EDUCATION
2020-2022 | MFA in Studio Art | California Institutes Of The Arts
2011 - 2015 | BFA in Studio Art | University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2004 - 2009 | Bachelor of Arts | Cultural Heritage University, Tehran, Iran
Conservation & Preservation of Historical Places
EXHIBITIONS & CREATIONS
Group Shows
2021 — Calarts MFA Group Show “Cross Weird” — Santa Clarita, CA
2021 — Le Festival Oodaaq “My Body for your Loneliness”— Rennes, France — Virtual Exhibition
2021 — Asian Art Museum “After Hope: Videos of Resistance” — San Francisco, CA
2021 — Project 13 “Walking” — Virtual Exhibition
2021 — Project 13 “When People Decide to End Themselves” — Virtual Exhibition
2021 — Festival International d'art Vidéo de Casablanca 26th Edition “My Body for your Loneliness”— Casablanca, Morocco —
Virtual Exhibition
2020 — Mills College of Art “Home/Body” — Oakland, CA
2020 — Root Division Gallery “Reflection on Exile” — San Francisco, CA
2019 — ArtEgg Studios “Second Friday” — New Orleans, LA
2019 — Aggregate Space Gallery “Space Between Space” — Oakland, CA
2019 — Artist Television Access “In Honor Of…” — San Francisco, CA
2015 — Visual Art Center “Senior Seminar 2015 Exhibition” — Austin, TX
2015 — W Hotel “Senior Exhibition”— Austin, TX
PERFORMANCE ART
2019 — Participatory performance “White Wednesdays” at Clarion Alley Project — San Francisco, CA
2019 — Stage performance “Hijab” at Artist Television Access— San Francisco, CA
2015 — Stage performance “Hijab” at Visual Art Center— Austin, TX
Bibliography
2021 — KQED, At Asian Art Museum, ‘After Hope’ Comes Action (and an Eclectic Mix of Video Art)
2021 — Clicking through Nostalgia — Exhibition Review: “When People Decide to End Themselves” By Roja Najafi, Ph.D. Art Historian and Curator — Medium
2019 — Radio Pooya, Interview, “In Honor of…”
2019 — BBC News, Interview, “In Honor of…”
2015 — Cole Bubenik, Reviews: The 2015 UT Senior Art Exhibition, UP & UP
2015 — Seth Orion Schwaiger, Up + Up: 2015 Senior Art Exhibition
Related Experience
2021 — Teaching assistant at California Institute of The Arts
2021 — Founder of Project13 Virtual Exhibition Series alongside of four female Iranian artists
2019 — Publicity Assistant at Iranian Diaspora, Once at Present Exhibition, Curated by Taraneh Hemami, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2018 — Docent at art brief iv Exhibition, Curated by Advocartsy, SOMArt Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2018 — Curator Assistant at Amphibology Exhibition curated by Roya Khadjavi Project, New York, NY
2016 — Contemporary Austin Museum, Photographer, Mark Mothersbaugh opening exhibition and book-signing event, Austin, TX
2016 — Lifetouch Photography, Austin, TX
2015 — Contemporary Austin Museum, Videographer, Austin, TX
2013 — Blanton Museum, Volunteer, Austin, TX
2013 — Mexic Arte, Teaching Assistant, Austin, TX
ARTIST TALK
2021 — Interrobang at California Institute of The Arts
2021 — Artist talk at Crit Society, Virtual artist talk series
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2021 — Lillian Disney Scholarship
2015 — New York Seminar, New York, NY
2014 — The Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists' Residency, Saugatuck, Michigan
2009 — Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System, Shushtar, Iran
2008 — Ood Lajan historic city, Cultural Heritage Dept, Tehran, Iran
2007 — Parse (Pasargad) historical city, Cultural Heritage Dept, Shiraz, Iran