Shahrzad Amin

Shahrzad Amin is an Iranian-Canadian award-winning interdisciplinary artist with more than twelve years of diverse experiences as a sculptor, multimedia and installation artist, model designer, stop-motion artist, and potter. She creates socially engaging art pieces that invoke thoughts and encourage conversations about socio-cultural issues that surround us. Shahrzad makes original pieces that truly move people to feel intense emotions. Her interest in fundamental social issues such as democracy, human rights, equality, and migration has informed an art practice examining diasporic and socio-cultural subjectivities through the lenses of art practice, sensory ethnographic filmmaking, architectural design, gender, and language. Her works highlight a social openness and necessity for global international connectivity, by applying the historical eastern architectural figures such as arch bridges as a metaphor for overcoming cultural distances. She obtained a BFA from Tehran University of Art in 2010 and a MFA from OCADU in 2020.

2020: Faculty of Fine Arts, OCAD University, Canada
Master of Fine Arts Interdisciplinary in Media, Art, and Design
2016: Concept Sculpting in ZBrush - Syn Studio Art School, Canada
2012: Faculty of Fine Arts - Concordia University, Canada
Independent student, Sculpture
2010: Faculty of Fine Arts -Tehran Art University, Iran
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021: Ignite Gallery, (Upcoming), Toronto, ON
2021: Acceptance to the First-Time Filmmaker Film Festival, United Kingdom
2021: Acceptance to the 12th Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival, Los Angeles. L.A
2020: Cameron Art Museum, Illumination 2020, Wilmington, NC, Supported by Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2020: Ignite Gallery, LOREM IPSUM - PART TWO (Virtual Exhibition) Toronto, ON
2020: Grad Ex 105, OCAD University, Toronto, ON (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
2020: IAMD Graduate Show, TMAC, Toronto, ON (Cancelled due to COVID-19) 2019: Graduate Gallery, Florence Contemporary Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto, ON 2019: Graduate Gallery, Hidden Order, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2019: The Open Gallery, Living with Things, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2018: Graduate Gallery, CO-, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2018: 57th edition of Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON
2018: 145 Ontario Society of Artists Annual Open Juried Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2018: WONDROUS WAYS, Arta Gallery, Toronto, ON
2018: VAM’s 40th Annual Juried Show, Art Gall...