Education- Training 

• Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
• Bachelor of Art (Drama-Directing), University of Art, Tehran, Iran
• Bachelor of Art (Visual Art-Painting), Azad University of Art, Tehran, Iran
• Choreography and Contemporary Dance Training, Conservatoire De La Danse, Rejane Douarre, DD Silhol, Paris, France

WORK EXPERIENCE

Photo-Video Installations/ Media Arts/ Digital Performances

• “Passersby_”, Digital Performance, Open Space, Victoria, Canada, March 2026
• “Entropic Fields of Displacement”, Video Installation, VIFF/ SIGNALS, Vancouver, Canada, October 2025
• “Surveillant Pleasure”, Online Video Exhibition, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, June-September 2025
• “An Injury on the Diasporic Imagination”, Photo Exhibition, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, Canada, April-June 2025
• “Entropic Fields of Displacement”, Video Installation, IDFA DocLab, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nov 2024
• “Game [4 Amsterdam]”, Digital Performance, IDFA DocLab, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nov 2024
• “Entropic Fields of Displacement”, Video Installation, VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver, Canada, Nov 2024
• “Augmented Flesh”, Work in Progress, Dance film, residency at Left of Main, Vancouver, Canada, starting 2024
• “<2-i-love>“, Work in Progress, Digital Film, Vancouver, Canada, Feb 2020 – Present
• “Game [3 Berlin/Tehran]“, Digital Performance, Volksbühne Theatre, Berlin, Germany, Dec 2023
• “Game [2 Vancouver]“, Digital Performance, VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver, Canada, May 2022
• “Winter/ Interior/ A Doll’s House”, Digital Performance, Iranshahr Theater Hall, Tehran, Iran, Feb 2020
• “Game [Tehran]“, Digital Performance, Aliha Gallery, Tehran, Iran, September 2019
• “Migrations”, Video, Collaboration with Emily Neufeld, Window Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, Sep 2017
• “The Closed Circuit”, Digital Performance, Mostaghel Theater, Tehran, Iran, Feb 2017   
• “Monitoring [Tehran]”, Video Installation, Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition (TADAEX 04), Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran, Sep 2014     
• “Monitoring [A Doll’s House]”, Video Installation and Live Performance, Studio T, Goldcorp Center for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, Oct 2012  
• “Charisma”, Dance Performance, PUSH Festival- PushOff, Vancouver, Canada, Cultch Lab, Feb 2012
• “adult’s room”, Digital Video Performance, Studio T, Goldcorp Center for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, March 2011      
• “Barego”, Video made for Rob Kitsos’ Quartet, Firehall Arts Centre, Dancing on the Edge Festival, Vancouver, Canada, July 2011
• “Brownian Motion”, Video, Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada, May 2010
• “Cityless “, Video, March 2010
• “Daily Monologues”, Video, February 2010         

Teaching Experience

• Qualifying Facultyof Arts, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC, Sep 2023 – Present
• Guest Lecturer, Emily Carr University of Art+Design, Vancouver, BC, 2024
• Guest Lecturer, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, 2022
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Cinema and Theatre, Tehran University of Art, Tehran, Iran, 2013 – 2021
• Instructor, “Digital Performance Making”, Barg Institute of Culture and Art, Tehran, Iran, 2017 – 2020
• Instructor, “Intermediality in Performance”, Barg Institute of Culture and Art, Tehran, Iran, 2017 – 2020
• Instructor, “Acting”, Bamdad House, Tehran, Iran,  2016 – 2020
• Instructor, “Butoh Dance”, Bamdad House, Tehran, Iran,  2016 – 2020
• Instructor, “Contemporary Dance”, Bamdad House, Tehran, Iran,  2016 – 2020
• Teacher Assistant for FPA 111, “Issues in Fine and Performing Arts”, School for the Contemporary Arts, School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, BC, January- April 2012
• Teacher Assistant for FPA 285, “Composition/Collaboration”, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, September- December 2011
• Teacher Assistant for FPA 111, “Issues in Fine and Performing Arts”, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, January- April 2011
• Dance and Theatre, Ross Road Elementary School, North Vancouver, BC, January – April 2010
• Movements in Experimental Theatre, “Jeunesse et Culture” Association, Paris, France, Sep-Nov 2005
• Butoh Dance, “Jeunesse et Culture” Association, Paris, France, Sep-Nov 2005

Leading Work Shops

• “Expand Your Executive Ideas!”, Interdisciplinary Workshop, Tehran, Iran, 2017 – 2020
• “Performer’s Mind and Body”, Tehran, Iran, 2018 – 2020
• “Rasaboxes”, Richard Schechner’s Rasaboxes, Tehran, Iran, 2016 – 2020
• “Contemporary Dance”, Bamdad International House, Tehran, Iran, 2015 – 2017
• “Wandering in the City, Tehran around Neauphle-le-Chateau area”, Hosting by ‘New Media Society’ and ‘Aaran Projects Gallery’, Tehran, Iran, Aug 2015
• “Contemporary Dance”, Molavi Hall, Tehran, Iran, Jun 2007
• “Movement for Women [Restraints and Solutions]“, Hosted by Leev Theatre Group, Women Theatre Festival, Tehran, Iran, May 2007
• “Butoh Dance”, Shahr Theatre, Tehran, Iran, Jun-Jul 2006, Jul-Aug 2005
• “Butoh Dance”, Hosted by Jeunesse et Culture Association, City Council of Paris, France, Sep-Nov 2005
• “Contemporary Theater in Iran -Techniques and Visions”, Hosted by Jeunesse et Culture Association, City Council of Paris, France, Sep-Nov 2005            

Awards/ Grants / Residencies / Conferences

• Panel Discussion: MENA Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, January 2026 
• Artist Talk: Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, BC, June 2025 
• IDFA Festival: Award for Entropic Fields of Displacement, Digital Storytelling, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 2024
• Artist Talk: VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver, BC, November 2024
• Artist in Residence: Plastic Orchid Factory, Left of Main, Vancouver, BC, August–December 2024
• Artist Talk: Theatre and Film Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, April 2024
• Phil Lind Multicultural Artist Residency: Theatre and Film Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, January–April 2024
• Artist Talk: Faculty of Arts, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC, November 15, 2023
• Explore and Create Grant – Concept to Realization Component: Canada Council for the Arts, Vancouver, BC, 2024
• Artist Talk: Volksbühne Theatre, Berlin, Germany, December 2023
• Artist Talk: In Conversation with Amirali Ghasemi: Room for Doubt, Berlin, Germany, December 2023
• Project Assistance for Media Artists Grant: British Columbia Arts Council, Vancouver, BC, 2023 
• Explore and Create Grant – Concept to Realization Component: Canada Council for the Arts, Vancouver, BC, 2022
• Explore and Create Grant – Research and Creation Component: Canada Council for the Arts, Vancouver, BC, 2021
• Panel Discussion: Performance Art Institutions and Audiences [What Communities Want? Towards the Diversity of Collaboration], LIVE International Performance Art Biennale, Vancouver, BC, November 4–6, 2021
• Residency: Battery Opera, Vancouver, BC, July 2021
• Project Assistance for Visual Artists Grant: British Columbia Arts Council, Vancouver, BC, 2021
• Explore and Create Grant – Research and Creation Component: Canada Council for the Arts, Vancouver, BC, 2020
• Panel Discussion: Intermedial Theater, Reconnect Festival, Tehran, Iran (virtual), March 29, 2020
• Elsie Jang Graduate Fellowship in Contemporary Arts: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, September 2011
• Residency: The Wooster Group, One Month, New York, NY, October 2011
• Graduate International Research Travel Award: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, March 2011
• Graduate Fellowship: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, September 2010
• Professional Development Travel Grant: Canada Council for the Arts, Vancouver, BC, March 2009
• Residency: Théâtre de l’Epi d’Or, Three Months, Paris, France, 2005

Community Involvement

• Jury Member, VIFF, Vancouver, BC, 2024
• Board Member, LIVE International Performance Art Biennale, Vancouver, BC, January 2022- January 2026
• Artist talk moderator, PUSH, Vancouver, BC, 2024