Born and raised in Tehran, I am a Print Media MFA candidate at Concordia University and hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University. I am currently based in Montreal, Quebec. My practice explores how identity and community are shaped, fragmented, and reassembled through a diasporic lens, engaging with questions of translation across cultural and geographic contexts.
Much of my studio practice centers on tea as both a material and conceptual framework. Drawing from the cultural significance of tea in Iranian traditions of gathering, I work with used tea bags to create architectural forms and installations that carry traces of shared conversations and memory. Language also plays a central role in my work, particularly through Farsi calligraphy and its movement between legibility and abstraction.
Collaboration is integral to my process, emerging through shared storytelling, material exchanges, and research into Persian manuscripts and lithographic traditions. Across my practice, I aim to create spaces that invite collective reflection on belonging, translation, and otherness.
Education:
2024-current, MFA Candidate in Print Media, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2018-2022. Graduated with BFA in Visual Arts, Deans' Honour Roll, York University, Toronto, ON
Duo exhibitions:
2022. Connections, Special Projects Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022. This Body is Not a Home, Special Projects Gallery, Toronto, ON
Group exhibitions:
2025, Maureen X, Organized by MFA student association, Fonderie Darling, Montreal, QC, Group Show
2025, Marks and Messages II, Concordia MFA Printmedia explorations, Atelier Alain Piroir, Montreal, QC, Group show
2025, Ignition, Leonard and Ellen Bina Gallery, Concordia, Montreal, QC
2022. Gender and the lens II, Organized by Feminist Photography Network, Gales Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022. Amalgamation, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON
2023. Tea Leaves, Project Space, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB
Curatorial project:
2022. Amalgamation, Gallery 1313 Toronto, ON
Selected awards:
2021. AGYU Spotlight Award
2021. People's choice Award at York University's annual Open House
2021. Dan Olsen Print Award
2021. York University Continuing student scholarship
2022. VAAH Print Honorarium Award