Sara Masinaei (b. 1982, Tehran) is a UAE-based multidisciplinary artist working across installation, performance, photography, video, audio and mixed-media within a research-led practice. Her work explores themes of belonging, memory, identity, and the ways sociopolitical histories become embedded within landscapes, bodies, and everyday spaces. Through embodied processes such as walking, collecting, tracing, documenting, performance and spatial intervention, she investigates the intersections of personal narratives, geopolitics, and cultural geographies. Her practice considers how identities and collective narratives are continually formed, displaced, and reassembled through lived experience and site-specific engagement.

Masinaei holds a BFA in Visual Communication, with concentration in Photography, from the American University in Dubai (2004) and an MA from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (2011).