Parham
Ghalamdar

Parham Ghalamdar is a multidisciplinary artist. Ghalamdar’s work traces forgotten mythologies, buried philosophies, and visual ruins, reconfiguring them into speculative worlds where memory, fiction, and futurism collapse into one another. Drawing on cybernetic theory and generative AI, he explores how systems of feedback, simulation, and machine vision mediate our understanding of history and possibility. Through painting, film, and writing, he builds narratives that feel both ancient and yet-to-come, haunted by lost histories and animated by possible futures.

Recent solo exhibitions include Painting, An Unending at the main gallery of HOME, Manchester, and Deep Desert Objekt at Pipeline Contemporary, London. His work has been showcased at institutions such as Caustic Coastal, the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Castlefield Gallery, the Whitworth, Manchester Art Gallery, and The Lowry.

Ghalamdar has received numerous accolades, including the UK New Artists bursary (2023), an ACE Project Grant, a DYCP grant, and an Innovative Grant. His work is part of esteemed collections, including the Government Art Collection. Currently, he is a scholarship recipient and certificate student at The New Centre for Research & Practice. He has also been awarded a 2024/25 APP Creative Commissions Programme commission at Leeds Arts University, with an upcoming solo exhibition at Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds, in 2026.

In 2025, Ghalamdar directed his first experimental short film, The Sight is a Wound, a video-essay that confronts the impossibility of image-making in the face of live-streamed genocide by burning over fifty of his own paintings as an act of refusal and a “funeral for the image.” The film has screened at over fifty festivals and art platforms, including Braziers International Film Festival (UK), Bristol Radical Film Festival, Darkroom Festival (London), CosmiX IV (Paris), X Festival Video nodoCCS (Caracas), Sluice Film Festival (Seydisfjordur), the NAE 2025 Open, Millennium Film Workshop (New York), and the Open Secret touring programme in London, Lisbon, Dhaka and Dubai. It has received honours including Best Short Documentary at the Gjon Mili International Video Art Festival and an Honorary Award for Efforts in Social Filmmaking at Activists Without Borders Film Festival.

He is the editor and co-author of Siahkal 2.0: An A.I. Resurrected Discourse on Marxism & Islam (2025), a hybrid reconstruction of Bizhan Jazani’s revolutionary theory through translation, simulation, and diagrammatic image-making, with two further titles forthcoming from Becoming Press.