BORN: Tehran, Iran EDUCATION: MFA Imaging and Digital Art 2004 UMBC, MD MFA Painting 1999 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY BA Painting 1993 University of Maryland, College Park, MD GRANTS: 2010 Individual Artist Grant, Maryland State Arts Council 2009 Mary Sawyers Baker Award, William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund 2009 Finalist, Emerging Fields, Innovative Literature, and Performing Arts, Creative Capital Grant, New York, NY 2008 Individual Artist Grant, Maryland State Arts Council 2003 RTKL Grant in Visual Arts 1996 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant 1995 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2010 Some Kind of Love, Jean Efron Art Consultants, Washington D.C. (current) 2009 Paper Pattern Color Culture, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2008 Exodus, The Carriage House, Baltimore, MD 2004 The Little Black Fishes, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD Spin, MFA Exhibition, CVAC, UMBC, Baltimore, MD 2000 Taste, UMBC, Baltimore, MD 1997 Speak + Sound + Touch, East Hall Galleries, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 1996 September Promises, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2010 More of the best is yet to come, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Upcoming) Ritual: Form, Script and Gesture, A Pop Up Project Curated by Amy Morton Fine Art, Washington DC (Upcoming) Sondheim Prize, Semi-Finalist Exhibition, MICA, Baltimore, MD MICA Sondheim Prize and Baker Award Honorees, Casewerks Baltimore, MD I(RAN) Home (In America), CoCA, Seattle, WA Gallery Artists Group Show, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2009 Hidden Wounds, Paper Bullets: Iranian Contemporary Art, Grant Arts Central, Fullerton CA I (RAN) Home (In America), The Fridge DC, Washington D.C. Cross‐Currents: Trends in Contemporary Art Media, Sarah Silberman Gallery, MD Protocol: Syntax / Semantics, Gallery 4, Baltimore, MD Baker Artist Awards Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Women’s Work, Civilian Art Place, Washington D.C. Bastakiya Art Fair, Saatchi, Dubai, UAE Bi‐Annual Symposium on Media Arts, Delaware College, Delaware, PA Hand to Frame/Surface to Lens, MSAC Gallery, Baltimore, MD Penned, Traveling Exhibition, Lump Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC 2008 Drawing Fusion, CCBC, Catonsville, MD Hidden and Revealed, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD Full Circle, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD Penned, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD 2007 Iconology, Red Saw Gallery, Newark, New Jersey Changing Climate Changing Colors, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY 2006 The Notebook, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD Displacement, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD 2004 Solace: Searching for Meaning in a Time of Distress, Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C. 2003 Under The Table and Dreaming, Raleigh Studios, Baltimore, MD 2002 Solace, Open Studio Exhibition, Raleigh Studios, Baltimore, MD 2000 Thirty‐Feet of Wisdom, University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD 1999 30 x 30, Cinque Gallery, New York, NY Summer Show, Center for Iranian Modern Art, New York, NY PUBLICATIONS: “Issue #88,” New American Paintings, The Open Studio Press, Boston, MA, 2010 “Emergence,” Exhibition catalogue, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2007 “Siouxsie,” Link Journal on the Arts, Issue No. 10, Baltimore, MD, 2004 REVIEWS: Emily Warner, “paperpatterncolorculture” The Brooklyn Rail, (November, 2009) Richard Chang, “Iranian art at Grand Central in Santa Ana”, The Orange County Register (November 20, 2009) Dave Barton, “Mythologizing the Martyrs of Iran at Grand Central Art Center”, Orange County Weekly (December 3, 2009) Richard Chang, “Iranian art offers window to changing world”, The Orange County Register (November 16, 2009) Lavanya Ramanathan, Gallery opening of the week: “I RAN Home at the Fridge” in Southeast Washington, Washington Post, (November 13, 2009) Maura Judkis, “ I RAN Home (in America)”, Washington City Paper, (November 11, 2009) Stephanie Merry, “ Art I Ran Home (In America)”, Washington Post (November 4, 2009) Mike Unger, “Baker Artist Award Winners at BMA” About.com, (May 26,2009) Michael O’Sullivan, “In Baltimore, Artists Win a Vote of confidence” Washington Post, (May 22, 2009) Victoria Donohoe, “New Media Exhibit” The Philadelphia Inquirer, (April 10, 2009) Edward Gunts, “Baker Artist Awards Names Winners”The Baltimore Sun, (March 25, 2009) Bret McCabe, “Moving Pictures Exhibition Exploring Transforming Images Also Recasts Their Emotive Potential” Baltimore City Paper, (February 25, 2009) Ellyn Weiss, “Wright, Shafie, Cabazon and Tan at Civilian Art Projects” eweissart.com Robert Jason Fagan, “Hand to Frame/Surface to Lens” Exhibition Catalogue, (February, 2009) Robert Jason Fagan, “Drawing Fusion” Exhibition Catalogue, (October, 2008) Mike Guiliano, “MAP‐ing Out How We Figure In” Baltimore City Paper, (August 14, 2008) Bret McCabe, Visions of Excess: Information Overload Trumps Demur Artfulness” Baltimore City Paper, (August 20, 2008) Kate Noonan, “Full Circle” An Artscape Exhibition, Baltimore City Paper (July 23, 2008) Alex, “Full Circle” Then There Where Ten Tigers, (July, 10, 2008) Hadi Gharabaghi, “Where is the friend’s house?” Iranian.com (October 19, 2005) “Iranian Artist in Exile” Payvand Iran News, Washington, D.C. (July 30, 2004) Carl Hartman, “The Poignancy and Pain of Exile” AP Washington, D.C. (August 8,2004) ARTIST LECTURES: 2009 Baker Artist Awards, The Hamilton Club, Baltimore, MD Women’s Work, Civilian Art Place, Washington D.C. 2008 Negotiating Times: An Exploration of Culture, Politics and Identity Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York, NY 2007 Emergence, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2006 Displacement, Provisions Library, Washington, D.C. 2004 Solace: Searching for Meaning in a Time of Distress, Middle East Institute, Washington D.C. Spin, RTKL Public Lecturer CVAC, UMBC, Baltimore, MD The Little Black Fishes, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD Children’s Workshop: The Little Black Fishes, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD GALLERY REPRESENTATION: Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA