Shahryar Shahamat is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Tehran, Iran, and based in New York City since 2010. Working across painting, performance, video, and installation, his practice explores the body, memory, identity, and transformation through abstract figurative forms, movement, and material experimentation.

His ongoing project Human on Human began as a painting practice rooted in repetition, intuition, and accidental forms, gradually expanding into performance and embodied work. Since 2023, Shahamat has studied Butoh under the mentorship of Vangeline at the New York Butoh Institute, bringing movement into dialogue with his visual practice.

His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and performances in New York and internationally. In 2025, Human on Human was presented at the Queer Butoh Festival in Brooklyn, where THINKINGDANCE described his performance through its “radical stillness.” In 2025–2026, he received support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for the development and presentation of interdisciplinary performance work.

Across painting and performance, Shahamat approaches the body as both image and material, a site where personal memory, cultural history, vulnerability, and transformation intersect.