BIOGRAPHY
I was born on June 26th 1986 in Tehran, Iran. Started to learn figurative drawing and printmaking professionally under supervision of Masters such as Nazanin Afshar, Mehrdad Khataei and Mehdi Darvishi. Immediately after getting into the concept of composition in painting, I started experimenting with photography. I started my professional career in photography by taking photographs of Tehran Cultural Orchestra performance conducted by Nader Mashayekhi at the 18th Kuwait International Music Festival.
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Education:
2014 Master of Art Research, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran
2008 Bachelor of English Translation, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
2002 Diploma in Mathematics and Physics, Fereshtegan High School, Tehran, Iran
Solo Exhibitions:
2020 Solo Print Exhibition Entitled “Separation from The Moon”, Crimson corners, Saye Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2020 Solo Photo Exhibition Entitled “Manifestation of A Dream Transformed”, Saye Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2019 Solo Photo Exhibition Entitled “Sound of Silence”, Saye Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2017 Two Person Painting Exhibition with Ms Niloufar Sasani Entitled “Duet”, Art Gallery 26, Tehran, Iran
2016 Solo Photo Exhibition Entitled “Hidden Eden”, Theme Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 Solo Painting Exhibition, Shalman Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Group Exhibitions & Art fair Participations:
2023 International Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art Entitled “Duality of The Whole”, Medina Art Gallery, Rome, Italy
2022 International Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art Entitled “Brain Cake”, M.A.D.S. International Mixed Reality Art Gallery, Gaudi Room, La Pedrera, Barcelona, Spain
2022 International Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art Entitled “Aderno Cromo for Dinner”, M.A.D.S. International Mixed Reality Art Gallery, Milan & Fuerteventura Islas Canarias, Italy & Spain
2022 International Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art Entitled “Pretty Perv”, M.A.D.S. International Mixed Reality Art Gallery, Milan & Fuerteventura Islas Canarias, Italy & Spain
2022 Participated in wopart The 7th Edition International Art Fair Devoted to works on paper, 23-25 September, Saye Art Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
2022 Participated in Armenia Art Fair The 3rd Edition, Yerevan, Armenia
2022 International Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art Entitled “F**K U”, M.A.D.S. International Mixed Reality Art Gallery, Milan & Fuerteventura Islas Canarias, Italy & Spain
2021Participated in Istanbul Art and Antique Art Fair as Nidra Art Gallery Artist, Istanbul, Turkey
2021Participated in the Fifth Vernice Art Fair and the Euro Expo Art project, Nidra Art Gallery, Forli, Italy
2021Participated in Bodrum Art and Antique Art Fair, Nidra Art Gallery, Bodrum, Turkey
2021Participated in the fifth annual MonoVisions Black and White Photography Magazine Competition, Winning Entry in Fine Art Category “Hidden Eden” series, London, UK
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2021 Participated in” Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize” Call, London, UK
2021 Online display of Two paintings on Istanbul Art and Antique Art Fair website, Nidra Art Gallery, February 15 to March 15
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2021 International Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art Entitled “Love My Body”, M.A.D.S. International Mixed Reality Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
2020 International Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art Entitled “Fable”, M.A.D.S. International Mixed Reality Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
2020 International Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art Entitled “Mater “, M.A.D.S. International Mixed Reality Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
2020 Group Exhibition of Visual Arts Entitled “The Color of Peace”, Ghasr Museum Garden, Tehran, Iran
2020 Group Exhibition of Painting, Photo and Sculpture Entitled “Chaos”, Saye Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2020 The Second Exhibition of Carbafoo Postcards, Saye Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2020 Participate in Managart Virtual Show No. 1 Entitled “Art_in_Quarantine”
2019 Participated in fig Bilbao the 8th Edition International Print & Works on Paper Art Festival, 14-17 November, Saye Art Gallery, Bilbao, Spain
2019 Group Printmaking Exhibition, Theme Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2019 Group Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture Entitled “Contemporary Human”, Negar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2019 Group Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture Entitled “Contemporary Human”, Idea Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2019 Volunteered to participate in Virtual Call for Sympathy by Carbafoo for the Benefit of Flooded People of Iran
2019 Call for The Second Carbafoo Prize (Postcard), Abad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018 Call for The Second Carbafoo Prize (Postcard), Hoomehr Art Gallery, Kerman, Iran
2018 Call for The Second Carbafoo Prize (Postcard), Aban Art Gallery, Shiraz, Iran
2018 Call for The Second Carbafoo Prize (Postcard), Didar Art Gallery, Isfahan, Iran
2018 Group Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture Entitled “The Inside”, Shalman Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018 Group Exhibition of Painting, Photo & Sculpture, White Line Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018 Group Exhibition of Visual Arts Entitled “Creation”, Contemporary Art Museum of Palestine, Tehran, Iran
2018 Group Exhibition of Visual Arts Entitled “Varuna”, Ehsan Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018 Group Exhibition of Visual Arts Entitled “Our Vision”, Ehsan Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018 Group Exhibition of Visual Arts Entitled “Image in Image”, Contemporary Art Museum of Palestine, Tehran, Iran
2018 3rd Annual “White Frames” Photographic Charity Exhibition, Theme Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2017 Group Exhibition of Visual Arts by Contemporary Artists, Ayrik Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2017 1st Photo Annual “From Side walk”, Ehsan Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2017 2nd Annual “White Frames” Photographic Charity Exhibition, Theme Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 The First Exhibition of Azerbaijan Painters, Shalman Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Art Activities, Books and Awards:
2021 Winner of the Fine Art Honorable Mention of the 5th Annual MonoVisions Black and White Photography Magazine Competition, Winning Entry “Hidden Eden” Collection, London, UK
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2020 Introduced in the book “A selection of Carbafoo artists and activities, June 2018 to June 2020” by Sadegh Farhadian and Mahsa Najafi, Savalan Igidleri Publication, First Edition: Spring 2020
2019 Accepted in the call for Printmaking at theme Gallery juried by Shokoofeh Fallah & Bahareh Bahrami
2018 Accepted in the call for the second Carbafoo award (postcard), selected by the jury and by the galleries
2018 Painter of the painting used in designing the stage of the theater “Rendezvous” directed by Vahid Montazeri performed in Molavi Small Hall, 8 pm, from August 30 to September 14, Tehran, Iran
2017 3rd Nominee & 3rd Prize, 1st Photo Annual, “From Side walk” Exhibition & Contest, Ehsan Art Gallery, Iran
2015 Production Assistant & Simultaneous Interpreter for “Generation Tehran”, Directed by Sam Asaert, A Belgian-Iranian Documentary Project
2015 Accepted in the first stage arbitration, first biennial of today’s Painters Quarterly Magazine
2015 Photographer of the event “Art against Violence and Extremism”, Chaharsoo Campus, Tehran, Iran
2015 Photographer of Tehran Cultural Orchestra conducted by Nader Mashayekhi at the 18th Kuwait International Music Festival, Kuwait
2015 Photographer of Tehran Cultural Orchestra conducted by Nader Mashayekhi at the memorial of artists who passed away in 2014 Entitled “Us and the Future”, Shams Hall, Tehran, Iran
2014 Photographer of the audio event “Radical Tehran 3” founded by Mehdi Behboudi, Milad Tower Conference Center, Tehran, Iran
2013 Photographer of “Abandoned” Music piece by Mehdi Behboudi at Performance and Ritual Arts Festival, City Theater of Tehran, Chaharsoo Hall, Tehran, Iran
2013 Photographer of the audio event “Radical Tehran 1” founded by Mehdi Behboudi Milad Tower Conference Center, Tehran, Iran
STATEMENT
In the state of sorrow, the external reality in the mind of the empiricist becomes a malignant mass that is split under the influence of the displacement of the dream elements. These cracks and wounds from the displacement of the dream layers will have an impact on the individual’s privacy and the environment around him. Filters are applied to the layers of the optic nerve, and the proliferation manifests itself in mental black holes, such as cancer cells. So that the visible nature will never reveal the previous image in the mind of the experimenter. Consequence of the loss and the resulting grief is the only manifestation of a kind of melancholy acceptance in the individual. By accepting his current state of mind, which is the result of a struggle with the denial of the gradual destruction of the dream and, ultimately, the death of his unrealistic dream and visual illusion, he finds temporary relief. This path is repeated over and over again with the collapse of new compensatory dreams until the mental gateway to processing and falsifying one’s dreams is blocked by a defense mechanism from within. The person is now barren and in the process of healing the grief of this crisis. The transformed dream is the most bitter nightmare of a person, because the mind, unintentionally and automatically, in response to the experience of chronic and recurring pain, has castrated the passive insight of the dreamer. Body and mind will be in eternal hatred. The beginning of this circle is the moment of the child’s mechanical birth and crying over the destruction of the early nest. Transformed dream is a stage that may protect a person in some people before the physical death of the mind arrives. The transformed dream is a state of 100% acceptance of the nerves sensitive to the stimulus of pain and the stage of entering life in the nightmare of the ornament.
