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:                                                                                                                                                                                                               

2023 Slow and Sweaty, Shag, Connecticut, United States

2022 Between Lands, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, United States

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

 

PUBLICATIONS:     

2020 Current Press, NOW, second edition, New York, NY

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 “Thesis 1 and 2” to undergraduate students in the Illustration department

        • Teaching “Core Seminar 3D” to undergraduate students in the Illustration department

        • Coordinating and Teaching “Core Seminar 4: Systems and Networks” to undergraduate students in the Fine Arts department

        • Teaching “Core Seminar 3: Site and Context” to undergraduate students in the Fine Arts department

        • Teaching “Core Studio 1: 3D” to undergraduate students in the Fine Arts department

Visiting faculty at Columbia University, School of the Arts, 2022-2023 

        • Studio visits with senior thesis students in the fine arts undergraduate program

Adjunct faculty at SUNY University at Albany, Albany, NY, 2022-2023

        • Teaching “Drawing” and “Advanced Sculpture” to undergraduate students in the Fine Arts department

Adjunct faculty at Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, 2019-2022

        • Teaching “Process and Media: Time” to undergraduate students 

        • Teaching “Digital Literacy” to undergraduate students