EDUCATION
CLASS OF 2020 | MFA IN STUDIO ART |CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS, SANTA CLARITA, CA
2011 - 2015 | BFA IN STUDIO ART | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, AUSTIN, TX
2004 - 2009 | BACHELOR OF ARTS | CULTURAL HERITAGE UNIVERSITY, TEHRAN, IRAN
Conservation & Preservation of Historic Places
EXHIBITIONS & CREATIONS
GALLERY SHOWS
2024 — Helene Relief Fundraiser, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2024 — Performance in Flux, “Video Flux,” Miami Art Society, Miami, FL
2024 — Words & Pictures, Online Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Los Angeles, CA
2024 — Keystone Gallery, “The Dinner Party”, Los Angeles, CA
2024 — Performance in Flux, “Performance as a Medium”, Colour Senses Project, Miami, FL
2023 — STUDIO M41, "Pequeño formato: big issues", Barcelona, Spain
2023 — Peabody Essex Museum, “After Hope: Videos of Resistance”, Salem, Massachusetts
2023 — Tiger Strike Asteroid, Cindy Rehm “Double-body” Video Program, Los Angeles, CA
2022 — Hellen J Gallery, “DUREE,” Calarts MFA 22 Post-Grad Show, Los Angeles, CA
2022 — UCLA’s International New Wight Biennial, “Between the Self and its True Home,” Los Angeles, CA
2022 — The California Institute of The Arts — Calarts’s experimental ethos/Expo 22— Santa Clarita, CA
2022 — "Prise de Parole" University of Grenoble, “The exiled voice”, The Maison de la Création et de l'Innovation, Grenoble, France
2022 — The California Institute of The Arts, MFA Thesis Show, film screening “The Shadow on The Wall” — Santa Clarita, CA
2022 — Anat Ebgi Gallery, “Dream House Zine Project” — Los Angeles, CA
2021 — The California Institute of The Arts MFA Group Show “Cross Weird” — Santa Clarita, CA
2021 — Le Festival Oodaaq “My Body for your Loneliness”— Rennes, France — Virtual Exhibition
2021 — The California Institute of The Arts — Calarts’s experimental ethos/Expo 2021 — Virtual Exhibition
2021 — Asian Art Museum “After Hope: Videos of Resistance” — San Francisco, CA
2021 — Project 13 “Walking” — Virtual Exhibition
2021 — Project 13 “When People Decide to End Themselves” — Virtual Exhibition
2020 — Mills College of Art “Home/Body” — Oakland, CA
2020 — Root Division Gallery “Reflection on Exile” — San Francisco, CA
2019 — ArtEgg Studios “Second Friday” — New Orleans, LA
2019 — Aggregate Space Gallery “Space Between Space” — Oakland, CA
2019 — Artist Television Access “In Honor Of…” — San Francisco, CA
2015 — Visual Art Center “Senior Seminar 2015 Exhibition” — Austin, TX
2015 — W Hotel “Senior Exhibition”— Austin, TX
PERFORMANCE ART
2024 — Irrational Exhibit the 13th, Gallery 515, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
2024 — “Colors of Change: Weaving Women’s Stories of Peace”, Acting Like a Women Fundraiser,
Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2023 — “Autopsicografia Reading Night”, Curated by Amanda Maciel Antunes, Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 — Irrational Exhibit the 12th, Gallery 515, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
2023 — “Feminism Is for Everybody”, Collaborating with Joana Cardozo & Lydia Horne, Santa Monia Pier, CA
2023 — “Performant Archive, Suzanne Lacy & Leslie Labowitz”, Redcat, Los Angeles, CA
2022 — Self Oscillation, Lois Lambert Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2022 — “We Are feminist”, Collaborating with Joana Cardozo, Calarts Open Studio, Santa Clarita, CA
2021 — Secret Marfa, Marfa, TX
2020 — Imagine If It Was Tehran, Castro, San Francisco, CA
2019 — Participatory performance “White Wednesdays” at Clarion Alley Project — San Francisco, CA
2019 — Stage performance “Hijab” at Artist Television Access— San Francisco, CA
2015 — Stage performance “Hijab” at Visual Art Center— Austin, TX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 — fabula LA Research En Litterature, Los Angeles, CA
2024 — Cuper Magazine, Los Angeles, CA
2023 — After Hope, Videos of Resistance, San Francisco, CA
2023 — The Evergreen Review, Hindrance, Los Angeles, CA
2022 — Cinema Without Boarders, The Shadow on The Wall, Conversation with Directors
2022 — Shout Out LA, Meet The Artist, Los Angeles, CA
2019 — Radio Pooya, Interview, “In Honor of…”
2019 — BBC News, Interview, “In Honor of…”
2015 — Cole Bubenik, Reviews: The 2015 UT Senior Art Exhibition, UP & UP
2015 — Seth Orion Schwaiger, Up + Up 2015 Senior Art Exhibition
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2024 — Artist Assistant, Aline Lili Mare, Joy Ray, Jerri Allyn
2022-23 — Gallery Manager at Hamzianpour & Kia, Los Angeles, CA
2022 — Gallery Manager at Von Lintel Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2021 — 2022 Paul Brach Lecture Series Organizer, Los Angeles, CA
2021 — California State Summer School for The Art, CSSSA, Teaching Assistant, Los Angeles, CA
2021 — Teaching assistant at California Institute of The Arts, Santa Clarita, CA
2021 — Founder of Project13 Virtual Exhibition Series alongside four female Iranian artists
2019 — Publicity Assistant at Iranian Diaspora, Once at Present Exhibition, Curated by Taraneh Hemami, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2018 — Docent at art brief iv Exhibition, Curated by Advocartsy, SOMArt Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2018 — Curator Assistant at Amphibology Exhibition curated by Roya Khadjavi Project, New York, NY
2016 — Contemporary Austin Museum, Photographer, Mark Mothersbaugh opening exhibition and book-signing event, Austin, TX
2016 — Lifetouch Photography, Austin, TX
2015 — Contemporary Austin Museum, Videographer, Austin, TX
2013 — Blanton Museum, Volunteer, Austin, TX
2013 — Mexic Arte, Teaching Assistant, Austin, TX
ARTIST TALK
2023 — Visiting Artist/Artist Talk, Life Drawing Class, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2022 — UCLA’s International New Wight Biennial Panel Discussion, “Between the Self and its True Home,” Los Angeles, CA
2021 — Interrobang at California Institute of The Arts
2021 — Artist talk at Crit Society, Virtual artist talk series
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2024 — International Thematic Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2022 — Cultuur Eindhoven
2022 — Bartman Grant
2022 — Dee Williams Travel Grant
2022 — Art School Dean Grant
2021 — Nick England Intercultural Arts Project (ICAP) Grant
2021 — Lillian Disney Scholarship
2015 — New York Seminar, New York, NY
2014 — The Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists' Residency, Saugatuck, Michigan
2009 — Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System, Shushtar, Iran
2008 — Ood Lajan Historic City, Cultural Heritage Dept, Tehran, Iran
2007 — Parse (Pasargad) historical city, Cultural Heritage Dept, Shiraz, Iran