​Sarvenaz Amanat (b. London, UK) is a visual artist, composer, independent curator and founder of Gallery1515 in Vancouver. She is also a radio host for When Spirit Whispers on Vancouver Co-op Radio and works in museum education at the Vancouver Art Gallery. 
In the past, she has worked at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago and as a museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago. She holds an undergraduate degree in Art History from McGill University and a master’s degree in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Sarvenaz has lived in Vancouver since age 3, with brief sojourns in Montreal, London, Chicago and New York City.

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