Education
2015 MFA in New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2013 Multimedia Art Certificate, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA
2006 MA in Graphic design, Azad University, Tehran, Iran
1998 BA in Photography, Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Professional Experience
2014-present Documentarian, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Co-Curator, Rite of Passage, ICCNC Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014-2015 Documentarian and Photographer, Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013-present Board of Director at Ziya Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2012-present Board Member of WEAD, Women Eco Artists Dialog, Oakland,CA
2005-present Member, “Open 5” Group, Environmental Artists, Tehran, Iran
Teaching Experience
2015-present Adjunct Faculty at Peralta Community College, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA
2017-Fall Faculty Public Education Program, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2015-Fall Faculty Public Education Program, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2014-2015 Teaching Assistant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2011-2013 Teaching Assistant, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA
2004-2006 Photography Professor, Azad Islamic University, Tehran, Iran
Solo/two person Exhibitions
2018 Colonial Walk, Feast Arts Center, Tacoma, WA
2017 Colonial Walk(21h:9’:3”), Media Space, Avenue 12 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Far From Home/Between Heaven and Earth, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
2014 Cold Medium: A Funeral for Nancy Holt, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 A Journey to a Mysterious Truth, Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, CA
2010 Impressions, Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, CO
2008 A Way of Living, Atbin Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Awards, Honors, Residencies
2018 Residency Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM (Forthcoming)
2017-2018 Affiliate Program at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2017 I-Park Foundation Artists in Residence Program, East Haddam, CT
Finalist Tosa Award, San Francisco, CA
2016 Djerassi Residence Artists Program, Woodside, CA
ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Chicago, IL
Affiliate Program at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Honorable Mention, International Digital AVA Awards
2015 Photography Award, The Earth Speaks, ARTSPACE Gallery, Stroudsburg Pennsylvania
The Headlands Graduate Fellowship Alternate Award, Sausalito ,CA
Winer, The Anne Bremer Memorial Library’s Artists’ Book Contest, The Atholl McBean Gallery, San francisco, CA
2014 Nominee, Fifth Annual Contemporary Art/Persbook, Collaboration with Open 5 Group, Tehran, Iran
Rising Leader Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2013 First Prize group project, P.A.H Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
MFA Fellowship in New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2012 Honorable Mention, 8th Annual CCC Student Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Finalist, Eco Art Awards, Collaboration with Open 5 Groups, Online Contest
2007 Honorable Mention, Vision Competition, Niyavaran Museum Palace, Blue Hall, Tehran, Iran
Winner of the Group Prize, Flight & Persistence Festival, Saba Cultural and Artistic Institute, Collaboration
with Open 5 Group, Tehran, Iran
Winner of the First Group Prize, Snowy Town Festival with Open 5 Group, Charmahal & Bakhtiyari, Iran
Commissions
2017 Transform Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Collaboration with Larry Arrington & Sandra
Lawson-Ndu, San francisco, CA
2016 The Ocean After Nature, Yerba buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Performances
2017 100 Days Action, Side by Side, Offsite, Collaboration with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, San Francisco, CA
2015 4×40 Performances, Southern Exposure, CA
You Had to Be There, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
I have nothing to Say, But I’m Saying It, Diego Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Left-Right, Collaboration with Takako Matoba, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Everyone Is Hypnotized, ProArt Gallery, Oakland, CA
Homecoming, ACRE gallery, Curated by Sabrina Greig, Chicago, IL
2016 Common Dilemmas, Ostrich Feather Wedding Dress Project, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
Enchantment, Peter Strauss Ranch, Agoura Hills, CA
Breathing Art, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Gongju National Museum, Geumgang, South Korea
Eco-Avangard, Kunstaleh Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Night Light, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
The Culture of Peace Biennale International Art Project, Iran and Turkey
Kunsthaus Tacheles, SAFEhouse Arts, San Francisco, CA
Smaller Footprints, Women Eco Artists Dialog Memebers’ Annual Exhibition, MOAH, Museum of Art and History,
Lancaster, CA
2015 In die Weite, BIK Gallery 149, Bremerhaven, Germany
American Gun Show, Works, San Jose, CA
Selected Video Artists, exhibition, LACDA, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
Perception, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Edge Effects, MFA Show, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Nietzsche Was A Man, Pori Art Museum, Finland
2014 Expulsion, Asterisk Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hz Gate, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
The Site a Live, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
California Dreamin, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA
Freedom and Enlightenment, Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California, Oakland, CA
Dreamworks, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Nietzsche Was a Man, the Museo Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
Earth and Time, Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran
Video Artist, Cheongju, South Korea
The Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens Exhibit, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2012 Works on Water, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA
Nature Is Breathing, YATOO International Project 2012, Rumania
Beyond Limited Spaces, Iranian Nature Artist Exhibition, Geumgang, South Korea
Beyond Landscape, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA
2011 The Altered Landscape, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Iranian Environmental Artists’ Selected Works, Museum of Contemporary Art, Isfahan, Iran
2010 Environmental Art in Iran, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2009 Global Warnings Wake Up to Urgent, June Steingart Gallery at Laney College, Oakland, CA
2008 Human, Baran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
New Language, New Art, Laleh Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2007 7 Women 7 Vision, Cafe Mah-e-Mehr, Tehran, Iran.
Collaborations
2014 BeLong, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Earth and Time, Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran, Collaboration with Open 5 Group
Root, Fifth Annual Contemporary Art/Persbook, Collaboration with Open 5 Group, Elahe Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 Border lines, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
URBAN RANCH PROJECT, Collaboration with Open5 Group, A Virtual gallery on Facebook
2012 The 2nd YATOO International Project Exhibition, Nature Is Breathing, Collaboration with Open5 Group,
Wind of Persia, Collaboration with Open5 group, Arko Center, Seoul, South Korea
2011 Iranian Environmental Artists’ Selected Works, Collaboration with Open 5 Group, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Isfahan, Iran
Autama2011 Video art festival,Collaboration with Open5 Group, France
Without Border, the 1st Annual of Iranian Contemporary Art Contest Persbook, Collaboration with Open5 Group, Sin
Gallery, Tehran, Iran
International Video Art Festival 4th Edition Video Holica ,collaboration with Open5 Group, Varna, Bulgaria
The 1st Recycle art festival, Collaboration with Open5 Group, Qazvin, Iran.
2010 Fresh Dig Big Daddy Community Garden, Collaboration with Open5 Group, Emeryville, CA
Persbook, First Annual Iranian Contemporary Art Contest, Collaboration with Open 5 Group, Sin Gallery, Tehran, Iran
The Sky Is Mine, The 6th National Sculpture Biennial of Tehran, Collaboration with Open5 Group, Niavaran Cultural and
Historical Complex, Tehran, Iran.
2009 New Art Festival FajrAfarinan, Saba Cultural and Artistic Institute, Collaboration with Open 5 Group, Tehran, Iran
Competitions & Festivals
2015-2014 Art in Nature Festival, the Nature of Art, Redwood Regional Park, Oakland, CA
2013 Emerging Artists, University Art Gallery, Hayward, CA
2012 The 1st Video Artist Festival, Blue Room Gallery, Isfahan, Iran
2010 Persbook, First Annual Iranian Contemporary Art Contest, Sin Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2009 Golden Roads Competition, Belgium
The Youth Competition on Architecture, Settlement and Urban Identity in the Persian Gulf Region, University of
Westminster, London, UK
First Urban Women Festival, Tehran, Iran
2008 The First International Photography Biennale of the Islamic World, Saba Cultural and Artistic Institute, Tehran, Iran
2007 The National- Religious Rituals for Joy & Happiness, 4th Nationwide Photo Competition, The City Photography
Museum, Tehran, Iran
My Green World, Tehran, Tarahan Azad Gallery, Iran
Canadian Association Photographic Art Members, Museum of Contemporary Art, Isfahan, Iran
Koodak & Manaviyat, Felestin Museum, Tehran, Iran
Workshops & Festivals & Artist Talk
2018 (De) Colonial Walk, UW Bothell School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, WA
2016 Investigating of Self, Artist Talk, School of Art and Art History at San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2016 Nomadic Lands, Ephemeral Bodies: Iranian Land Art, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2015 Water Wheel, Online Exhibition and Forum, curated by Atefeh Khas
2014 Artist Talk, Making Connections, Bay-Delta Science Conference, Sacramento, CA
2013 A Journey to a Mysterious Truth, Artist Talk,Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, CA
2012 Workshop, International Museum of Women, Muslim Women’s Arts & Voices, San Francisco, CA
2011-2012 Workshop, Bay Area International Children’s Film Festival, Chabot Space & Science Center, Oakland, CA
2011 Environmental Art in Iran, Lecture, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2010 Workshop, Art and Nature Workshop, Arboretum Arts Festival, University of California Davis, Davis, CA
Artist Talk, Survey of Environmental Art in Iran, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Artist Talk, Survey of Environmental Art in Iran, University of Arizona, Albuquerque, NM