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EDUCATION

2016	*Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX* M.F.A. Painting and Printmaking.
2009	*University of Tehran, Iran* M.A. Advance Studies of Art.
2007	*University of Alzahra, Tehran, Iran* B.F.A. Painting.
2003	*College Fine Art, Tehran, Iran* Diploma in Graphic Design.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2018-2019	*Spudnik Press,* Chicago, IL Part-time Art Instructor (Papermaking).
2016-2019	*Chicago Persian School,* Chicago, IL Part time Instructor.
2017	*Block Museum,* North Western University, Evanston, IL Printmaking workshop for opening the exhibition William Blake and the Age of Aquarius.
2017	*Noyes Cultural Center, Evancton, IL Part-time Art Instructor Summer art camp program. Spudnik Press,* Chicago, IL Part-time Art Instructor Workshops (Papermaking)
2016	*Texas Tech University*, Lubbock, TX Part-Time Instructor Painting-Introduction (3321)
	*Texas Tech University*, Lubbock, TX Part-time Instructor Printmaking. Summer Art Camp Program.
2015	*Texas Tech University*, Lubbock, TX Part-time Instructor Printmaking. Summer Camp Middle School, High School Program.
	*Texas Tech University*, Lubbock, TX Part Time Instructor Drawing. Up Ward Bound Program Drawing (1303).
2014	*Texas Tech University*, Lubbock, TX Graduate Part Time Instructor, Drawing: Introduction (1303), Painting. (3321).
2011-2012	*University of Applied Science and Technology*, Tehran, Iran Part Time Instructor Printmaking Intro.
2010-2012	*University of Applied Science and Technology,* Tehran, Iran Part Time Instructor Figure Drawing, Drawing Introduction, Drawing II.
2009-2012	*Private Tutor,* Tehran, Iran. Drawing, Oil Painting and Figure Drawing

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018	*Roots,* Spudnik Press Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2016	*Passage*, Studio Gallery, Lubbock, TX.
2015	*Shadow Facing the Light*,Satellite Gallery, Lubbock, TX.
2011	*Memoreies*, Naghshe Jahan Gallery, Tehran, Iran.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019	*SPC Annual Benefit,* Low Res, Chicago, IL.
	*Collective Ground,* Collaborative group show, Spudnik Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2018	*Stories of bodies,* Group show, Gallery Y, Chicago, IL.
2017	*Mudras,* Group show, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO. Crossing the Fellow Pop Up Exhibition, Spudnik Press Gallery, Chicago, IL. *Seventh International Mini Print Annual Exhibition” Norozaneh,* Group show Chicago Printmakers Collaborative Gallery, Chicago, IL. *Seventh International Mini Print Annual Exhibition “Norozaneh”,* Group show, Tehran, Chicago, Oslo, and Milan.
2016	*Fellowship printmaking Group Exhibition,* Group show, Spudnik Press Gallery, Chicago, IL.
	*Fifth Annual Juried International Exhibition of Contemporary Islamic Art,* Irving Art Centre, juried by Dr Maryam Ekhtiar, Associate Curator of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Dallas, TX.
	*Fifth International Student Small Print Show -SIPS16,* El Minia Gallery at El Minia University, juried by Sean Caulfield, Karen Kunc, Hamdi Abouelmaati, EL Minia, Egypt.

	*Union,* Joint video collaboration, screened at Alamo Cinema, Lubbock, TX.
2015	*Fourth Annual Juried International Exhibition of Contemporary Islamic Art,* Lumin Arte Gallery, juried by Salma Tuqan, Dallas, TX.
	*Wish you were Here 14, A.I.R Gallery, group show, Brooklyn, NY. Paint Pulse Magazine* featured artist, Issue 3, juried by Rosa JH Berland, Boston, MA.
	*Lubbock Area Texas Tech Art Alumni Exhibition*, group show, Landmark Gallery, School of Art, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
	*Form of Flux,* Perspectives on Contemporary Social and Political Landscapes, group exhibition, juried by Jordann Davise, Land mark Art Gallery, Lubbock, TX.
2014	*The11th A.I.R Gallery Biennial*, Making and Taking: “Pictures,” AIR Gallery, group show, juried by Nancy Princenthal, Brooklyn, NY.
	*My Home Town*, International Cultural Center Gallery, group show, 2nd place, photographs by Texas Tech International Student, Lubbock, TX.
	*Ink Up*, Charles Adams Gallery, Group Print Show and Workshop, Lubbock, TX.
	*Group MFA Show*, Land mark Gallery, Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX.
	*I Was Hidden from My Own Sight*, solo show, Satellite Gallery, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX.
2013	*Celebration 60th Anniversary of College of Fine Art*, group exhibition, Contemporary Museum of Art, Tehran, Iran.
	*One Foot Show*, group student, Texas Association School of Art Conference, Best of Show, juried by Wade Wilson, Loan Star College of Art, Kingwood, Houston, TX.
	*Workshop Ballet Dancing Drawing*, Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock, TX.
	*MFA Group Show*, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX.
	*International Artist*, group show, In-between Gallery, Slaton, TX.
	*Group Print Show and Workshop*, Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock, TX.
	*MFA Candidates Show*, Group show, South Plains College Fine Arts Department Gallery, Levelland, TX.
	*Group Student MFA show*, Landmark Gallery, Lubbock, TX.

2012	*Still-Life*, Group Painting, and Drawing Exhibition, Waters Space Gallery, Hot Springs, AK.
	*International MFA Student Group Show*, In Between Gallery, Slaton, TX.
	*2013 Group Show Harbinger*, land Mark Hall Gallery, Lubbock, TX.
	*Memory of Death*, Group show, Land Mark Studio Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
	*One Foot Exhibition*, Texas Association School of Art student, 3rd Place, San Antonio, TX.
	*Vision*, Group Painting Exhibition, Simorgh Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
	*Contemporary Iranian painters*, Group Exhibition, Momayez Art Gallery, Khane Honarmandan, Tehran, Iran.
2008	*Group Painting Exhibition*, Negah Group, Arya Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2007	*Group Drawing Exhibition*, Kamaleddin-e-Behzad Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2006	*Group Painting Exhibition*, Negah Group, Khaneh Honarmandan Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2005	*Group Drawing Exhibition*, Kamaleddin-e-Behzad Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2004	*Group Drawing Exhibition*, Kamaleddin-e-Behzad, Gallery, Tehran, Iran.

PRESENTATIONS IN SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS

2018	*Artist Talk, “Rah”* University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
	*Roots,* Spudnik Press gallery, Chicago, IL.
2016	*Paper Casting Demonstration*, Southern Graphic Council International Printmaking Conference, SGCI Flux: Yesterday and Tomorrow, Portland, OR.
2015	*Verbal and Pictorial Narration in Shahnameh of Shah-Tahmasb Book*, Presentation at Texas Association School of Art (TASA) Conference, Lubbock, TX.
	*The Past in the Present: Islamic Architecture and Contemporary Art by Women,* presentation at 103rd Annual Conference College of Art Association (CAA) Conference, Session of Architecture in Islamic Painting, Manhattan, NY.
2014	*Revealing and Concealing Identity through Time and Space,* presentation at the Texas Association School of Art TASA Conference, Open Session Lecture, Dallas, TX.
	*Revealing and Concealing Identity through Time and Space,* presentation at Art and Humanities Conference, Graduate school, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.

2014

Become an Image, Three Eleanores, screened at 30th Annual Conference Advancement

of Women, hosted by the Woman Studies Program at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.

Identity, presentation at 29th Annual Conference Advancement of Women,

hosted by the Woman Studies Program at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.

SELECTED HONORS

2017	Residency, Spudnik press Print, Chicago, IL.
2016	Fellowship, Spudnik press Print, Chicago, IL.
2016	Internship at Root and Culture Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2015	Awarded Research Grant for *Textual and Pictorial Narration in Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasb Book,* Texas Tech Art Museum Collections, Helen Jones Foundation, Lubbock, TX.
2015	Awarded Research Grant Don and Kay cash for *The Past in the Present: Islamic Architecture and Contemporary Art by Women,* Texas Tech Visual and Performance Art, Lubbock, TX.
2014	Winner of the Inaugural Graduate Scholarship Award at *One Foot Exhibition*, portfolio review juried by Heyd Fonteno, Texas Association School of Arts (TASA), Dallas, TX.
	Second Places Scholarship Award, “*Art and Humanities Conference*”, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
	Second Place, Photographs, *Hometown*, International Cultural Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
	One Foot Show, Group Student, Texas Association School of Art Conference, Best of Show, Juried by Wade Wilson, Loan Star College of Art, Kingwood, Houston, TX.
2012	3rd place, Best of Show, One Foot Exhibition, Texas Association School of Art student (TASA), San Antonio, TX.
2003	1st place in Drawing Competition, University of Alzahra, Tehran, IR.

CURATIAL EXPERIENCES

2019	(Upcoming event),co-curating “The Wind Will Carry Us: The Poetic, The Incidental, The Collective”, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago MCA, Chicago, IL.
2018-2019	Co-founder of Didaar (Chicago-based Iranian artists and art historians)
2018	The juried committee, Lake View East Art Festival, Chicago, IL.
2017-2018	Exhibition committee, Spudnik press Annex Gallery, Chicago, IL.

2016	Curated High school summer discovery Art Exhibition, Studio Gallery Annex, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2014-2015	Freshman Scholarships/High School Portfolio Review Committee, open house at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
2015	One-day Printmaking workshop, Texas Tech open house, Lubbock, TX
2012	Curated Group Painting Exhibition, Vision, Simorgh Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2002-2004	Founder and Director of Private Live Drawing Club, Private Studio Tehran, Iran.

TEACHING ASSISTANT

2017	*MCU Broad Museum*, Chicago,IL. Screen printing demonstration at Expo Chicago.
2016	*Spudnik Press,* Chicago, IL. Teaching Assistant in Foundation printmaking class Art Assistant in Print lab
2015-2016	*Texas Tech University,* Lubbock, TX. Teaching Assistant. Printmaking (3308) Graduate assistant in print lab
2012-2016	*Texas Tech University*, Lubbock, TX. Teaching Assistant. Drawing (1303), Advanced Figure Drawing (3323), Painting (3321) Advanced Painting (4321), Senior Painting (4322), Printmaking (3308)
2012-2016	*Texas Tech University,* Lubbock, TX. Graduate figure drawing open studio Graduate drawing lab monitor Graduate painting lab Monitor Graduate printmaking lab monitor and construction Graduate part-time Assistant in the Visual Resource Center

FEATURED ARTIST:

2018	Spudnikpress
2017	Grabadolandia Art Festival, Spudnik Press featured artist, Chicago, IL.
2016	Achilles Print Studio Gallery, Lafayette, LA.
	The Hand Magazine.
2015	Paint Pulse Magazine.
	Saatchi online Gallery, Artist feature in the collection, Relationship painting.