Hootan Heydari

Hootan Heydari is a Tehran-born, Naarm/Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist. His practice spans photography, sculpture, and installation, investigating how memory persists not as a stable record but as residue, rhythm, and continual return. A recurring point of anchor is the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran, not as biography but as a reverberation that shapes his engagement with the past.

Heydari holds a First-Class Honours degree from RMIT University and a Master of Fine Arts by research from the Victorian College of Arts. He was awarded the Art 150 Fellowship in 2024. Selected solo exhibitions include Remembering to Forget, Bundoora Homestead (2025) Your Place is Empty, Conners Conners (2024), The Past is Present, Futures Gallery (2023).

He is a sessional lecturer at RMIT University and has been an active member of the City of Melbourne Public Art Advisory Panel since 2024.

He is represented by Futures Gallery in Naarm/Melbourne.