EDUCATION
2018 – 2021. MFA · Creative Practice in Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication
The University of Texas at Dallas . Dallas . TX
2011 – 2014. MA . Graphic Design
University of Tehran . Tehran . Iran
2006 – 2010. BFA . Graphic Design
Nabi Akram Institute of Higher Education . Tabriz. Iran
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023. From Illustration to Design . Angelo State University . San Angelo, TX . curator Leila Yarian
2023. The Sigh . Spiva Gallery . Missouri Southern State University . Joplin, MO
2021. Symphony of An Immigrant’s Life . SP/N Gallery . UTD . Dallas, TX
2015. Sneer’ . Fine Arts Gallery . University of Tehran . Tehran, Iran
2014. Illustration works Collection . Hossein Mahjoobi Gallery . Lahijan, Iran
2011. 1001 Nights . Kooshyar Institution Gallery . Rasht, Iran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024. Suitcase . 480 Lighthouse Gallery . Pacific Grove. CA
2024. Nowruz Artisian . Campbell Community Center . San Jose . CA . curator Avideh Yaghmai
2024. Video Art Night . LabSynthE . Pegasus Plaza . Dallas, TX . curator xtine burrough
2023. Packard Group National Exhibition . No. 7 Center Gallery . Vermillion, SD . curator Klaire Lockheart
2023. Mother’s Room . virtually via newart.city . USA . curator Liz Trosper
2022. Printmaking Concepts: The Surprise at the “Other” End of the Press . SP/N Gallery . UTD . Dallas, TX
curator Lorrain Tady
2022. LabSynthE featuring illustration by Maedeh Asgharpour . One Breath Poem in the exhibit Ceremonial
Techne (xtine burrough and Sabrina Starnaman) . Mamdouha Bobst Gallery . New York University .
New York, NY October 2022-May 2023
2022. Fly to My Dream . Irving Art Association . Irving, TX curator Pouran Lashini
2021. LabSynthE. Syntonic Refuge. In Ceremonial Techne . Mamdouha Bobst Gallery . New York University .
New York, NY
2021. Leticia Ferreira and Alyssa Yates with LabSynthE . An Imagined Genealogy of Michel
Foucault . 12 by 12 foot quilt block for the AIDS Quilt . Exhibited in burrough and Starnaman
Ceremonial Techne . Bobst Library Atrium Gallery . New York University . New York, NY
2021. LabSynthE . Your Last Breath’s Desire . French Ministry of Culture’s Spring of Poets . Grotte
du Lazaret . Nice, France
2021. Profs’ Picks’ . Site 131. Dallas, TX curator by John Pomara
2020. 2020 Hindsight . Irving Art Association . Irving, TX curator Pouran Lashini
2020. Remember. Breathe. Dream, Cara Mía Theatre . Dallas, TX
2020. Sculpture installation . MotherBoard . Eisemann Center . Richardson, TX
2020. Mirror in Mirror . Irving Art Association . Irving, TX curator Pouran Lashini
2020. Zarafa Unfolding . SP/N Gallery . UTD . Dallas, TX curator Greg Metz
2019. POP-UP Locker Exhibition . Freedom of expression . ATEC . UTD . Dallas, TX curator xtine burrough
2019. The Road to The Heart . Irving Art Association . Irving, TX curator Pouran Lashini
2018 IV International Skylight Prize for illustration . CasaTeatro El Poblado . Medellin, Colombia
2017. Photography Exhibition (94) . Private Zone . Sane Gallery . Sanandaj, Iran curator Zhooan Rzaei
2016. Illustration Exhibition . 1001 Nights . Iranian Illustrators Society with collaboration of the Book House
Institute . Niavaran Gallery . Tehran, Iran
2015. Photography Exhibition (94) . Instagraphy . Ashena Gallery . Shiraz, Iran curator Zhooan Rzaei
2015. Poster Exhibition . In support of children with cancer and immunodeficiency . Children’s Medical
Center . Omid Gallery . Tehran, Iran
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS
2021. Best Graphic Art . 2020 HINDSIGHT . 6th annual Persian Art Exhibition . Irving Art Association . Dallas, TX
2021. Scholars Fellowship . HASTAC . Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and
Collaboratory . Dallas, TX
2020. Research Fellowship. Office of Research and the Office of Graduate Education UTD . Dallas, TX
2020. Best Poster Design . 2020 The Scariest Halloween (COVID-19) . UTD . Dallas, TX
2019. First and second prizes POP-UP Locker Exhibition . Freedom of expression . UTD . Dallas, TX
2019. Second prize . The Road to The Heart . Irving Art Association . Dallas, TX
2018. One of the top 10 finalists in IV International skylight prize illustration . SkyLight 2017 . Medellin, Colombia
2018. Graduate fellowship . University of Texas at Dallas . Dallas, TX
2017. Selected in ‘Dariche’ Festival . Leaders Summit Galery . Tehran, Iran
2016. Selected in ‘Healthy citizens’ . Graphic Design Festival . Organization of Tehran Beautification . Tehran, Iran
2016. Selected in First ‘Golestan’ Photography Festival . Tehran, Iran