Sara R. Yazdani is a Swedish-Iranian art historian and art critic. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Art History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, affiliated with the cluster “Matters of Activity: Image Space Material” and Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte. She is also a special lecturer at the University of the Arts, London, and a guest lecturer in art theory at the Oslo National Academy of the Fine Arts, Oslo.
Her work is published in Art Journal, Afterimage (forthcoming), Flash Art, Artforum International, Mousse Magazine, Kunstkritikk, Art & Education, Objektiv, and a number of anthologies and exhibition catalogues on modern and contemporary art.
Yazdani’s fields of research and teaching are modern and contemporary art with a particular focus on ecology, the relationship between art, media, technologies, theories of the Anthropocene, and process philosophy. She is currently working on her first monograph, Self-Sufficiency and Becoming, a critical history of Wolfgang Tillmans’s oeuvre, and the reemergence of an ecological, processual approach to visual art.