Omid Asadi (b. 1979, Iran) is a Manchester-based artist working across installation, sculpture, performance, video, sound and scent. His practice explores how memory, force and displacement are carried through materials, spatial conditions and sensory experience. He constructs environments in which presence and absence coexist, often using fragile or unstable material relationships to hold contradictions without resolving them.

His recent work focuses on the disappearance of domestic and lived spaces and the perceptual instability created by their absence. Rather than documenting loss, Asadi creates conditions in which its emotional and sensory consequences can be experienced directly. Contrast is central to this approach: between fragile and heavy materials, personal and political histories, different cultures, and what remains and what has disappeared. Scent and sound are used where they can activate spatial and emotional memory beyond visual representation.

Asadi grew up in post-revolutionary Iran during the Iran–Iraq War. He studied fluid mechanics and worked in the oil industry before moving to the UK in 2007. In 2012, he began studying art at Level 1 at college, starting his formal art education from its foundation. Alongside his studies, he independently explored leaf cutting at home, creating intricate works from fallen leaves. This early engagement with fragility, material transformation and overlooked matter continues to inform his current multidisciplinary practice. He went on to complete an MA in Fine Art with Distinction at Manchester School of Art in 2018.

His work has been supported by Jerwood, HOME, Wysing Arts Centre and Factory International. He has undertaken residencies at Cove Park and Instituto Sacatar, and received the Manchester Culture Award for Independent Creative of the Year in 2024. 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.