Omid Asadi is a Manchester-based artist whose practice explores how memory, force, and displacement are carried through materials, spatial conditions, and sensory experience. Working across installation, sculpture, sound, and olfactory elements, he constructs environments in which presence and absence coexist, often through fragile or unstable material relationships that hold contradiction without resolving it.
His work is shaped by experiences across distinct and often conflicting systems: studying fluid mechanics, working in the oil industry, growing up in post-revolution Iran during the Iran–Iraq War, and later migrating to the UK in 2007. Coming to art later in life, Asadi began foundational studies in 2012 and went on to earn an MA in Fine Art with Distinction from Manchester School of Art in 2018.
His work has been supported by Jerwood, HOME, and Wysing Arts Centre, and he has undertaken residencies at Cove Park, Instituto Sacatar, and Factory International. Recent projects include a solo exhibition at Castlefield Gallery and an ongoing commission with Energy House 2.0 and the University of Salford Art Collection. His work has been shown in national and international exhibitions.
While earlier works engaged more explicitly with geopolitical displacement, recent projects focus on the disappearance of domestic and lived spaces, and the perceptual instability produced through their absence. These works create immersive environments in which viewers become physically and emotionally implicated in conditions of loss, memory, and fragmentation.
