Biography
Homeira Mortazavi
Mortazavi’s visual narratives give voice to a feminist worldview. Her figurative art deals with issues of self-identity, belonging, women’s experience and the relation between human and nature, focusing on women and flowers in particular. In her painting, the female body does not represent the subject of desire, much less a sexual object, rather it constitutes an instrument of liberation, a means of resistance, and a redoubt against the commodification of women. Mortazavi has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Canada, the United States, France and Argentina. She currently lives and works in Montreal, where she also teaches painting and drawing to adults. “I am intrigued by the beauty of the human form and nature, both truthful as they are in their nakedness and I translate that into my art”
Homeira
Homeira MORTAZAVI
+1 514- 938 8066 | mhomeira@gmail.com
Education – Études et formations
2002 MAed, Concordia University - Master of Art Education, Montreal, Canada.
1994 BFA Studio Art, Concordia University - Bachelor of fine Arts, Montreal, Canada.
Painting Exhibitions – Expositions de peinture
2021 Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, USA, International Biennial Portrait competition, Apr 29- June 26
2021 33 Contemporary, Chicago, USA, The Portrait, Oct15- Nov 15, Group show
2021 33 Contemporary, Chicago, USA, Curves, Sept 5- Oct 1st, Group show
2021 33 Contemporary, Chicago, USA, International Women’s Day Postcard Pop Up Show, March 8- 15, virtual exhibition via Artsy,
2020 33 Contemporary, Chicago, USA, The Art of The Nude, virtual exhibition, Group show
2020 Brota Residencia, Émerveillement/Wonder/ Preguntarse, Virtual exhibition
2020 33 Contemporary, Chicago, USA, Shelter, June 15-Dec 31, Group show
2020 33 Contemporary, Chicago, USA, Looking up Looking forward, virtual exhibition via Artsy
2020 Galeria Adriana Budich, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Woman’s day group show
2020 Brota Residensia & Canadian Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Eco Nexus, solo
2020 33 Contemporary, Chicago, light correlations, Feb3-29, Group show
2019 Musée Beaulne, Coaticook, Canada, Symbiose retrouvée, Solo
2019 Artothèque, Pointe-Claire, Canada, Group show
2018 Georges Laoun, Montreal, Canada, Printemps Floral, Solo
2018 Galerie Mekic, Montreal, Canada, Group show
2017 Galerie de la Ville, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada, Lattices and Interstices, Group show
2017 La Maison Verte, Marnay-sur-Seine, France, Correspondance
2017 Nowruzland Library, Montreal, Canada, De l’âme nue
2017 Galerie Le 1040, Montreal, Canada, Femme entre ciels et terres, Group show
2016 Centre d’Art E.K. Voland, Montreal, Canada, Feminine Insight, Duo show
2016 Gallery at Victoria Hall, Westmount, Canada, Flowers
2015 Gallery Seyhoun, Los Angeles, USA, Two Views, One Essence, Duo show
2014 Gallery at Victoria Hall, Westmount, Canada, Art Westmount, Group show
2013 Gallery Lamoureux Ritzenhoff, Montreal, Canada, Ode to Sacred Feminine, Group show
2013 RendezVous Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada, Wings of Color
2011 RendezVous Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada, New Beginnings
2010 Festival d’art de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, FIMA
2009 Gallery at Victoria Hall, Westmount, Canada, A New Beginning
2008 Expo Art Montréal, Place Bonaventure, Montreal, Canada
2008 Symposium de peinture de la Mauricie, Centre des Arts de Shawinigan, Shawinigan, Canada
2007 MESA Symposium, Palais des Congrès, Montréal, Canada
2006 Gallery at Victoria Hall, Westmount, Canada, Inside Out
1996 Musée des religions du monde, Nicolet, Canada, O NOM D’ALAH, Group show
Residencies – Résidence
2020 Brota Art Residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 Pays’Art Art Residency, Marney-sur-Seine, France.
Awards – Prix
1999 Recipient of The Stanley Mills Prize, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Trainings – Formations
2016 Grand Central Atelier, New York, USA: Intensive workshop in portrait painting;
2015 Atelier Bruno Capolongo, Toronto, Canada: Intensive workshop in Encaustic painting;
2013 Moulin de Perrot, Academy of Fine Arts, Paris, France: Workshop in Abstract Painting (with Peter Casagrande) and Painting with palette knife (with Jean-Michel Cavalli);
2008-09 École de Joaillerie de Montréal, Montreal, Canada: Design and fabrication of jewelry;
2003-05 Atelier Ijubomir Ivankovic, Montreal, Canada: the old masters technique in oil;
2002 Mosaica, Montreal, Canada: Attended a workshop on Mosaic art
2000 Dawson Collage, Montreal, Canada: Photoshop;
1997 Two workshop seminars with John D. Munro, Montreal, Canada: Encaustic Painting;