My Story
My artwork is my purpose, my driving force. It's the reason I get up every day and do what I do. Most importantly, it keeps pushing me to achieve bigger and better things with each new challenge. I believe everyone was born with a story and throughout the life their stories might be changed! My story started with my immigration. Being far away from family and friends got me struggled with many different challenges. Since then, storytelling through illustration has become an integral part of my life, and it helped me to deal with the challenges of daily life, both emotionally and financially.
- EDUCATION
College of Art and Architecture, Azad Tehran Markaz 2014-2016 Master of Art in Illustration (MA)
Art University of Isfahan (AUI) 2007-2012 Bachelor of Art in Graphic Design (BA)
- EXHIBITIONS
VCT (Vancouver Civic Theater) Exhibition, Visual Arts Program
2024
• Children’s Graphic Novel Writing + Illustration Festival, Art
market, Oct 28,29
• Group exhibition “Neither Here Nor There” Port Coquitlam art
gallery, Oct 2023
• Competition winner, Professional Illustration Category,
International Art&Design Competition, Accademia Riaci, Italy
(2023)
• VOAF 2022, selected for one year touring art exhibition,
Vancouver (2022-2023)
• Contest selected “2017 Embracing Our Differences
International Art Exhibit”, 14th Annual Juried Exhibit. Sarasota,
FL, USA (2017)
• Group Exhibition, Open Studio Night, SCAD, Atlanta, GA, USA
(2018)
• Group exhibition, Persian Cultural Center (PCC), Atlanta, GA,
USA (2017)
WORKS EXPERIENCE
- “Moments Musicaux with Marchena&Momo” Musical picture
book illustrator, Self-Published, NYC, 2023
- Skyky Publishing group, Design, and illustration of 6 books
(Toronto, Canada) (2019-present)
- Art Teacher, After School Program, Vancouver, Canada, 2024
Kids art instructor (painting, clay art and craft), ISFAHAN, IRN, 2022
- Persian Cultural Center (PCC), Children’s Art Instructor and
cultural event coordinator (Atlanta, USA) (2016-2017)
- EMM. Creative Arts Co., Design, and execution of mallet box for
Vancouver Polo Festival (Vancouver, Canada) (2022)
- “Fumee, Amour, Luxe” Magazine, Freelance magazine
Illustrator (Paris, France) (2019)
- Pubforkids, Children’s postal cards illustrator and storyteller
(Atlanta, USA) (2018)
- B&B (BABY&BEAR), and FLUUFY RABBIT, Logo designer and
fashion illustrator (2019-2020)
- PUBLISHED
- Moments Musicaux with Marchena and Momo, self published, 2023
- The Grass Grew on the Head of Elephant, Skyky publishing, 2023
- The Rooster's Journey to Life, Skyky publishing, 2022
- The Wishing Fruit, Skyky Publishing, 2022
- “Bread Bread” , Skyky publishing, Toronto, 2021
- “Rock Rock Tree” , Skyky publishing,Toronto, 2020
- Cover Magazine Illustration, "Fumée, amour, luxe" , vol. Summer, issue 3, 2019 - “Distance”, The 14th Annual Exhibit Celebrating Diversity Catalogue, April. 2017
- “Fear of Mom”, Artist Portfolio Magazine, Image and Imagination Section, Issue 26, 2016
- “Yellow”3th Annual Book of Graphic, Baban Publications, Feb. 2016
-“Logo Design” 7th Annual Book of Graphic Student, Rasm Publications,Jun. 2010
-“Illustration of Haft-Peykar story by Nizami Ganjavi” Visual Art Book of 2nd Annual Exhibition of AUI, Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Arts, May 2012
Feel free to come over to my studio
at City Centre Artist Lodge
City Centre Artist Lodge
2111 Main St, Vancouver, BC V5T 3C6
Unit # 130
Email:
[email protected]