Mir Mohammadreza (Reza) Heydari is an Iranian artist and researcher working across performance, moving image, sound, and conceptual projects. His practice often investigates situations where performance shifts away from the performer’s body and emerges through spaces, objects, media systems, and viewers.

His works move between exhibition, theater, and site-based formats, exploring absence, mediation, and the transformation of lived experience into image, trace, or structure. Recurring concerns in his practice include the limits of performance, the displacement of presence, and the ways ideological, technological, or environmental conditions shape perception.

Alongside his artistic work, Heydari has published historical and cultural research on performance traditions in Iran and has contributed to international academic publications on puppetry, ritual performance, and intercultural theatre history. His projects have been presented in galleries, theatrical contexts, and research-based platforms.