Reza Nik
Reza Nik is an architect, artist and educator based in Toronto, Canada. He is the founding director of SHEEEP, an experimental architecture studio working through an equitable lens. Reza has a background in Art History and he is currently an Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. His research is focused on a deeper dialogue between the socio-political nuances of the urban context and playful experimentation – as researched through his course Guided Distractions. Disrupting the traditional architectural processes and institutions is at the forefront of his pedagogy and practice.
Prior to founding SHEEEP, Reza worked with experimental practices like Coop Himmelb(l)au in Vienna & the Living Architecture Systems Group led by Philip Beesley in Toronto. He has also worked with various architectural studios since 2007 in Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Toronto including Diamond Schmitt Architects and StudioAC. Reza has also participated in various design-build projects led by Sergio Palleroni in India and Argentina. The social impact of Architecture is something he has been investigating for over a decade. He is also one of the founding members and the co-steward of the Toronto chapter of the Architecture Lobby, an organization advocating for labor rights for architectural workers and encouraging a more critical discourse within the profession.
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PUBLIC ART EXHIBITION: Place Settings II
August 21, 2022 - September 17, 2022Place Settings: Part II
Featuring works by Adrià Julià, Larissa Sansour, and Reza Nik
Curated by Noa Bronstein
Place Settings continues this summer with performance-based projects staged throughout the city of Toronto. Each project engages in a discursive gesture that considers new possibilities at the intersections of food practices and public space, revealing the shareable and relational qualities of both.
Find out moreReza Nik: sofreh for two
August 21, 2022 - August 21, 2022REZA NIK
sofreh for two, 2022
Location: Iranian Plaza (6075 Yonge St, North York)
Date: August 21, 12pm – 2pm
Outdoors, free to the public
*The Iranian Plaza is accessible by TTC using the 97, 61 or 53 bus routes which are all wheelchair accessible routes. The plaza is a strip mall with parking including accessible parking in the front.
Reza Nik’s sofreh for two references both Iranian food and drink carts and ‘Sofreh’, a loose term translated to a textile on which food is served but that often functions as a shorthand for various preparations, practices, ceremonies and rituals. This improvisational performance is mediated through a roving structure that considers the spatial facets of food and feasting as narrated through diasporic and intergenerational experiences and memories.
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