Mehnoush Modonpour

“Born in Tehran, Iran, as a woman, I have experienced revolution, immigration, war and different cultures in varying phases of my life.

Throughout these experiences my work has often gone outside the “traditional” boundaries of my culture. My work would seem to defy certain concepts that I have been taught to ‘obey’.

I have come to believe that ignorance is the source of human suffering. However, my work shows a break from my cultural traditions while also showing the consequences that comes of ignorance. With my personal life experiences and understandings of different cultures and religions, I also believe in human connection and equality despite differences in ethnicity, gender, religion and culture.

Therefore my work explores the relationship between human, its surrounding, and everything in between.”

2020 – 2021, Sculpture at Ateliers Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Jacques Rieu, Paris, France.

2015 – 2019, Sculpture at Ateliers Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Jacques Rieu, Paris, France.

2012 – 2014, visual art (Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Ceramic, Photography, Mixed Media), Central Technical School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1992 – 1993, drawing and painting, Parvaneh Etemadi, Tehran, Iran.

1988 – 1989, drawing, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran.

1984 – 1986, post-secondary education in “Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne”, Paris, France.

Member of Sculpture Network (Europe’s Network for contemporary three-dimensional Art)

Member of Destructuralisme Figuratif

2022 | AIA (Association Iranian Artists) “CoExistence” | Paris, France
2022 | DF Art Project Exhibition | Paris, France
2022 | Hybrid’s Crib Exhibition “Entity” | Galerie EST, Paris, France
2022 | DF Art Project Virtual Exhibition | Online Exhibition
2021 | DF Art Project Exhibition | Paris, France
2021 | Iranian Artists Independent Exhibition | Chambourcy, France
2020 | DF Art Project Exhibition | Paris, France
2020 | Association « Journée Internationale de Norouz » Exhibition | Paris, France
2019 | Frame Art Fair Basel 2019 | Basel, Switzerland
2014 | Arta Gallery | Toronto, Ontario
2014 | C.T.S. | Annual Group Show | Toronto, Ontario
2013 | C.T.S. | Annual Group Show | Toronto, Ontario
2013 | Arta Gallery | Toronto, Ontario
2012 | N.Y.V.A. Toronto Botanical Garden | Toronto, Ontario
2011 | Arta Gallery | Toronto, Ontario
2008 | Whippersnapper Gallery | Toronto, Ontario
1999 | Burlington Annual Juried Show | Burlington, Ontario
1998 | Kloepfer Gallery | Guelph, Ontario
1997 | Kloepfer Gallery | Guelph, Ontario
1997 | G.C.A.A. Expressions Show | Guelph, Ontario
1997 | Artisan Gallery Eaton Centre | Guelph, Ontario