast
25 cm x 25 cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €1100
Series V: 2025-2026These series incorporate mirror elements or are accompanied by mirror sculpture as an integral narrative component.
"Sodagar"
Acrylic, mixed media and mirrror on plexiglass
€1200 Available at the studio
"The Second Valley"
Acrylic & pastel oil and mirror on canvas
At CedrusCurated Exhibition 2025
€950
Untitled
Acrylic, mirror & engraving on plexiglass
€950Two sides of the plexiglass behold different narratives with one unique statement of the shadow of the work*corresponding painting on paper available
The dancing dervish
Acrylic, pastel oil canvas
Mixed with a sculpture of a mirrored prism fixed on canvas
€1200Janane
Sculpture, Mirror on wood
35 cm x 6 cm
€850
The Heart of One
Acrylic, pastel oil and mirror canvas
€1100