EDUCATION:
2016-2018 MFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, United States
2010-2013 MFA in Painting, University of Tehran, College of Fine Arts, Tehran, Iran
2004-2009 B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2021 BRONX CALLING: The Fifth AIM Biennial”, Bronx Museum, New York, United States
2021 Memory Work, Unrequited Leisure Gallery, Nashville, United States
2021 November, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio, United States
2020 Center is not a particular Point on the Earth’s Surface, A.I.R Gallery (Solo Show), New York, United States
2020 Soft Windows, Public Swim, New York, United States
2020 Source Matters, NARS Foundation, New York, United States
2020 Grasping fragments, or otherwise calculating distance, UT Austin, United States
2019 A Bridge Between You and Everything, High Line Nine, New York, United States
2019 Install/Deinstall, 601 Artspace, New York, United States
2019 The Window Box Project, Grid-space Gallery, New York, United States
2019 A Rain of Light and Death, 17 Essex Gallery, New York, United States
2019 Complicit- Erasure of the Body, Nasty Women, Connecticut, United States
2018 Convergence (Juried exhibition), Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, New York
2018 The Hybrid of Being, Westbeth Gallery, New York, United States
2018 Growing Pebbles, Sleep Center, New York, United States
2017 Manifestos Unheard, 25 East Gallery, New York, United States
2017 Between, Skybridge Art Space, New York, United States
2016 Paper: An Art Exhibition, The Mine Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2015 Imago Mundi, Exhibition of Luciano Benetton Collection, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
2015 Mersi Poesi, 10th Gothenburg International Poetry Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
2013 3rd Fadjr International Festival of Visual Arts (Juried exhibition), Saba Art Academy, Tehran, Iran
RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2020 BRIC Media Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY
2020 NARS Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2019-2020 A.I.R. Fellowship, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 BRICworkspace Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2018 MASS MoCA Residency, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
2018 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, Maine, United States
SELECTED COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS:
2018 Fissure in The Air, Public installation and performance, Skowhegan, ME
Collaborated with Bahareh Khoshooee at Skowhegan School
2016 Dream Catcher, Installation, Tehran, Iran
Collaborated with nine craftswomen in an abandoned house in Tehran for six months.
The venue was open to invitees to visit for ten days at the end of the project.
This project was instigated by Bita Fayyazi.
2015 In Cahoots, Installation, Tehran, Iran
Collaborated with nine artists in turning a torn-down house into a temporary art venue.
PUBLICATIONS:
2019 Art Talk: The Early 80s, Published by Charsoo Art Institute, Tehran, Iran
2018 Kalaktive Zine (Edition of 40), The Chicago Art Book Fair, Fully Booked, Chicago
2018 Four years Four Projects, Published by Prince Claus Fund for culture and development
2014 Fabric (Pnzano Veneto) - Irano mutomorphosis,
2011 Institute For Promotion of Contemporary Visual Art, Selected Works of Young Iranian Artists - The Third Fadjr International Festival of Visual Arts
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Adjunct faculty at The New School, Parsons School of Design, NY, 2021-Present
Teaching “Core Seminar 4” to undergraduate students in the Fine Arts department
Teaching “Core Studio 1: 3D” to undergraduate students in the Fine Arts department
Teaching “Core Seminar 3D” to undergraduate students in the Illustration department
Adjunct faculty at Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, 2019-Present
Teaching “Digital Literacy” to undergraduate students
Teaching “Process and Media: Time” to undergraduate students