Panteha Abareshi

Panteha Abareshi (; born 1999) is a Canadian-born American multidisciplinary artist and curator, primarily working within installation art, video art, and performance art. They are of Jamaican and Iranian descent, and their work is about chronic illness and disability. Abareshi is based in Los Angeles, California.

Early life Panteha Abareshi was born in 1999 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and raised in Tucson, Arizona. Abareshi's mother is Jamaican and their father is Iranian; they were primarily raised by their single father. Abareshi was born with the genetic blood disorder, Sickle cell zero beta thalassemia which causes chronic pain and more pain as they age.

Education Abareshi attended the University of Southern California (USC) in the Roski School of Art and Design.

Abareshi uses the experience of chronic illness to examine concepts of medical violence, representation, materialness, and more.

In January 2020, Abareshi was on the cover of Bitch Magazine (spring 2020, 86 issue). In spring 2020, they published the art book, Panteha Abareshi: I Am Inside the Body (published by Sming Sming Books). Abareshi was awarded the 2021 VSA Emerging Artists Competition, by the Kennedy Center. 2021 – Panteha Abareshi: Tender Calamities, solo exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles, California

Filmography

Infanticide (2018), performance based video Not Better Yet (2019), Super 8 and VHS film For Medical Use Only (2019), 8 mm and hi8 film For Parts (2020), VHS video