SHARZADIAN is purveyor of artisanal mirrors and mirror installations. Her work is rooted in poetics of light.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
Point ZeroPoint Zero is an immersive mirror installation by Sharzadian, created for Boil Festival at Serralves in Porto. Three triangular monoliths, each 230 centimetres tall, stand in a triangular formation, their surfaces covered entirely in mirror.
Each monolith acts as a being of its own, reflecting visitors back at themselves. Standing among them, one meets a moment of clean slate, a point of becoming nobody. It is an initiation point from which one can go up or down, melt or freeze.
Rooted in the Persian craft of ainekari, the work turns mirror into architecture of light, and asks each visitor to make a decision at the mirror.
Heart of FireSharzadian's Heart of Fire collection is a series of wearable mirrors, shaped in mirror and mixed media and made to be worn over the heart as brooches, chokers, or belts.
The collection is rooted in the mysticism of Iran, where the heart is a fire and only what burns can give light. In the same tradition, a person begins as a stone with sharp edges. Life's journey polishes it, and if one allows love to do the polishing, the stone becomes a mirror, smooth and open, able to carry light. The image of a burning heart also lives in Christianity, and each piece holds that meeting point, where different faiths arrive at the same truth: love is the fire, and life moves within it.
To wear a Heart of Fire is to carry that light on the body.Each Heart is a collectible unique creation.
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.
"The Birth"
Mirror on wood
75 cm x 95 cm
🟢Available
"Light Runs with the wind"
Mirror on wood
60 cm x 60 cm
🔴Collected
"The Body of Flow"
Mirror and painting on wood
120 cm x 95 cm
🟢 Available
"The Waterfall"
Mirror on wood
90 cm x 90 cm
🔴Collected
"The Mirage"
Mirror on wood
200 cm x 120 cm
🔴Collected
Box of light: Zan (Woman)
Mirror on wood with painting behind glass
32 cm x 32 cm
Available 🟢
🔴Collected
Box of light: Tetris tray
Mirror on wood mixed with Murano glass
32 cm x 32 cm
Available 🟢
Roshan
75cm x 80cm
Mirror on wood
🔴Collected
Roshan: Miyan
55cm x 30cm
Mirror on wood
🔴Collected
Roshan: Piche
100 cm x 45 cm
Mirror on wood
🔴Collected
Roshan: Pol
90 cm x 5 cm
Mirror on wood
🔴Collected
Roshan: Gozar
100 cm x 50 cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🟢 on exhibition at Cedrus Curated
Roshan: Goushre
50 cm x 50 cm
Mirror on wood
🔴Collected
Segoosh
50 cm x 50 cm x 50cm
Mirror on wood
🔴Collected
Acrylic, mixed media and mirrror on plexiglass
🔴Collected
"The Second Valley"
Acrylic & pastel oil and mirror on canvas
Available 🟢
Untitled
Acrylic, mirror & engraving on plexiglass
Available 🟢
The dancing dervish
Acrylic, pastel oil canvas
Mixed with a sculpture of a mirrored prism fixed on canvas
Available 🟢
The Heart of One
Acrylic, pastel oil and mirror canvas
Available 🟢
Acrylic, mixed media and mirrror on wood
🔴Collected
بیانیه هنرمند
شهرزادیان«سایه، بازتاب است.»آثار شهرزادیان در گفتوگویی شاعرانه و عمیق میان سایه و نور شکل میگیرند؛ جستوجویی در مرزهای آنچه دیده میشود و آنچه پنهان میماند. او در پیوندی میان نقاشی، مجسمه و اینستالیشن، تکنیکهای سنتی آینهکاری را با زبان معاصر روایت درمیآمیزد.در نقاشیهایش، شهرزادیان به قدرت مفهومی و روایی سایه میپردازد؛ سایه برای او صرفاً غیاب نیست بلکه راوی حقیقتهای پنهان است. وقتی این مفاهیم بر فرمهای مجسمهوار سوار میشوند، بازتابها تغییر میکنند، با حضور مخاطب در هم میآمیزند و مرز میان اثر و تماشاگر را از میان برمیدارند.مخاطب در آثار او صرفاً بیننده نیست، بلکه بخشی از اثر میشود؛ با هر حرکت، زاویه دید دگرگون میشود، سایهها گسترده میشوند و بازتابها با نور، فضا و حضور مخاطب تغییر میکنند. در این جابهجاییهاست که پرسشی بنیادی پیش روی ما قرار میگیرد: حقیقت کدام است؟ سایه، بازتاب یا تصویری که از خود میشناسیم؟شهرزادیان با الهام از اسطورهها و تلفیق آن با تجربه زیسته امروز، آینهکاری ایرانی را به بیانیهای زنده و شخصی تبدیل میکند؛ آینه نه صرفاً برای بازتاب چهره بلکه برای مکاشفه در لایههای درونی و داستانهای فراموششده. هر اثر، قصهای است از انعکاسهایی که میان سایه و نور، خودآگاهی میآفرینند.آثار او ما را به بازنگری در آنچه واقعیت میپنداریم دعوت میکنند؛ سفری میان لایههای ناپیدای ادراک، جایی که اسطوره، حافظه و اکنون در بازی بیپایان سایهها و نور با یکدیگر تلاقی میکنند.
Artist Statement
“Shadow is reflection.”In Shadow is Reflection, Sharzadian orchestrates a compelling visual meditation on the layered nature of reality. Through sculptural compositions of mirror mosaics—rooted in the traditional craft of Iranian ayeneh-kari yet reimagined within a contemporary aesthetic—she invites us into a conversation between light and its absence, between what is seen and what is sensed.Suspended on sheets of transparent acrylic, each form is incomplete in isolation. It is only when illuminated that the work activates its full presence: casting a shadow, reflecting its surroundings, and fragmenting reality into kaleidoscopic refractions. What emerges is a choreography of perception—three iterations of the same truth rendered simultaneously in form, reflection, and shadow.The mirror, often perceived as a symbol of clarity, here becomes a site of distortion. It reflects not the object itself, but what stands before it—shifting, multiplying, abstracting. The shadow, conversely, offers coherence through silhouette: a unified shape defined by absence. And the sculptural form, hovering in between, acts as the axis through which both forces unfold.Sharzadian’s work resists binary thinking. Light and shadow are not opposites; reflection is not merely imitation. In this series, truth is plural. Each facet—mirror, void, contour—holds its own validity. They do not contradict one another, but rather co-exist, layered and interdependent.Shadow is Reflection is not just an aesthetic gesture—it is a philosophical one. It reclaims fragmentation as honesty, distortion as clarity, and absence as presence. In a world increasingly shaped by singular narratives, Sharzadian offers a quiet but radical invitation:
to see from multiple angles, to hold paradox, and to understand that reality is a mosaic—always shifting, always true.
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