Biography

Born in Tehran, Iran. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Education:

  • 2019 MFA Painting and Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, CT

  • 2014 BA Painting, The University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran

Award:

  • 2025 Visual Arts Grant, Brooklyn Art Council, New York

  • 2024 Foundation For Contemporary Arts Grant, New York

  • 2019 H. Lee Hirsche Dean’s Merit Prize, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

  • 2018 SOMA Summer Fellowship, Mexico City

  • 2013 The 7th annual “New Generation of Painters in Iran” Shirin Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Residency:

  • 2026 Shangri La Museum Artist in residence, Hawaii (forthcoming)

  • 2025 NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur, Powerhouse Arts, New York

  • 2024 Here & There Collective,THAT Studio Residency, New York

  • 2020 Nars Foundation, New York

    ‍ ‍. NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, New York

  • 2018 SOMA Summer, Mexico City, Mexico

    ‍ ‍. CCAM Graduate Fellow, Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Yale University, CT

Solo Exhibition:

  • 2026 Threads of Longing, Shangri La Museum, Hawaii (forthcoming)

  • 2025 Under the Sky, Above the Sea, Visual Art Center, New Jersey

  • 2022 Under the Same Sky, 99 Scott, New York

  • 2022 Hoch Wie Nie: Imaginary Landscapes and the Creatures Who Live There, Peter Gaugy Gallery, Vienna, Austria

  • 2020An Absent View, The Border Project Space, New York

  • 2017 Suspended Mountain, Dastan Gallery, Electric Room, Tehran, Iran

Selected Group Exhibition:

  • 2025 It Must Be Nice To Fall in Love, Tempest Gallery, New York

    ‍ ‍.Summering in Cyberspace, CHARMOLI CIARMOLI, New York

    . Cat’s Cradle, Tempest Gallery, New York

  • 2024 Mend and Contain, Untitled Art Fair, Transmitter Gallery, Miami

    ‍ ‍.Who Is Weaving the Sky’s Nest, Yeo Workshop, Singapore

  • 2023 Enmeshed, Dreams of Water, Immigrant Artist Biennial, New York

    .Conjuring Flames, Arsenal Contemporary Art, New York

    . 4.5 Billion Years, Brief Histories, New York

  • 2022 Vector, Heaven Gallery, Chicago

    . Naked Lunch, Spring Break Art Show, New York

  • 2021 Our Tears are Sweet, Our Laughter Venomous, Eastern Art Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University

    . A Discourse of Accord, Transmitter Gallery, New York

    ‍ ‍.The Invincible Beings, FPC Gallery, New York

  • 2020 Memories, tales, and folk songs, High Line Nine Gallery, New York

    ‍ ‍.In/Between, The Ford Foundation Gallery, New York

  • 2019Le Gymnasium Sacre, ArtDubai, Dastan Gallery, Dubai, UAE

    ‍ ‍.Subversive Stitch, WhiteBox, New York

  • 2018Words Cannot Express, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT

    ‍ ‍. Paperweight biennale, Mexico City, Mexico

  • 2017You Can Get In And Not Do Anything, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT

  • 2016Agog, Dastan Gallery, Tehran, Iran

  • 2013 The 7th annual “New Generation of Painters in Iran” Ahvaz Contemporary Art Museum, Iran

              . The 7th annual “New Generation of Painters in Iran” Shirin Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Artist Talk & Panel:

  • 2026 Speaker The Sky That Carried Me from Peak to Sea, University of Hawaii at Manoa

  • 2025 Panelist Cultural Development Fund (CDF), NYC Department of Cultural Affairs 

    . Speaker Art in Dialogue, Conversations with Today’s Artists, Bidar School, Tehran, Iran

    . Speaker Life After Yale Panel, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

    . Panelist BAF MultidisciplinaryPanel, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York

  • 2024 Panelist Performing Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York

  • 2023 Speaker Enmeshed, Dreams of Water, Immigrant Artist Biennial, New York

  • 2021Speaker Criticism & Value, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

  • 2020 Speaker In Between the Shadows of the Sky, Space without Walls, Gent, Belgium

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