Love and Fire Painting

Maryam Hajjar, also known as Maryam Mehrdadfar, is a Persian American artist who was born and grew up in Iran and moved to the USA by marriage. I am a fine art artist and art educator. I started my artistic journey as a makeup artist from Isfahan's central TV station and became known as a technical figure of cinema through my work on several cinematic movies, screenplays, and TV shows and worked as the executive director of a publishing company and owned & managed several media illustration businesses. I graduated with a BA in fine art(painting) in 1996 and a Master of Art in Illustration in 2002, from Tehran Iran. I held a university faculty position in the field of graphic design & illustration at Art & Culture University and Azad University in Tehran & Isfahan since 2001. I also have taught workshops for over 30 years, both regionally and nationally, for educational organizations in Iran as well as Young Rembrandt-Seattle, Kirkland Art Center, Bellevue Art Center, and American Fine Art Academy in present, Washington State. I was the Owner & Managing Director of "The Assar Designers Group" company. I have written & published several books about illustration which are used as one of the main reference books for teaching at the university education system and guest-edited several publications. Exhibited and Judgment internationally work has been shown in Iran such as Contemporary of Esfahan Museum, Gallery Classic, Afarinesh Gallery, Tehran Contemporary Art Museum, and selected by KAC Gallery, Washington, and IACA Festival,2022. My life-long education in art and strategic thinking enabled me to become a multidisciplinary designer, media artist, and illustrator with an eye for innovation and perfection. Art is my life!