Bio

Hani Kaveh is an Iranian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Toronto, Canada, whose practice navigates the intersections of art, design, and psychology. With a sustained interest in how bodies, spaces, and materials hold and transmit experience, her work examines the complex entanglements of perception, memory, and social dynamics. Hani’s practice spans sculpture, installation, and mixed-media work, often exploring the figure and the environment as sites where psychological and social forces converge.

Born in Tehran, she began her artistic training in graphic design at the Art and Architecture University, where early engagement with image, composition, and visual language laid the foundation for her interdisciplinary approach. After moving to Canada in 2005, she expanded her studies at OCAD University in Toronto, exploring environmental design and cultivating a sensitivity to space as constructed, perceived, and inhabited. Her investigations into human-environment interaction continued in Montreal, culminating in a Concordia University exhibition examining psychiatric space and the embodied experience of architecture.

Since 2021, Hani has focused primarily on sculpture, developing a body of work in which the figure is distorted, fragmented, and held in tension, reflecting the unseen, the remembered, and the felt. Her background in design informs the work’s spatial precision, while her engagement with psychodynamic thought enriches its psychological and social depth.