About

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 Master of Fine Arts by Research from the Victorian College of Arts. 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 currently undertaking the studio residency program at Gertrude Contemporary and is represented by Futures Gallery in Naarm/Melbourne.