Rah Eleh

Rah Eleh is a visual artist and a PhD candidate at the die Angewandte (University of Applied Arts) in Vienna, Austria. Rah’s work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally at spaces including Venice Biennale (ECC, Palazzo Mora), The Juno Awards (Canada), National Museum (Oslo, Norway), Vögele Kultur Zentrum, (Pfäffikon, Switzerland), Nuit Blanche (Toronto), Museum London, Vienna Art Week (Austria), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, Massachusetts), Miami Art Basel, Nieuwe Vide (Haarlem, Netherlands), SomoS Art Haus (Berlin, Germany), and Onassis Cultural Center (Athens, Greece). She has been the recipient of numerous awards including Longlisted for the 2023 Sobey Art Award, Chalmers Arts Fellowship, numerous Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Art Council Grants, and SSHRC for her MFA and the CSG Doctoral Fellowship for her PhD. She has been awarded several residencies including the ONX Studio (NYC, NY, 2024), Intergenerational LGBTQ Artist Residency (Toronto Island, 2019), Koumaria Residency (Greece, 2016), MUU Galleria (Helsinki, 2015), Studio Das Weisse Haus (Vienna, 2014) and the Artslant Georgia Fee Residency (Paris).

Rah Eleh is represented by de Montigny Contemporary and Vtape, Canada’s leading artist-run distributor for video art.

2025 PhD in Artistic Research, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, Vienna, Austria, Advisor: Bouchra Khalili

2018 Western University, MFA, London, Ontario, Canada, Advisor: Daniela Sneppova

2013 University of Ottawa, BFA, Minor in Gender and Critical Race Studies,  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada