Shahrzad Ghaffari

My artistic heritage and interests come from my mother's side (fashion designer) and my father's side (Editor). My creativity needed languages to connect and tools to express!.
I worked in prestigious European companies specialized in art & fashion catalogs/magazines.
I developed my eyes and taste for quality through the printing process: image/composition/colors/paper).
The second experience was with an Editor of Custom hand-made carpets and textile for the Design market. I developed the International market while enjoying my interactions with artists, the world of Art & Design and Media while integrating to my creative/artistic abilities.
CANADA:
I launched Sigma-Creators in Montreal in 1994, Editor of Designer/Artists' Custom Hand-made carpets, I was operating successfully in the North American Interior Design market through International Art & Design Conventions and events.
Interior Design studies in Montreal offered to me a better dialog with the North American Designers. In 2001, I was offered the post of Manager at Roche-Bobois, the high-end French Furniture store in Toronto.
Since 2004, the Manager of our Boutique Hotel in Montreal, I enlarged my artistic heritage through Photography & Writing. I continue worki...

. Comparative History of Culture, History of Art & World Litterature, B.A., American University of Tehran, Iran
. Persian Miniature: Maestro Sousan Abadi, Tehran
. Fine-Arts, Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
. Ethnology, Ph.D., University of Paris VII (Jussieu), Paris
. Interior Design, Dawson and College de Vieux Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Other:
. Photography, Tai-chi: Lew Yung-Chien, Westmount/Montreal, Quebec, Canada
. Drawing: Bruce Roberts, Westmount/Montreal,
. Centre Art Visuel: Multi-Média, Marie-Claude Boutilier, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
. Singing: Ira Sokolova, Gleams Theatre, Westmount/Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
. Ballet: Sheila Lawrence, Sylvie Normandin, Westmount/Montreal, Quebec, Canada

. SIDIM: Interior Design Show Montreal),1995, 1998,
2000, 2001, 2002.
. Toronto International Art Show, 2000, 2001.
. Toronto One of a Kind Show, 2000
Photography:
. Victoria Hall of Westmount; Westmount, QC, Canada, 04
to 27 February 2016
. Art Westmount, Victoria Hall, Oct 2019
Exhibitions:

Other:
Poetry and photographs published in France, 2016, 2018, 2019.
Sculpture and poetry in the project of Gallery/Museum of d'Art du Parc of Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada, Spring 2020
Photographs published in the features of the News Papers in 2020
Book of poetry and photographes in publication, France, OCT. 2020

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