Born in Iran

Raised in Africa and Russia

Working and residing in Dallas, Texas (July 1996 - present)

Education:

M.A. 2008 Art History, University of North Texas

M.F.A. 2007 Drawing and Painting, Southern Methodist University

B.F.A. 2005 Studio Art and Art History double major, University of North Texas (Magna Cum Laude)

Teaching:

Internships and Residencies:

2009 – Vermont Studio Center, Summer Fellowship

2007 – 2008 – Research Assistant for Dr. Jennifer Way, University of North Texas

2005 – Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas

2004 – Texas Fashion Collection, Denton, Texas

2004 – Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

Grants/Awards:

2007 Katherine Rigsby Dougan Scholarship, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU

2006 Claud Vance Memorial Award, Texas Christian University

2006 Kimbrough Grant, Dallas Museum of Art

2005 Meadows School of the Arts Artistic Scholarship, Southern Methodist University

Solo Exhibitions:

2013 Alan Simmons Art+Design, Dallas, TX

2009 Modal/Motile. Centraltrak Gallery Unit 5, Dallas, TX

2008 Cool as Moon. Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX

2005 Pine Divide. Union Gallery, Denton TX

Group Exhibitions:

2012

Alan Simmons Art+Design Grand Opening Group Exhibition. Curator: Alan Simmons and Lindsey Carneal. Dallas, Texas

2011

Five Points West, Eugene Bender Gallery, Marfa, Texas.

Three to Watch: Bernardo Cantu, Yelizaveta Nersesova, Carlo F. Zinzi. Curator: Cris Worley, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas.

Small Abstract Paintings. Curators: John Pomara and Barry Whistler, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX.

2010

Unraveling Tradition, 516 Arts Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Summer Selections 2.0, HCG Gallery, Dallas, Texas.

Times Twenty Plus 2010 video exhibition, Curator: Mary Benidicto, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, Texas

2008

Geomorph: Rethinking Landscape. Centraltrak Artist Residency, Dallas, Texas

Yelizaveta Nersesova, John Miller, Angela Thornton. Brooke Berman Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2008. Williams Tower, Houston, TX, Juror: Dr. Kevin Salatino, Department Head and Curator of Prints and Drawings, Los Angeles County Musuem of Art, Los Angeles, CA

A Room to Breath. Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas TX

2007

Artist Auditions 2007. Boss Works Gallery, Portland, OR

Parallels. Mockingbird Station Gallery, Dallas, TX

Master of Fine Arts Qualifying Exhibition. Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

31st Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition. Peoria, Illinois, Juror: Judith Brodsky, Professor Emerita, Department of Visual Arts at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Folks From the Meadows, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Coming Together/Pulling Apart. The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX.

2006

9x12 Works on Paper. Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas

Art in the Metroplex 24th Annual Exhibition. University Art Gallery – TCU, Fort Worth, TX, Juror: Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

2005

Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2005. Williams Tower, Houston, TX, Juror: Dominic Molon, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chicago, IL

Amarillo Biannial 600: DRAWING. Amarillo Museum of Art, Curator: James Elaine, Amarillo, Texas

Public Presentations:

2008 Origins, 8th Annual Humanities Forum Conference, University of Pennsylvania: Origins of "Narodnost," definitions of Russianness and East-West hybridity in art

2005 University Scholars Day: Third World Artist: The Performance Art of Alexander Brener