A multidisciplinary artist, Maryam Izadifard first specialized in painting at the University of Art in Tehran before completing a Master's degree in Visual and Media Arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
In her paintings, she crystallizes the domestic space by capturing suspended light-the fleeting moment when it brushes against ordinary objects, rendering them almost insignificant. Through this approach, Izadifard gives form to the central themes of her research: solitude and isolation. Whether physical or psychological, the artist explores these spaces in an effort to approach alienation as something familiar, deliberately losing herself in the streets of Montreal or confronting the challenge of isolation.
Through these wanderings, the landscape of her adopted land becomes imbued with her personal history. In her works, she transcribes her experience as a displaced woman, affirming a new conception of territory where the tensions between "city-body" and "body-city" become one. With this process, Izadifard questions how "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" shapes our daily lives and distorts our perception of both the living and the non-living.
In Quebec, her work has been exhibited at Maison Bélisle in Terrebonne, CDEx at UQAM, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, as well as in several galleries across Canada, most recently at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto. Internationally, she has exhibited at The Culture of Peace biennial in 2016 (Istanbul and Tehran) and at the University of Westminster in the UK (2017).
She has lived and worked in Tiohtià:ke - Mooniyang - Montreal (Canada) since 2011.