As an artist, my work is a bridge between the world I carry within and the life I continue to shape. I explore memory, lived experience, and transformation through painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, and layered mixed-media processes, bringing together fragments of the body, nature, textiles, pattern, and light.

My work is rooted in the relationship between personal memory and the traces of place, history, and inheritance. Through repetition, layering, erasure, and re-emergence, I explore how identity continues to take shape over time.

I invite viewers to look slowly and closely to move beyond the first impression and discover what may be held beneath the surface. The paintings are not fixed records of the past, but evolving spaces where memory and contemporary life meet, and where fragments become something new.

Education Background:

2016-2018: MFA in Visual Art; Columbus College of Art & Design – Columbus, OH
2003-2006: M.A.in Painting; University of Art- Tehran-Iran.
1998-2003: B.A. in Painting; University of Art- Tehran-Iran.
1995-1999: B.A. Diploma in Art; Plastic Art School- Tehran-Iran.

Honors & Awards:

• Nominee, Teaching Excellence Award, Columbus College of Art & Design, 2025
• Selected Artist, Windgate Artist-in-Residence, Arkansas Tech University, August 2025
• Faculty Development & Outreach Committee Grant, GCAC, 2025
• Nominee, Teaching Excellence Award, Columbus College of Art & Design, 2024
• Individual Artist Grant, Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC), 2022 & 2023
• First Place, Fall Juried Exhibition, Ohio Art League, 2018

Publications, Artist Talks, and Presentations:

• Artist Talk, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2026
• Artist Talk, Arkansas Tech University, AR, 2025
• Artist Talk, Sumac Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2024
• Presenter: “The Influence of Persian Art on Contemporary Painting,” Arkansas Tech University,
2025
• Workshop Leader: “Experimental Printing Techniques,” Arkansas Tech University, 2025
• Conference Paper: “Study in TRANS-AVANT GARDE Movement (Neo Expressionism in Italy),” International Symposium on Contemporary Art — 2006

Workshops & Educational Programming:

• Transfer Techniques and Multimedia Methods: An introduction to image transfer, layering strategies,
and experimental material approaches.
• Gelli Plate & Monoprint on Layered Surfaces: Exploring printmaking textures and compositional
depth through layered mixed-media processes.
• Painting as Personal Voice & Collaborative Mural Practice: A workshop examining how individual
expression can evolve into collective visual storytelling.

Residencies:

• Windgate Artist-in-Residence, Arkansas Tech University – August-December 2025
• Istanbul- Turkey art residency, June-June 2024

Art Auctions & Benefit Engagements:

• Columbus Art4Life Auction, Artwork selected for auction — Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2025
• Wildgoose Gallery Auction, Artwork selected for auction — Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2019

Memberships & Affiliations:

• Permanent Member of Society of Iranian Painters (SIP)
• Member, Long Island City Studio Collective, New York, NY (2023–Present)
www.licstudiocollective.com