Born in Tehran, Iran
Living and working in Teheran and Chicago
Educations:
- 2015. Master of Fine Arts | Art Theory and Practice | Northwestern University | Evanston | USA
- 2011. Bachelor of Fine Arts | Visual Communication | Enghelab College of Art and Architecture | Tehran | Iran
- 2008. Associate’s Degree| Computer Graphics | Tehran Information Technology Institute | Tehran | Iran
Exhibitions:
- 2017. Brown People Are the Wrens in the Parking Lot | Group Exhibition | Initiated by William Pope.L | Logan Center Gallery | Chicago
- 2017. Bread and Salt | Video Screening | The 8thFloor | Rubin Foundation | New York
- 2017. Front & Center | Group Exhibition | HydePark Art Center | Chicago
- 2017. Challenges of Imagination | Lecture-Performance | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | San Francisco
- 2017. Dangerous Professors | Group Exhibition | Triumph Gallery | Chicago
- 2017. Reproducibles | Espacio El Dorado | Bogotá | Colombia
- 2017. AZAD | Azad Art Gallery Collaborative Design Project | Graphic Design Festival Paris | Musée Des Arts Décoratifs | Paris | France
- 2016. Lucid Figurations: Movie Poster and Film Art Symposium | Block Museum | Evanston | USA
- 2016. AZAD | Azad Art Gallery Collaborative Design Project | Hinterland Galerie | Vienna | Austria
- 2016. Wake-Up Stories | CLUB SOLO | BREDA | NETHERLANDS
- 2016. Lucchiche (shimmering): A Video Art Symposium | Ponte di Ferro | Carrara | Italy
- 2016. Signs from Iran | Museum for Islamic Art | Jerusalem
- 2016. Visual Arts Exhibition | Luminarts Cultural Foundation | Chicago
- 2016. Authoritative Design | Azad Art Gallery Collaborative Design Project | Sheikh Zayed Gallery | Beirut | Lebanon
- 2016. Limited Access 6 | Festival of moving images, sound and performance | Tehran | Iran
- 2015. Age of Consent | Block Museum | Evanston | USA
- 2015. Post Past | Invitational Poster Exhibition | Hermitage Museum | St. Petersburg | Russia
- 2015. Chiran | An Invitational Poster Exhibition | Gorgan, Iran and Shanxi University, China
- 2015. Talk and Screening of Shahed | Persian Discussion Nights | Northwestern University
- 2015. 12th Festival of "Image of the Year" | Invitational Poster Exhibition | Tehran | Iran
- 2015. To Forget | Screening of "Dey" Night | Temple University | Rome | Italy
- 2014. Drawing Words | Typographic Posters Exhibition | Tel Aviv | Israel
- 2014. Parishani | Screening of "Dey" Night | Art Cinema OFFoff | Belgium
- 2014. Golden Bee 11 | Global Bienniale of Graphic Design | Moscow | Russia
- 2014. 11th Festival of "Image of the Year" | Invitational Poster Exhibition | Tehran | Iran
- 2013. Surveilling the Naked City | Video Art from Tehran | Oslo | Norway
- 2013. The 6th China International Poster Biennial | Hangzhou | China
- 2012. 2nd MUIP Biennial | Marmara University International Poster Biennial | Istanbul | Turkey
- 2012. Video-Therapy, Session one: Recovery | Video Screening | Stueben Gallery, Pratt Institute | New York | USA
- 2012. Right to Left | Graphic Design from the Arab World and Iran | Berlin | Germany
- 2012. TehraNYC | Group Exhibition | New York | USA
- 2011. The 5th China International Poster Biennial | Hangzhou | China
- 2011. The 5th Taiwan International Poster Design Award | Taiwan
- 2011. Pattern | A Group Poster Exhibition Titled| Yazd | Iran
- 2010. 2nd Chicago International Poster Biennial | USA
- 2010. The 3rd Festival of Damoonfar(Faber-Castell) Visual Arts | Tehran | Iran
- 2010. Golden Bee 9, Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design | Russia
- 2010. Divarkoob Group Poster Exhibition | Isfahan, Shirza, Mashad, Tehran | Iran
- 2010. 21st Chaumont International Poster Festival Competition | France
- 2010. Group exhibition titled “Tarahane Azad” | Azad Art Gallery | Tehran | Iran
- 2009. “Generazione Verde” Group Poster Exhibition (Graphic Designers Born After the 1979 Revolution in Iran) | Cartacanta Festival Expo | Civitanova Marche | Italy
- 2009. The 3rd International Graphic Biennial of the Islamic World | Tehran | Iran
- 2009. The 7th Trnava International Poster Triennial | Slovakia
- 2008. The 3rd World Biennial Exhibition of Student Posters | Novi Sad | Serbia
- 2008. Good 50X70 Poster Exhibition (STDs Category) | Milan | Italy
- 2007. The 2nd Int’l Annual Exhibition of Dictionary Illustrations | Tehran | Iran
Awards:
- 2017. Center Program | HydePark Art Center | Chicago
- 2016. Luminarts Fellowship | Luminarts Cultural Foundation | Chicago
- 2016. Edes Runner-up Prize | The Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation
- 2013-2015. University Fellow | Northwestern University | Evanston | USA
- 2011. Stephan Bundi Jury Award | The 5th China International Poster Biennial
- 2010. Typographic Excellence | The 2nd Chicago International Poster Biennial
- 2010. Runner-up Award | the 3rd Damoonfar (Faber-Castell) Visual Arts Festival | Iran