Sanna Namin is a Swedish/Iranian multidisciplinary artist from Stockholm. Their artistic endeavors encompass a diverse range of mediums within the visual arts, including sculpture, textiles, performance and costume. Their practice navigates the intersection of identity politics, working through the conflict and challenges by figuring new forms, free of historic or inherited conceptions and assumptions. Blurring the boundaries between art and fashion, by body-building wearable sculptures interrogating the possibility of material properties and compositions of stretch fabrics, foam and metal.

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

  • 2026: Mycket Händer!, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2026: Husby Konstsalong, Husby Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2026: Tekstil, Galleri Kbh Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 2026: Analogue, Hypha Studios / Hypha HQ, London, UK

  • 2025: Softening the Edges, The Koppel Project, London, UK

  • 2025: Revealing Matter’s Potential, Residency Exhibition, The Periplus Project, Crete, Greece

  • 2024: The Periplus Project, Athens Design Week, Athens, Greece

  • 2024: Towards a New Materiality, Residency Exhibition, The Periplus Project, Crete, Greece

  • 2023: Graduation Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK

  • 2023: 100% Optical, ExCeL London, London, UK

    Residencies & Workshops

  • 2026: Artist Residency, Ria Keburia Foundation, Kachreti, Georgia

  • 2025: Royal Designers Summer Session, Royal Designers for Industry, Devon, UK

  • 2025: Revealing Matter’s Potential, Interdisciplinary Residency, Periplus Project, Crete, Greece

  • 2024: Towards a New Materiality, Interdisciplinary Residency, Periplus Project, Crete, Greece

    Features & Publications

  • 2026: Hube Magazine – "Sanna Namin’s Embodied Language: Wearable Sculptures and the Art of Activation"

  • 2025: Georgia Today – "Holding Freedom: Art in the Shadow of Iran"

  • 2024: Dazed Magazine – "Jesse Glazzard & Sanna Namin: Is Fashion Art?"

    Grants & Awards

  • 2026: Assistant Grant - Swedish Arts Grants Committee

  • 2024: Carl Cason

  • 2023: Anna Whitlock Memorial Fund

  • 2023: Estrid Ericson

  • 2023: Carl Erik Levin

  • 2022: Helge Ax:son

  • 2022: JL Eklund Crafts Foundation

  • 2022: Axel N Anderson

  • 2017: Gap Inc Global Award