SOHEILA AZADI, MFA
Practicing Artist, Writer, and Educator
Portland, OR, U.S.A
[email protected] | www.soheilaazadi.com
EDUCATION
2015
MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
2012
BFA Cum Laude, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA (Minor: Art History)
2001
AA, Azad University of Najafabad, Esfahan, Iran
EMPLOYMENT
2024-Current
Director of Programs, Greater New Hope Charities
2021-2024
Program's Director, Portland Refugee Support Group
2020-2021
Adjunct Faculty, Portland State University, OR
2017-2019
Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2015-2016
Lecturer, Oakton Community College, IL
2016
Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2016
Artist Guide/Curator, Teen Creative Agency, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, IL
2013-2014
Graduate Assistant: Technical Support, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
2004-2009
Substitute Teacher, Michigan State University Child Development Center, Lansing, MI
1999
Art Teacher, Fajr Preschool, Esfahan, Iran
COLLEGE LEVEL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020Politics of Storytelling
Drawing inspiration from the third wave feminism, this course touches upon the importance of personal narrative as a way to build history. In this course students will learn how to investigate, contextualize, and narrate their personal narratives using different media such as video, performance, sculpture, etc. This class offers a variety of ways of thinking through making by learning about the history of storytelling, studying art works as well as reading scholarly articles that deal with “Politics of Storytelling”.
Portland State University, OR
2019
Core Studio Practice Intensive I and II
Core Studio is a fast-paced, yearlong sequence of courses that introduces students to both disciplinary and interdisciplinary art and design practices. These team-taught classes explore the materials and techniques of surface, space, and time (2D, 3D, and 4D), as well as the connections and interplay of these areas. Core Studio integrates the formal with the conceptual, traditional with the contemporary, and makes visible a variety of approaches in current cultural production in order to foster the development of students’ emerging practices as makers and thinkers.
School of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2018
Where is the friend’s home? –Designed and Developed by Soheila Azadi
What is home? Where do we belong? What constitutes the idea of a “home”? Students in this class explore different ways to investigate, document, contextualize, and portray their personal memories of “home”. Framing our personal memories within the Feminist theory, we understand that the personal is political and therefore has global implications. “Home” and memories attached to it, is defined differently based on people’s sociopolitical and geopolitical conditions. In this class, students will learn diverse ways of making and thinking through what they define as “home” and memories and stories related to it in relation to the current political climate.
School of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2017
Research Studio I
Research Studio I, explores the themes, practices, and contexts of cultural inquiry undertaken by artists. Students experience a variety of research methodologies, both conventional and alternative, utilizing collections and archives in the School and its extended communities in response to studio- based project assignments.
School of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2017
A Thousand and One Night Stories- Designed and Developed by Soheila Azadi
Course begins to investigate personal experiences as a starting point to create visual art. Drawing from second-wave feminism, it becomes clear that there is a close engagement between private experience and the social and political structures that shape our world. Through this class, students will address different ways to investigate, document, contextualize, and share their personal stories and introduce diverse ways of making and thinking through these material investigations.
School of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2016
Women and Creativity
Course explores selected creative works done by women. Content includes activism, literature, art, music, film, and philosophy; also explores women creativity as manifested through shaping of community and domestic institutions, and through domestic arts.
Oakton Community College, IL
2015
Senior Projects Critiques
Critique/discussion for advanced art majors, Individual frequent studio visits with senior students to help them develop their practice, group critiques to help students develop an idea for their thesis show.
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2014
Topics in Video
An intermediate video production course in theory
and practice. Assignments, screenings, discussions, and reading related to video art as well as technical skills needed for pre-production, production, and post-production. Primary focus of this work was to use photo as a tool to make videos.
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2014
Artist Mentor, Arts of Life, Chicago, IL
2014
Workshop on Performance Art and Sculpture, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2013
Workshop on After Effects, Adobe Premier. University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2013
Weekly workshops on different Cameras, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS
2020-2021
Artist-in-residence at Portland State University, Portland, OR
2020-2021
Artist-in-residence at the Dr Martin Luther King Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA) in Portland, Oregon.
2015-2017
Artist-in-residence, HATCH Projects, Chicago Artist Coalition, IL
2015
Artist-in-residence, Institute Fur Alles Mogliche, Berlin, Germany
2015
Provost Diess Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2014-2015
Dean’s Scholar Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2014
Propeller Fund (Tracer’s Club), Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2014
Travel Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2013-2014
Board Of Trustees, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2012
Magna Cum Laude, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, PA
2010-2012
Dean’s List Recipient, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, PA
2007-2009
Dean’s List Recipient, Lansing Community College, MI
PRESS
2018
“Talking Art”, The Culture of Practice& The Practice of Culture in MFA Education, Gary Alan Fine, The University of Chicago Press
2018
Interview, Asian American Art Oral History Project, DePaul University
2018
“Artist gives voice to Muslim women through Palos Hills art exhibition”, Chicago Tribune, Daily Southtown
2017
Interview, Cultural Reproducers
2016
“A New Exhibition Explores the Social Critique of Funny Art”, The Creator Project
2015
“Oppression Inspires Art in New Exhibition”, The Colombia Chronicle, Arts & Culture
2015
“Stories From Inside”, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2014
“Climate of Fear”, The Present Tense, Family
2014
“The Pairing” Espand, Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival
2014
“Is Feminism A Dirty Word?” practically speaking; a radio Interview- WBEZ 91.5 Chicago - Vocallo
2014
“Five X Five: Dance and Performance”, Chicago Artist Resources”, Chicago, IL
2012
“Boro Messenger”, online news of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, PA
2012
Student to Exhibit Performance Art Piece in Bruce Gallery, “The Spectator”, Newspaper of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, PA
2012
Animation Student Adapts to Postponing of Performance Piece, “The Spectator”, Newspaper of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, PA
PUBLICATIONS
2020
Empathy, (THE) OLD FUTURE'S ALMANAC, FlatLand
2017
Hold that Space for me, Chicago Artist Writers
2017
Feminist Advice From the City of Broad Shoulders
2016
Division (series of five short stories), Sixty Inches From Center
ACTIVITIES
2021
Presenter, Assembly Arts and Social Practice Conference, Portland, OR
2021
Exhibition Committee, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2021
Presenter, “Gendered Spaces”, SX Art & Agency Symposium, PA
2021
Artist Talk, Dr Martin Luther King Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA), Portland, OR
2019
Artist Talk, Chehalem Cultural Center, Newburg, OR
2018
Artist Talk, Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Morain Valley College, Palos Hills, IL
2017
Panelist, What is your Feminist Agenda?, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2017
Artist Talk, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2016
(Curator), In the Here and the There, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2016
(Presenter), Creating Justice Symposium, Oakton Community College, IL
2016
Artist talk, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2015
Panelist, Considering the Radical Handmade; Crafting Traditions and Feminism), Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
2015
Artist talk, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Germany
2015
Panelist, Feminism Craft and Intellectual Discourse, New York University, Florence, Italy
2015
Feminist Parking Lot with Tracers, Florence, New York University, Florence, Italy
2015
Artist talk, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2015
Feminist Parking lot by Tracer’s Feminist Club, MCA, Chicago, IL
2014
Guest Artist Critique, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL (BFA class)
2014
Presenter, Mutual Interpretation, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2014
Artist Talk, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2014
Festival, The Society for Arts, Chicago, IL
2014
Conversation on Craft and Feminism, Feminist Parking Lot: considering the radical handmade, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2013
Panelist, Feminism and Race, Three walls gallery, Chicago, IL
2012
48-Hour Film Competition, Pittsburg, PA
SOLO EXHIBITION / PROJECTS
2019
“Turnabout”, Solo Exhibition, George Fox University, Minthrome Gallery, Newburg, OR
2018
“Breathing You”, Take One Public Project, Boston, MA
2018
“Inside Out”, Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Palos Hills, IL
2015
“Knife”, Rebuild Foundation, Chicago, IL
2015
“Grow Some Balls”, Institute Fur Alles Mogliche, Berlin, Germany
2015
“Kachi” (Performance Art), Woman made gallery, Chicago, IL
2014
Soup Exchange: A Transnational Feminist Conversation- Iran & U.S.”, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
2014
“Azadi’s Playlist”, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL
2017
“The Mother is Present”, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2014
“The Pairing”, MANA, Chicago, IL (In collaboration with Hanna M. Owens)
2014
“The Pairing”, Seed Space, Nashville, TN (In collaboration with Hanna M. Owens)
2014
“Wants to want”, Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, IL
2014
“National Anthem”, Espand, Links Hall, Chicago, IL (In collaboration with Hanna M. Owens)
2014
“Tongue”, CAA Hotel Room Project, Chicago, IL
2012
"Nesai", Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, PA
2012
"Separated", Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, PA
2008-2009
Dance Performance, Global Festival Show, Michigan State University, MI
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
“The Artist-Mother is Present”, Extended Self: Transformations and Connections, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2018
“Living Architecture”, Library of Refuseniks, 6018 North, Chicago, IL
2018
“Firsts and Starts”, Roman Suzan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018
“This is not Art”, A night of reading, The Overlook Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017
“Eye Level”, LeRoy Neiman Center, Chicago, IL
2017
“Hiding in Plain Sight”, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2016
“Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women and Work”, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL
2016
“The Islands of the Sun”, Chicago Artist Coalition, IL
2016
“Banished from the Homeland”, Heaven Gallery, IL
2016
“Stovetop H/earth”, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2015
“Gush”, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2015
“Soup Exchange”, Three Walls + ACRE TV, Chicago, IL
2015
“Archival Impulse”, Gender and Sexuality Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, I
2014
“The Cycle”, Sexy, Foundation for Asian American Independent Media, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
2014
“A Room with a View”, CAA Hotel Room Project, Chicago, IL
2012
“Self-portrait”, Women and Science Show, Edinboro, PA
2011
“Masjid”, Millcreek Art Show, Erie, PA
SELECTED FILM SCREENINGS
2019
“Witch Hunt”, The Annals of Hell, Zakaib Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017
“Witch Hunt”, I Feel Your Opposition in This Light, AND Gallery, Jackson, MS
2017
“Mother Monster”, Roots and Culture, Gala, Chicago, IL
2016
“Witch Hunt”, Protest, Slate Arts and Performance, Chicago, IL
2016
“Witch Hunt”, Empowerpoint, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO
2016
“Witch Hunt”, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2016
“Witch Hunt”, Casa da Cultura, Góis, Portugal
2016
“Witch Hunt”, Berlin Feminist Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2016
“Witch Hunt”, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
2015
“Witch Hunt”, Perto De La, Salvador, Brazil
2015
“Witch Hunt”, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015
“Witch Hunt”, Nightingale, Chicago, IL
2015
“Mother Monster”, Wretched Nobles Screening, Chicago, IL
2015
“Witch Hunt”, I can’t Breathe, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015
“Witch Hunt”, Dialogue Initiative, Chicago, IL
2014
“Muted Uprising”, La Centrale Welcomes CHICAGQ, Montreal, Canada
2014
“Underground”, Chicago’ In Montreal, La Centrale, Montreal, Canada
2012
"Permission from God", Wealthy Theatre, Grand Rapids, MI
2012
"Permission from God", Kentwood, MI
2012
"Permission from God", Dave Weinkauf Film Festival, Edinboro, PA
2012
"Masoumeh", Dave Weinkauf Film Festival, Edinboro, PA
2012
"Apparatus, The Hollywood Theater, Pittsburg, PA
2012
"Like her, like me", Dave Weinkauf Film Festival, Edinboro, PA
TECHNICAL ABILITIES
Set design and production for stop motion animation; Armature/puppet making for stop motion animation | Figure drawing and basic painting | 2D Animation (Traditional Animation) | Paint on glass animation | Paper cut out animation | Character design for animation | Story boarding for film, video, and animation | Stage lighting for animation set and video | Working with Green screen in production and post production | After Effects | Final Cut Pro | Adobe Premier | Monkey Jam | dragon | Movie Maker | Microsoft Word | Familiar with: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Light Room, and light wave | Basic sewing with hand and machine; Basic knitting and crochet | Welding metal for basic sculpture | Casting with plaster | Relief sculpture using plaster | Woodcut print making
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
Farsi (Persian): Fluent, English: Fluent, Arabic: Read and Write
Practicing Artist, Writer, and Educator
Portland, OR, U.S.A
[email protected] | www.soheilaazadi.com
EDUCATION
2015
MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
2012
BFA Cum Laude, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA (Minor: Art History)
2001
AA, Azad University of Najafabad, Esfahan, Iran
EMPLOYMENT
2024-Current
Director of Programs, Greater New Hope Charities
2021-2024
Program's Director, Portland Refugee Support Group
2020-2021
Adjunct Faculty, Portland State University, OR
2017-2019
Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2015-2016
Lecturer, Oakton Community College, IL
2016
Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2016
Artist Guide/Curator, Teen Creative Agency, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, IL
2013-2014
Graduate Assistant: Technical Support, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
2004-2009
Substitute Teacher, Michigan State University Child Development Center, Lansing, MI
1999
Art Teacher, Fajr Preschool, Esfahan, Iran
COLLEGE LEVEL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020Politics of Storytelling
Drawing inspiration from the third wave feminism, this course touches upon the importance of personal narrative as a way to build history. In this course students will learn how to investigate, contextualize, and narrate their personal narratives using different media such as video, performance, sculpture, etc. This class offers a variety of ways of thinking through making by learning about the history of storytelling, studying art works as well as reading scholarly articles that deal with “Politics of Storytelling”.
Portland State University, OR
2019
Core Studio Practice Intensive I and II
Core Studio is a fast-paced, yearlong sequence of courses that introduces students to both disciplinary and interdisciplinary art and design practices. These team-taught classes explore the materials and techniques of surface, space, and time (2D, 3D, and 4D), as well as the connections and interplay of these areas. Core Studio integrates the formal with the conceptual, traditional with the contemporary, and makes visible a variety of approaches in current cultural production in order to foster the development of students’ emerging practices as makers and thinkers.
School of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2018
Where is the friend’s home? –Designed and Developed by Soheila Azadi
What is home? Where do we belong? What constitutes the idea of a “home”? Students in this class explore different ways to investigate, document, contextualize, and portray their personal memories of “home”. Framing our personal memories within the Feminist theory, we understand that the personal is political and therefore has global implications. “Home” and memories attached to it, is defined differently based on people’s sociopolitical and geopolitical conditions. In this class, students will learn diverse ways of making and thinking through what they define as “home” and memories and stories related to it in relation to the current political climate.
School of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2017
Research Studio I
Research Studio I, explores the themes, practices, and contexts of cultural inquiry undertaken by artists. Students experience a variety of research methodologies, both conventional and alternative, utilizing collections and archives in the School and its extended communities in response to studio- based project assignments.
School of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2017
A Thousand and One Night Stories- Designed and Developed by Soheila Azadi
Course begins to investigate personal experiences as a starting point to create visual art. Drawing from second-wave feminism, it becomes clear that there is a close engagement between private experience and the social and political structures that shape our world. Through this class, students will address different ways to investigate, document, contextualize, and share their personal stories and introduce diverse ways of making and thinking through these material investigations.
School of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2016
Women and Creativity
Course explores selected creative works done by women. Content includes activism, literature, art, music, film, and philosophy; also explores women creativity as manifested through shaping of community and domestic institutions, and through domestic arts.
Oakton Community College, IL
2015
Senior Projects Critiques
Critique/discussion for advanced art majors, Individual frequent studio visits with senior students to help them develop their practice, group critiques to help students develop an idea for their thesis show.
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2014
Topics in Video
An intermediate video production course in theory
and practice. Assignments, screenings, discussions, and reading related to video art as well as technical skills needed for pre-production, production, and post-production. Primary focus of this work was to use photo as a tool to make videos.
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2014
Artist Mentor, Arts of Life, Chicago, IL
2014
Workshop on Performance Art and Sculpture, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2013
Workshop on After Effects, Adobe Premier. University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2013
Weekly workshops on different Cameras, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS
2020-2021
Artist-in-residence at Portland State University, Portland, OR
2020-2021
Artist-in-residence at the Dr Martin Luther King Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA) in Portland, Oregon.
2015-2017
Artist-in-residence, HATCH Projects, Chicago Artist Coalition, IL
2015
Artist-in-residence, Institute Fur Alles Mogliche, Berlin, Germany
2015
Provost Diess Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2014-2015
Dean’s Scholar Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2014
Propeller Fund (Tracer’s Club), Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2014
Travel Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2013-2014
Board Of Trustees, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2012
Magna Cum Laude, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, PA
2010-2012
Dean’s List Recipient, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, PA
2007-2009
Dean’s List Recipient, Lansing Community College, MI
PRESS
2018
“Talking Art”, The Culture of Practice& The Practice of Culture in MFA Education, Gary Alan Fine, The University of Chicago Press
2018
Interview, Asian American Art Oral History Project, DePaul University
2018
“Artist gives voice to Muslim women through Palos Hills art exhibition”, Chicago Tribune, Daily Southtown
2017
Interview, Cultural Reproducers
2016
“A New Exhibition Explores the Social Critique of Funny Art”, The Creator Project
2015
“Oppression Inspires Art in New Exhibition”, The Colombia Chronicle, Arts & Culture
2015
“Stories From Inside”, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2014
“Climate of Fear”, The Present Tense, Family
2014
“The Pairing” Espand, Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival
2014
“Is Feminism A Dirty Word?” practically speaking; a radio Interview- WBEZ 91.5 Chicago - Vocallo
2014
“Five X Five: Dance and Performance”, Chicago Artist Resources”, Chicago, IL
2012
“Boro Messenger”, online news of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, PA
2012
Student to Exhibit Performance Art Piece in Bruce Gallery, “The Spectator”, Newspaper of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, PA
2012
Animation Student Adapts to Postponing of Performance Piece, “The Spectator”, Newspaper of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, PA
PUBLICATIONS
2020
Empathy, (THE) OLD FUTURE'S ALMANAC, FlatLand
2017
Hold that Space for me, Chicago Artist Writers
2017
Feminist Advice From the City of Broad Shoulders
2016
Division (series of five short stories), Sixty Inches From Center
ACTIVITIES
2021
Presenter, Assembly Arts and Social Practice Conference, Portland, OR
2021
Exhibition Committee, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2021
Presenter, “Gendered Spaces”, SX Art & Agency Symposium, PA
2021
Artist Talk, Dr Martin Luther King Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA), Portland, OR
2019
Artist Talk, Chehalem Cultural Center, Newburg, OR
2018
Artist Talk, Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Morain Valley College, Palos Hills, IL
2017
Panelist, What is your Feminist Agenda?, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2017
Artist Talk, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2016
(Curator), In the Here and the There, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2016
(Presenter), Creating Justice Symposium, Oakton Community College, IL
2016
Artist talk, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2015
Panelist, Considering the Radical Handmade; Crafting Traditions and Feminism), Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
2015
Artist talk, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Germany
2015
Panelist, Feminism Craft and Intellectual Discourse, New York University, Florence, Italy
2015
Feminist Parking Lot with Tracers, Florence, New York University, Florence, Italy
2015
Artist talk, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2015
Feminist Parking lot by Tracer’s Feminist Club, MCA, Chicago, IL
2014
Guest Artist Critique, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL (BFA class)
2014
Presenter, Mutual Interpretation, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2014
Artist Talk, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2014
Festival, The Society for Arts, Chicago, IL
2014
Conversation on Craft and Feminism, Feminist Parking Lot: considering the radical handmade, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2013
Panelist, Feminism and Race, Three walls gallery, Chicago, IL
2012
48-Hour Film Competition, Pittsburg, PA
SOLO EXHIBITION / PROJECTS
2019
“Turnabout”, Solo Exhibition, George Fox University, Minthrome Gallery, Newburg, OR
2018
“Breathing You”, Take One Public Project, Boston, MA
2018
“Inside Out”, Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Palos Hills, IL
2015
“Knife”, Rebuild Foundation, Chicago, IL
2015
“Grow Some Balls”, Institute Fur Alles Mogliche, Berlin, Germany
2015
“Kachi” (Performance Art), Woman made gallery, Chicago, IL
2014
Soup Exchange: A Transnational Feminist Conversation- Iran & U.S.”, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
2014
“Azadi’s Playlist”, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL
2017
“The Mother is Present”, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2014
“The Pairing”, MANA, Chicago, IL (In collaboration with Hanna M. Owens)
2014
“The Pairing”, Seed Space, Nashville, TN (In collaboration with Hanna M. Owens)
2014
“Wants to want”, Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, IL
2014
“National Anthem”, Espand, Links Hall, Chicago, IL (In collaboration with Hanna M. Owens)
2014
“Tongue”, CAA Hotel Room Project, Chicago, IL
2012
"Nesai", Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, PA
2012
"Separated", Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, PA
2008-2009
Dance Performance, Global Festival Show, Michigan State University, MI
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
“The Artist-Mother is Present”, Extended Self: Transformations and Connections, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2018
“Living Architecture”, Library of Refuseniks, 6018 North, Chicago, IL
2018
“Firsts and Starts”, Roman Suzan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018
“This is not Art”, A night of reading, The Overlook Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017
“Eye Level”, LeRoy Neiman Center, Chicago, IL
2017
“Hiding in Plain Sight”, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2016
“Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women and Work”, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL
2016
“The Islands of the Sun”, Chicago Artist Coalition, IL
2016
“Banished from the Homeland”, Heaven Gallery, IL
2016
“Stovetop H/earth”, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2015
“Gush”, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2015
“Soup Exchange”, Three Walls + ACRE TV, Chicago, IL
2015
“Archival Impulse”, Gender and Sexuality Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, I
2014
“The Cycle”, Sexy, Foundation for Asian American Independent Media, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
2014
“A Room with a View”, CAA Hotel Room Project, Chicago, IL
2012
“Self-portrait”, Women and Science Show, Edinboro, PA
2011
“Masjid”, Millcreek Art Show, Erie, PA
SELECTED FILM SCREENINGS
2019
“Witch Hunt”, The Annals of Hell, Zakaib Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017
“Witch Hunt”, I Feel Your Opposition in This Light, AND Gallery, Jackson, MS
2017
“Mother Monster”, Roots and Culture, Gala, Chicago, IL
2016
“Witch Hunt”, Protest, Slate Arts and Performance, Chicago, IL
2016
“Witch Hunt”, Empowerpoint, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO
2016
“Witch Hunt”, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2016
“Witch Hunt”, Casa da Cultura, Góis, Portugal
2016
“Witch Hunt”, Berlin Feminist Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2016
“Witch Hunt”, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
2015
“Witch Hunt”, Perto De La, Salvador, Brazil
2015
“Witch Hunt”, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015
“Witch Hunt”, Nightingale, Chicago, IL
2015
“Mother Monster”, Wretched Nobles Screening, Chicago, IL
2015
“Witch Hunt”, I can’t Breathe, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015
“Witch Hunt”, Dialogue Initiative, Chicago, IL
2014
“Muted Uprising”, La Centrale Welcomes CHICAGQ, Montreal, Canada
2014
“Underground”, Chicago’ In Montreal, La Centrale, Montreal, Canada
2012
"Permission from God", Wealthy Theatre, Grand Rapids, MI
2012
"Permission from God", Kentwood, MI
2012
"Permission from God", Dave Weinkauf Film Festival, Edinboro, PA
2012
"Masoumeh", Dave Weinkauf Film Festival, Edinboro, PA
2012
"Apparatus, The Hollywood Theater, Pittsburg, PA
2012
"Like her, like me", Dave Weinkauf Film Festival, Edinboro, PA
TECHNICAL ABILITIES
Set design and production for stop motion animation; Armature/puppet making for stop motion animation | Figure drawing and basic painting | 2D Animation (Traditional Animation) | Paint on glass animation | Paper cut out animation | Character design for animation | Story boarding for film, video, and animation | Stage lighting for animation set and video | Working with Green screen in production and post production | After Effects | Final Cut Pro | Adobe Premier | Monkey Jam | dragon | Movie Maker | Microsoft Word | Familiar with: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Light Room, and light wave | Basic sewing with hand and machine; Basic knitting and crochet | Welding metal for basic sculpture | Casting with plaster | Relief sculpture using plaster | Woodcut print making
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
Farsi (Persian): Fluent, English: Fluent, Arabic: Read and Write
