EDUCATION
2019 MFA, Art Practice, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2016 MA, Archaeology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
2014 BA, Archaeological Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITION
2016 History of Present, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2019 The Bay Area MFA Show, Doug Adams Gallery, Berkeley, CA
MFA Show, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, CA
Once at Present, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Support the Tropes, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2018 Wave Forms, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Hand that Guides, pop-up exhibition, San Francisco, CA
The Annual Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
30th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, CA
Signal/No Signal, Martin Wong Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 MFA Whatever, Martin Wong Gallery, San Francisco, CA
RESIDENCIES
2019 Real Time and Space, Oakland, CA
ARTIST TALK/LECTURE
2020 Real Time and Space, Oakland, CA
2019 Protest Sign, Introduction to Visual Thinking Course (Thought by Heesoo Kwon), UC Berkeley, CA
Round Table, Dough Adams Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2017 MFA Now Slide Slam, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2019 Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement, San Francisco State University, CA
Sher-Right Scholarship, San Francisco State University, CA
2018 Jack K. & Gertrude Murphy Award, SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION, San Francisco, CA
Leo D.Stillwell Award, San Francisco State University, CA
2017 Christine Tamblyn Memorial Scholarship, San Francisco State University, CA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2020 A Place Beyond, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (Forthcoming)
Curated by MUZ Collective (Calum Craik, Shirin Khalatbari, Natasha Loewy, Beril Or)
PUBLICATION
2019 Kelly Kirkland, “Once at Present: Contemporary Art of Bay Area Iranian Diaspora at Minnesota Street Project,” Art Practical, May 1, 2019
Sura Wood, “Galleries at Minnesota Street Project showcase artwork inspired by the political and cultural changes in Iran since the 1979 Revolution”, SF/ARTS, March 2019
MFA Now 2019, Root Division, CA
2017 MFA Now 2017, Root Division, CA
LANGUAGES
Persian, Italian, English, Arabic