Stacy Arezou Mehrfar is a visual artist working with photography and video. Her practice explores belonging and alienation, the ways people construct meaning through their embodied relationships with place, and photography’s capacity to communicate the unseen.
Mehrfar has exhibited her work at KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; International Center of Photography (ICP), New York; Les Champs Libres, Rennes, France; ANU Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel; and TEDxSydney, Australia. She is a recipient of the Joseph Robert Foundation Grant, a Puffin Foundation Artist Grant, and the Australian Postgraduate Award, and was named to the 2022 Silver List. Her residencies include Interlude Foundation, I-Park Foundation, and the Wassaic Project. She is a 2025 LABA Lab fellow and 2024-2026 Studio Arts resident at the Clemente Center.
Her work has received coverage in 1000 Words, New Art City, Collector Daily, Ruckus Journal, L’œil de la Photographie, British Journal of Photography, and The New Yorker. Portfolios of her photographs have appeared in Der Greif, Artist Profile, and Fraction magazines.
Her second monograph, The Moon Belongs to Everyone, was published by GOST Books in 2021. Mehrfar holds an MFA in Photomedia from the University of NSW School of Art and Design, Sydney, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Certificate in Creative Practices from ICP, New York. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts and ICP.
Stacy is a first-generation Iranian-American artist. Arezou, her middle name, means “wish” in Farsi.
