Mitra Soltani (b. 1988, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist, painter, and researcher whose practiceexplores landscape as a living archive of memory, human experience, and cultural narratives.Working across painting, installation, performance, and site-specific practices, she creates immersive environments where nature, material, and collective histories intersect.Soltani holds a Bachelor’s degree in Painting and a Master’s degree in Design from the TehranUniversity of Art. Since the beginning of her artistic practice, she has been engaged with environmental and site-specific art, developing a close relationship with natural landscapes, materials, and local narratives. These experiences shaped her ongoing exploration of landscape as a space where human presence, history, and memory are continuously transformed.Drawing from Persian literature and mythology, particularly the works of Nezami, Attar, and Ferdowsi, Soltani reinterprets ancient narratives through contemporary spatial experiences. Rather than illustrating myths, she reveals their underlying landscapes and explores their relevance to themes of endurance, resistance, freedom, and human existence.Through large-scale installations, painting, and material-based processes, Soltani creates landscapes that invite physical and emotional encounters. Her works investigate how places preserve traces of the past, how materials carry memory, and how art can offer alternative ways of perceiving the relationship between humans and the natural world. Soltani has presented five solo exhibitions and participated in more than thirty group exhibitions internationally, including projects in Iran, Germany, Italy, Turkey and South Korea.

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solo exhibitions:

"Tisheh" 2026-Dayhim art society- Tehran Iran

"Qâf" 2024 -Dayhim art society- Tehran Iran

"Showing Transparency" 2020 - 3platform gallery-Tehran

“In praise of deterioration” 2018 - FarmanFarma gallery- Tehran

"Hanabandan" 2007 - Iranian Artist's House - Tehran

Selected of Group exhibition:

2026| DasMan-Sharif Gallery- Tehran- Iran

2024| "Absence"-dayhim art society- Tehran- Iran

2024| persbook -Iranshahr Gallery- Tehran- Iran

2024| ColourEast -Baiss Gallery- Italy

2023| Hamvandgan -Risheh Gallery- Tehran- Iran

2023| Seen -Chishmeh Gallery- Istanbul - Turkey

2023| Ghaf -Amanatdari Space- Rasht- Iran

2023| Can you hear me -Galerie Gublia- Essen- Germany

2023|Ghizh - Sharif - Gallery- Tehran - Iran

2023| Here / There -Galerie Foyer & KKB Bonn - Germany

2023| vettevertici (mountain & human right) - studio wuwei - Italy

2022| Ast Studio- Art residency project- Yazd- Iran

2022| Faceless Project- Farshfilm Institute- Tehran

2022| Part Of Piece- Nowon Gallery- Tehran

2022| Dear Fractured Stones- Sumac Space

2021| Vista Contemporary Art Prise- Tehran

2021| Patternitecture project- Niavaran Cultural Center- Tehran

2021| Jackal International Video Art Exhibition- Tehran

2020| Group video art exhibition - Hoorshid Residency- Esfahan, Iran

2019| International environmental art festival- Chabahar, Iran

2019| Baharestan- the festival of urban art- Tehran

2018| Baharestan- the festival of urban art- Tehran

2016| Rite of Passage, Environmental art exhibition- San Francisco City Hall, USA

2016| Derakhtestan- the festival of urban art- Tehran

2015| Fish & Coral, Group Exhibition- Niavaran Cultural Center- Tehran

2014| Small Size Work - painting exhibition, Aria Gallery- Tehran

2014| Earth & Time, the world of environmental art in Iran, Iranian Artists’ Forum- Tehran

2013| Tehran’s Environmental Art Festival- Laleh Park- Tehran

2013| Sheila Gallery’s Third Anniversary, Painting & Performance- Tehran

2012| Beyond Limited Spaces, invited Iranian Nature Artists Exhibition, Yatoo International Art Center- South Korea

2012| Damoonfar painting festival, Mellat Cineplex Gallery- Tehran

2011| 8th Tehran Painting biennial

2011| Iran Environmental Artists- Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art

2011| environmental art festival, Hormoz Island, Iran

2010| Shoshtar Art Festival- University of Shoshtar, Iran

2010| Heaven at the 16th street , Laleh gallery, Tehran

2010| The ­rst student visual arts festival - Imam Ali museum - Tehran

2010| First Iranian contemporary art online contest (Persbook)

2009| Environmental Art Festival, Hormoz Island, Iran

2009| Young Visual Arts Festival- Tehran

2009| Environmental Art Festival in Pardis- Poloor, Iran

2009| Environmental Art Festival in Hasanabad- Isfahan, Iran

2008| The third festival of contemporary drawing in Iran- Imam Ali museum- Tehran

2008| New Languages, New Art- Laleh gallery, Tehran Iran

2008| Environmental Art Festival in Bagh Bahadoran, Esfahan, Iran

2008| Environmental Art Festival in Noshahr, Marlik University, Iran

2007| The second festival of contemporary drawing in Iran- Imam Ali museum - Tehra