Naghmeh Sharifi

Naghmeh Sharifi is an Iranian / Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal since 2009. She holds a BA in Visual Arts and one in Psychology from the University of British Columbia. In 2018 Sharifi completed her MFA degree at Concordia University. Her work has been exhibited in Iran, Germany, France, Italy, Mexico, United States, Canada and Macedonia. In Montréal, she has presented her work at Conseils des arts de Montréal (2015), Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (2017), the MAI (2018) and the Phi Centre (2020) among other sites. Sharifi was the recipient of the Impressions Residency grant at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Phi Centre’s Parallel Lines Residency and the RBC Maison d’Ariane residency. Formally trained as a painter, in recent years Sharifi’s choice of medium has expanded in response to her transforming subject matters to include, print, photo and time-based media.

With a practice in multimedia art, Naghmeh Sharifi has been involved with Ada X since 2022 and has experience in graphic design, digital animation, and video editing. After completing an artist residency, she taught several workshops through Allô Ada and facilitated an event in our BYO-X series for members. Naghmeh has also had the opportunity to contribute to our board of directors, and attend the Video Mapping and 3D Modelling professional training workshops.

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