Education
2016 Post Graduate Degree, College Teacher Training Program, George Brown College, Toronto
1997 Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Art University of Tehran, Iran
1997 Bachelor of Arts, Translation, Azad University, Tehran, Iran
1994 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art University of Tehran, Iran
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Portraiture Now: Iranian Contemporary, Group Exhibition, ADVOCARTSY, Los Angeles, California, USA
2024 The Edge of the Cloud, Video Installation, Group Exhibition Women, Life, Freedom, in collaboration with Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken, Saarländische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2023 Unsolicited Love Letters, Multichannel Video Installation, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
2023 Second Paykan Art Car, Multimedia Installation, Oslo Freedom Forum, Oslo, Norway
2023 Elephant in the Dark, Multimedia Installation, curated by Dr. Michael Chagnon, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
2023 Solo Exhibition, Sahar K. Boluki Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2022 Image? The Power of the Visual, Video Installation, curated by Dr. Marika Sardar, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
2021 Once Upon a Time, Group Exhibition, ADVOCARTSY, Los Angeles, California, USA
2021 Video Installation, Tehran Auction, represented by Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2021 Video Installation, Sheen Gallery, Tehran, Iran, curated by Sanam Samanian (Canadian Artists)
2020 Group 30+ Flowlogy, Video Installation, curated by A. H. Ordouei, Iranshahr Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2019 School Diary, Video Installation, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
2019 Body Politics, Video Installation, curated by Mania Akbari and A. Ghasemi, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
2019 Video Installation, curated by Teodora Talhos, Galleria de Arta Reperaj, Oradea, Romania
2019 Group Exhibition (Painting), curated by Roshi Rahnama, The Space by ADVOCARTSY, Santa Monica, California, USA
2019 First Act, Second Act, Solo Exhibition, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018 Iranian Contemporary Art, Group Exhibition, ADVOCARTSY & MAP, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2017 Video Installation, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Awards and Accolades
2003–2004 Winner of the Grand Prize, International Dhaka Biennial, for Rising Up or Falling Down (Video Installation)
2009 Shortlisted, Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize, London, England
2022 Professional Artist Member, CARFAC Ontario
2022 Board Member, SALOON Ontario, division of SALOON Network Artists
2024 Co-founder, CanDo Academy, Toronto, Canada
Publications
A Crooked Path Through History: Iranian Exile Art, Dr. Shiva Balaghi, Social Research, International Quarterly
Künstler Unterwegs: Wege und Grenzen des Reinens, Harald Penchlar | Elisa Innerhorfer (eds.), Nomos, 2018
Okzidentalismen: Projektionen und Reflexionen des Westens in Kunst, Ästhetik und Kultur, Germany
The Artist, The Censor, and The Nude: A Tale of Morality and Appropriation, Glenn Harcourt, Artwork by Pamela Joseph, Foreword by Francis M. Nauman, DoppelHouse Press, Los Angeles, 2017
Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives, Hamid Keshmirshekan PhD, Saqi Books, Great Britain, 2013, ISBN 978-0-86356-721-6
Selected Press
Kunst und Kirche, Post-Orientalismus?, Magazine für Kritik, Ästhetik und Religion, 2019
Kritische Berichte, No. 2, Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, Jonas Verlag, Article by Julia Allerstorfer, 2019
14 Iranian Artists Explore Just How Complex Immigration and Identity Can Be, Article by Priscilla Frank, Huffington Post, February 2, 2017
It’s All About Change: Snapshots from Tehran Contemporary Art Scene, Ingo Arend, Nafas Magazine, 2011
Klein, Fein, Präzise: Drei Ausstellungen in der Memmingen Kunsthalle, Christoph Wiedmann, Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 20, 2014
Academic Research
2021 The Space Between the Lands: Migration in the Works of Iranian Canadian Diasporic Artists, Kiana Darvish-Mansouri, MA Thesis, Department of Art History, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
