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BORN in Tehran, Iran

BASED in Montreal, Canada

 

EDUCATION

 

2018  MFA Concentration Painting and Drawing, Concordia University, Montreal

2016  L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Lyon

2010  Diploma in Graphic design, Collège Salette, Montreal

2006  BA in Visual Arts, University of British Columbia (Department of Fine Arts)

2006  BA in Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

2005  L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

 

AWARDS // GRANTS

 

2024 Concept to Realization grant, Canada Council for the Arts

2024  Acquisition and Marketing Grant, CALQ 

2023  Research and Creation (explore and create grant), Canada Council for the Arts

2023  Choix du public (public's choice)​ for Centre Admare, Virtual Exhibition: Check ta Malle

2022  Chicago Indie Film Awards, Best Animation (The GraveSleepers) 

2021-2022  Research and Creation (explore and create grant), Canada Council for the Arts

2020-2021 CAM en Tournée (Montréal Arts Council Touring Program) 

2017  Fine Arts Travel Award Program 

2017  Acquisition and Marketing Grant, Sodec

2016  Quebec Mobility Bursary 

2016  Lillian Vineberg Graduate Award In Painting & Drawing

2015-16  Concordia Merit Scholarship 

2015  Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Impressions Residency and Grant program

2014-2015  MAI (Montreal Intercultural Arts) Alliance Program Grant 

2013-2014  MAI (Montreal Intercultural Arts) Alliance Program grant

2014  Vermont Studio Center Grant through Artist Resource Trust

RESIDENCIES

 

​2024  The RBC Residency of Maison d'Ariane, Métis sur mer, QC

2023 -2024  Studio Residency, MAI (Montréal arts interculturels), Montreal

2023 (Spring) Residency & Exhibition, Espace Colis Suspect, Admare, Magdalen Islands, QC

2022 (Fall) Artist in residence, Ada X digital arts, Montreal 

2022 (Spring) Artist in residence, Le gesù Centre de créativité, Montreal 

2020 (Spring) Artist in residence, Parallel Lines Virtual Residency, Phi Centre, Montreal

2019 (Summer) Artist in residence (résidence d'été), Galerie B-312, Montreal

2017 (August) Artist in residence, Brashnar Creative Project, Skopje, Macedonia

2016 (September) Artist in residence, Brashnar Creative Project, Skopje, Macedonia

2015 (Winter) Artist in residence, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Impressions Residency, Montreal 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024  Contes évanescents / Fading Fables  (Phase II) Maison Pierre Chartrand (Maison de la culture de Rivière-des-Prairies), QC

joint program with Allo Ada (Ada X) 

2023  Suspicious Package (Espace Colis Suspect), Magdalen Islands' Airport, QC

Montreal Arts Council Touring Program (CAM en tournée) 

2021  To live as an organ within oneself, Maison de la culture Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie 

2021  To live as an organ within oneself, Maison de la culture Mercier

2021  To live as an organ within oneself,  Maison de la culture Verdun, Montreal 

2021  To live as an organ within oneself, Maison de la culture de Côte-des-Neiges

2020 To live as an organ within oneself, Maison de la culture Rivière-des-Prairies

2018 To live as an organ within oneself, MAI (Montreal arts interculturels)

2018 To live as an organ within oneself, MFA Gallery, Concordia University  

2015 Extimité / The World Inside, Montreal Council for the Arts

2012 Inverse, Golestan Gallery, Tehran

2010 Bakhtak, Golestan Gallery, Tehran

2008 Untitled, Galerie Zeitzone, Berlin

SCREENINGS / ART FAIRS

 

2024 Fotogenia festival of film poetry and divergent narratives, CDMX, Mexico

2024 Third Watch, Saint John, New Brunswick​

2024 Foire Plural (Art Fair), ArtVolt Collection, Montreal 

2023 Fotogenia festival of film poetry and divergent narratives, CDMX, Mexico 

2023 ATSA, Place des festivals, Montreal 

2023 FIFA, International Festival of Films on Art

2023 Sommet du Cinéma d'animation 

2023 Asiate en court, Festival Accès Asie 

2022 Future Film Festival, Italy 

2022 Chicago Indie Film Awards, (Best Animation Award)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2024 Regarde, Ville de Montréal, Curated by eunice bélidor 

2023 Art Volt Collection, le Livart, Montreal 

2023  ATSA, Place des festivals, Montreal 

2022 Maison modèle IV, Centre Clark, Montreal 

2021 POUR L'ART, Galerie B312, Montreal

2021 Feminine Notions, Rad Hourani Foundation, Montreal

2021 Parallel Lines, Centre Phi, Montreal

2020 Parallel Lines Virtual, Courtesy of Centre Phi 

2020 Salon des refusés, McBride Contemporain, Montreal 

2020 Je ne veux pas que la vie se mette à avoir d’autres volontés que les miennes,

Projet Casa, Montreal (reiterated from Rencontre avec l'art contemporain, Maison de la culture Claude Léveillée)

2019 Osmose : 4 femmes, 4 artistes, 4 cultures , Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée, Montreal

2017 Our Small Global Neighborhood, Cultural Centar Gjorce Petrov, Skopje, R.Macedonia

2017 Maureen II, MFA students’ collective exhibition, Ancienne école des beaux arts, Montreal

2017 Ignition13, Leonard and Ellen Bina Gallery, Concordia, Montreal

2017  Pasrole, MFA Exchange students’ collective exhibition, École

nationale supérieure des beaux arts de Lyon, Lyon

2016  Maureen, MFA students’ collective exhibition, Ancienne école des beaux arts, Montreal

2014  Espejo Negro, La Compania Gallery, Mexico City

2013 Truly Yours, Les Territoires Gallery, Montreal

2013  Espejo Negro, Les Territories Gallery, Montreal

2011 Works on Paper III, Red Bird Studios, Montreal

2010  Young Figurative painters, Etemad Gallery, Tehran

2010  Works on Paper II, Red Bird Studios, Montreal  

2009  Horizons et Contrastes, Mekic Gallery, Montreal

2009  Fly with the Cage, Queen Art Gallery, Toronto

2009  Fly with the Cage, Lennox Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto

2009  Europe Meets America, Seyhoun Gallery, Los Angeles

ARTIST TALKS | CONFERENCES

2023  Artist Talk, Public Presentation, Admare, Magdalen Islands, QC

2023  Artist Talk, Drawing 300, Concordia University

2022  Artist Talk & Residency Presentation, Ada X, Montreal 

2022  Artist Talk, Drawing 300, Concordia University 

2021   Artist Talk, Critical Issues in Painting, Concordia University

2020  Artist Talk , Painting 400, Concordia University

2019 MC Minds Mass Culture, Professional practices in visual arts arising from Indigeneity and Diversity in Montréal,

with Jean-Philippe Uzel and Hannah Claus 

2018  Ginger Garden artist talk, Asian Canadian Wiki in association with Simon de Beauvoir foundation  

2018  Q&A Montreal Monochrome (Sanctuary City), Articule Gallery, Montreal 

2016  Conference at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Impressions Residency, Montreal

2014  Artist talk and exhibition catalogue launch, La Campania Gallery, Mexico City

2013  Artist Talk, Galerie Les Territoires, Montreal
 

PRESS | MEDIA

2023   DE LONG EN LARGE, 20 avril 2023,Naghmeh Sharifi… devenir île, Radio CFIM.

https://cfim.ca/naghmeh-sharifi-devenir-ile/

2022  Sineh-be-Sinehby Prachi Khandekar 

2021 ArtMaze Magazine, Issue 23, London, UK 

2021  Les silhouettes et les corps de Naghmeh Sharifi, Elisabeth Otto, Vie des arts édition 263

2021   The Link Newspaper, Montreal-based Naghmeh Sharifi explores the complexities

of the human condition

in latest exhibit, Reina Ephrahim

2021  L'Atelier, Raconter le corps dépouillé de ses identitésLila Dussault

2021  The Link, The PHI Centre welcomes art enthusiasts with open arms after months of closure, Reina Ephrahim

2021  L'inconvénient magazine, By Marie-Anne Letarte on Pictura, Montreal

2020  Maison de la culture pointe-aux-tremble, To Live As An Organ Within Oneself (Exhibition) 

2020  Vie des Arts, n°259 – Des résidences virtuelles in vivo au Centre Phi, par Marie Claude Mirandette

2020 Éditions Esse, Lignes parallèles, Centre Phi, Montréal, Dominique Sirois-Rouleau  

2020 The Corcordian, Parallel Lines considers what it means to be alone, together.

Lorenza Mezzapelle

2020 Montréal Serai, Naghmeh Sharifi: Souvenirs to Nowhere, Interviewed by Claudia Itzkowich

2020 Le Devoir, Un toit pour les projets orphelins, Jérôme Delgado

2018 Chantal L'Heureux, JUSQU’AU 15 DÉCEMBRE 2018 AU MAI : LE CORPS TERRITOIRE EXPOSÉ, Interview on Radio Centre-Ville 102,3 

2016 Breaking the 9-5: with Naghmeh Sharifi, Molly Cohen 

2015 (October) Maryse Boyse, Extimité / The World Inside: les pinceaux sensibles

de Naghmeh Sharifi, Baron Mag

2015 Le Devoir, Naghmeh Sharifi, lauréate de la résidence d’artiste du MBAM

2015  Interview on Radio_Canada, Arts et culture, Une peintre iranienne en résidence au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, February 2015

2015 (January) Interview on CIBL Radio-Montréal 101,5 FM Montréal s'expose

2013 (July)  Joseph Henry, Cadaverous Collaboration at Les Territoires, Blouin Artinfo

2011 (May) Iranian Visual Arts E-Zine, Talk Magazine

2010 (June) Interview on Radio-Tehran, Art and Culture

2009  Interview by Justin Shaw, Notebook Magazine, Issue 9

COLLECTIONS

Art Volt, Rad Hourani Foundation

Private Collections: Auckland (NZ), Edmonton, San Francisco, Washington, Berlin, Toronto, Montreal, Tehran (IR)

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