Shahrokh Rezvani

To enter the world of artist Shahrokh Rezvani is to be enraptured by a tale of pure magic and wonder. The potency of his creative expression as a master painter and printmaker overtakes the senses as each color and shape of his life’s work inspires the imagination to transcend beyond our most rigid form of reality. Acclaimed artist Arthur Secunda deemed Rezvani a “Renaissance Man” for his mastery of all traditional art and graphic media, monotypes, photography, drawing, painting, fabric design, hand-constructed papers, and monumental Cyanotype cliché-verre prints.

To look into the face of his artistry is to explore the darkness and the light of our very existence. We are called to respond, even if only to ask ourselves, “What is my version of the truth and reality? Or is it all just an illusion?”
Rezvani's art is based on the belief that our reality is nothing more than an illusion limited to our narrow visual and sensory perceptions parallel to the life that surrounds us. Human eyes are only capable of registering and processing a very limited segment of the light's ray they receive. Therefore what humans perceive as reality is nothing but an illusion of reality in the surrounding physical world. This illusion becomes the re...

1965 – 1969 B.S., Art Education, Ball State University, Muncie, IN

1969 – 1972 M.A., Printmaking and Drawing, Ball State University

January 1973 - M.F.A., Printmaking, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
June 1974

1978 Papermaking and Non-Silver Processes, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1970 – 1971 Young Printmakers 70: A Two-Year National Traveling Exhibition (juried competition), Harron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

1971 Wabash Valley Art Competition, Terre Haute, IN

1971 Indiana Salon of Collegiate Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

1972 Wabash Valley Art Competition, Judged, Terre Haute, IN

1972 Indiana State Art Competition, Indianapolis, IN

1973 Indiana State Art Competition, Indianapolis, IN, 3rd Prize

1973 18th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Competition,

Ball State University, Muncie, IN

1974 – 1975 Indiana Printmakers. A two-year juried traveling exhibition sponsored by the Indiana Arts Commission. Purchase Award.

1974 Indiana State Art Competition, Indianapolis, IN, 2nd Prize

1974 Exposition International Des Arts de Tehran, Tehran, Iran

1975 Contemporary Artists of Persia, Tehran Gallery, Tehran, Iran

1975 Annual National Exhibition of Art, Takht e’ Jamshid Gallery, Tehran, Iran

1976 Art 7 `76, Basel International, Basel, Switzerland

1978 – 1980 "20 Arizona Artists," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ. Touring exhibition,

Mexico. A two-year juried traveling exhibition sponsored by the Phoenix Art

Museum, Arizona Commis...