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Parastoo Mahmoudi

Artist member since 2019
TORONTO , Ontario

Artist Bio Parastoo Mahmoudi is a Canadian-Iranian artist who lives in Toronto. She started practicing her primary drawing skills in 1996. She studied the human body's anatomy and subsequently portraits by drawing and sculpting life models and experimenting with different media and styles since 1996. Parastoo is a Life-Studies major and Drawing and Painting minor at OCAD University. She has exhibited internationally, primarily in Tehran, Dubai, and Toronto. Exhibition: 2021: PathoGEN/Error, "Covid 19 Responsive Art", virtual group exhibition 2020: Canadian Women's Foundation, Sheraton Hotel, Toronto 2020: Feminist Artist Festival, OCAD University, Toronto 2019: 10 Sec High-Tension animation, 2019 Anijam competition, 13th annual TAIS Animation showcase, Royal Cinema, Toronto 2017: Solo Exhibition "Drown in Characters" Public Library, East York, Toronto 2014- 2015 and 2016: Group Exhibitions at the Opera House Toronto 2011: Courtyard Gallery, Solo Exhibition "Faces" in Dubai 2005: Arta Gallery, Solo Exhibition in Tehran 2004: Baran Gallery, Solo Exhibition "Chair Collection" in Tehran Media: https://gulfnews.com/uae/exploring-facial-expressions-through-art-1.841769

Work

Background
  • Parastoo Mahmoudi
  • 32" x 32"
  • $1670 buy
#collage #narrative #encaustic #drywall paste
Memory landscape
  • Parastoo Mahmoudi
  • 16" x 20"
  • $980 buy
#shellac #memories and landscape #abstract #encaustic
Suffocated voice
  • Parastoo Mahmoudi
  • 12" x 21"
  • $700 buy
#abstract #ripped canvas #encaustic #photo transfer
Exit 2020
  • Parastoo Mahmoudi
  • 30" x 90"
  • $3500 buy
#covid-19 #pandemic #isolation
Wonderland
  • Parastoo Mahmoudi
  • 36" x 28"
  • $3200 buy
#expressionism
Forgotten Respect
  • Parastoo Mahmoudi
  • 18" x 27" x 1"
  • $2100 buy
#text writting #femenism #figurative painting #female body #avesta
Discomfort
  • Parastoo Mahmoudi
  • 48" x 48"
  • $1700 buy
#portrait #face expression #figure #expressive painting #expressive portrait
My Identity
  • Parastoo Mahmoudi
  • 24" x 36" x 1.7"
  • $2500 buy
#face expressions #self portrait #copper wire #figurative #mirror
Memories
  • Parastoo Mahmoudi
  • 24" x 24" x 1.7"
  • $1500 buy
#story board #fear #pain #abstract #texting
Memories
  • Parastoo Mahmoudi
  • 12" x 24" x 1.7"
  • $1700 buy
#pain #fear #narrative #untold #story board

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Select Past Exhibitions
2022

OCAD University, Toronto
GradEx107

2022

Gallery 1313, Toronto
Proximities

2021

Virtual, University of Art & Design (Sagamihara, Japan) and OCAD University (Toronto, Canada)
Gatherings

2021

Virtual Exhibition, Collaborative Project (COIL) between OCAD U and SUNY Geneseo
Looking Out While Looking In

2021

virtual Exhibition, Covid 19 Responsive Art
PathoGEN/Error

2020

Canadian Women's Foundation, Sheraton Hotel, Toronto, CA
My Identity

Press
2011

Gulf News, United Arab Emirate
Exploring Facial Expressions through art

Education

Ontario College of Art and Design
Major in Cross-Disciplinary Art/Life-Studies and Minor Drawing and Painting

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