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
2025 Rana Bose Memorial Grant (Shortlisted)
2025 Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
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
2026 سفید چال (Sefid Chāl) [Creux blanc], Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal
2025 Echoes, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal
2025 Fading Fables _ Zar-Afshun (Phase I & II) , The Vault Exhibition Space, AGSA, St-Albert, AB
2024 Contes évanescents / Fading Fables (Phase I) 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 / FESTIVALS
2026 HTMLLes Festival, Ada X & Articule, Montreal
2025 Fotogenia festival of film poetry and divergent narratives, CDMX, Mexico
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
2025 Artist Talk/ Workshop, La Centrale galerie Powerhouse, Montreal
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
2025 CBC newsletter mention , Hi, Art!
2025 A folktale comes to life in the vault, Edify, Edmonton
2023 DE LONG EN LARGE, 20 avril 2023,Naghmeh Sharifi… devenir île, Radio CFIM.
https://cfim.ca/naghmeh-sharifi-devenir-ile/
2022 Sineh-be-Sineh, by 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
in latest exhibit, Reina Ephrahim
2021 L'Atelier, Raconter le corps dépouillé de ses identités, Lila 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)