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Education

  • Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, Georgia Southern University, May 2021

  • Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design, Ferdows Institute of Higher Education, 2012

  • Associate Degree in Graphic Design, Sabzevar Technical College, 2009


Teaching Experience

  • Instructor of Record, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, 2019-2021

    • 2D Art and Design Foundations

    • Digital Foundations


Professional Experience

  • Graduate Assistant, Marketing Graphic Designer, Georgia Southern University, Recreation Activity Center (RAC), Statesboro, GA, 2018-2019

  • Layout and Graphic Designer, Shahrara Newspaper, Mashhad, Iran, 2012-2018


Recognitions, Honors & Awards

  • MyMa September Grant winner, 2023

  • Artrepreneur Emerging Artist Grant winner, 2023

  • Grand Prize Winner of Artrepreneur “Systems” Art Competition, 2022

  • The Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art Carolyn Joyner Memorial Scholarship, Statesboro, Georgia, 2020

  • The Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art Travel Award, Statesboro, Georgia, 2020

  • Nominated for the Averitte Award in Excellence in Graduate Research and Instruction, Statesboro, Georgia, 2020

  • Student Scholarship Award, Professional Organization of Iranian Americans, 2019

  • Best Urban Monument Design, Municipal Spring Urban Monument Architecture
    & Design Festival, Mashhad, Iran, 2016


Group Exhibitions

  • Balance, Online Group Exhibition, Tebbs Gallery, UK, 2022

  • Imagination’s Green Light, Group Exhibition, Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2021

  • Possibilities, MFA Group Exhibition, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA, 2021

  • Outlook, MFA Showcase, Center for Art & Theatre, Contemporary Gallery, Statesboro, GA, 2020

  • Matter, MFA Exhibition, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA, 2019

  • Blurry but Magnificent, Iranian Women Artists Exhibition, Woodruff Art Center, Carr Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2019

  • Somewhere Around, Group Exhibition, Aban Gallery, Mashhad, Iran, 2015

  • Nothing, Group Exhibition, Char-soq Gallery, Mashhad, Iran, 2012

  • Khat, Group Exhibition, Char-soq Gallery, Mashhad, Iran, 2012

  • Photographic Prose, Poster Design Exhibition, Soltanali Mashhadi Gallery, Mashhad, Iran, 2010


Solo Exhibitions

  • Conflux, Cabin Contemporary Gallery, Pottsville, PA, 2024