Mahshid Shoorangiz

After years devoted to realism, my art evolved toward abstraction as a deeper engagement with mythology and philosophy. Whereas mimetic realism investigates the visible world through formal precision, abstraction opens a space in which symbolic narratives, archetypal structures, and affective states emerge as semiotic constellations. Mythological themes persist beyond historical epochs as living structures shaping both personal and communal awareness. Reinterpreted through contemporary realities and cultural complexities, they disclose enduring philosophical and psychological dimensions across civilizations. Through chromatic modulations of form, gesture, and light, meaning emerges relationally from memory, perception, and cultural association. Transcendence from recursive self-reference, paired with the active dialectic between reality and perception, order and instability, individual and collective consciousness, and dissolution and resurrection, is central to my work.

Started artistic training at the age of 9 at the Shiraz Center for Art and Culture

Master’s degree in Graphic Design, University of Art, Tehran (2003)

Professional activity in graphic design and visual arts

- Solo exhibition, Negarkhaneh Vessal, Shiraz (1995)
- Vally Galerie,Teheran, Iran (1997)
- Banafsheh Galerie,Teheran, Iran (1998)
- Mojdeh Galerie,Teheran, Iran (1999)
- Numerous exhibitions in various galleries

- Ligneolus Galerie, Nuremberg, Germany (2025)