Education
- George Brown College, Toronto
Post Graduate Degree, College Teacher Training Program 2016
- Art University of Tehran, Iran
Master of Fine Arts degree (Painting), 1997
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (Painting), 1994
- Azad University / Tehran, Northern Branch, Tehran, Iran
Bachelor of Arts degree (Translation), 1997
Highlights
Master of Fine Arts degree in painting combined with expertise in drawing, new media, and video arts.
Two times successful candidate to receive the Grant from Canada Council for the Arts, Grants to film and video artists, 2015 and Grants to Concept to Realization 2018
Winner of the Grand Prize of the International Dhaka Biennial 2003-2004 for the Video Installation, “Rising up or Falling down.”
Short listed for the MOPCAP Prize (Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize), London, England, 2009
Renown for social-political themes in different artistic projects in painting, drawing, video arts and new media
Grants, Prizes or Awards
Two times successful candidate to receive the Grant from Canada Council for the Arts, Grants to film and video artists, and Concept to Realization, 2015 and 2018
Winner of the Grand Prize of the International Dhaka Biennial 2003-2004 for the Video Installation, “Rising up or falling down.”
Short listed for the MOPCAP prize (Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize), 2009, London, England
Bibliography of critical reviews (Selected):
Books
- Visuele Identitaten Kunstlerische Selbstinszenierungen in der zeitgenossioschen iranischen Videokunst
Julia Allerstorpher PHD, First published in Vienna, Austria, by [Transcrip] Image, 2018
ISBN 978-3-8376-3523-2 - Performing the Iranian State: Visual Culture and Representations of Iranian Identity
Staci Gem Scheiwiller. Performing arts. 260 pages. Anthem Press. Feb. 15 2013.
(Pages 183-185)
Researches and some published Interviews
- Representing the unrepresentable. De/constructive strategies of re/presenting identity in contemporary Iranian Video art on example of Simin Keramati and Shahram Entekhabi
Julia Alerstrofer PHD. . Catholic theological university Linz Upper Austris. 2014.
Articles
- 14 Iranian Artists Explore Just How Complex Immigration And Identity Can Be In a tumultuous time for American foreign policy, these artists offer nuanced views of what it means to be Iranian. And Article by: prievilla Frank, Feb. 2 2017, Huufington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/iranian-contemporary-artists_us_5891f136e4b0c90eff012b31
- Iran’s Hybrids unveiled Women in the Islamic Republic are minding East and West in their battle against the chador as a new exhibition of female artists show
An article by Katherine Butler. The Independant.www.independant.co.uk . 2009
- It’s all about change Snapshots from Tehran contemporary art scene
An article by Ingo Arend. Nafas Magazine. www.universes-in-universe.org . 2011
- The Judge of Other’s Judgment a glance at the works of Simin Keramati
An article by Behrang Samadzadegan. Art Tomorrow Contemporary Art Magazine. No. +3. Winter2011.
- Iran .com, Iranian art today, by Susann Wintch, Dec. 2009, Nafas Magazine. http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2006/iran_com
- Kunstler Unterwegs wege und des Reisens,
Editors: Harald Pechlaner, Elisa Innerhofer{Hrsg.}. An interview by Julia Allerstorfer, eurac research, Published by Nomos, Vienna, Austria, 2018
- Being a woman and working as an artist is political enough, an interview done by Tulika Bhador, Published on the online Magazine On Art And Aesthetics, You can find the interview on the link below:
https://onartandaesthetics.com/2018/04/29/being-a-woman-and-working-as-an-artist-is-political-enough-simin-keramati/
Selected Exhibitions
- 2019 Video art, Group exhibition, White chapel, Curated by Mania Akbari and Amirali Ghasemi, London, England
- 2019 Video installation, Solo exhibition, entitled “The edge of the cloud”, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2019 Painting, Solo exhibition, entitled “Seppuku”, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran,
- 2018 Painting, Group exhibition, represented by Advocartsy, Somart centre for the arts, SanFrancisco, USA
- 2018 Video art, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Agakhan Museum, Toronto Ontario
- 2018 Video art, Group exhibition, Co-curated by Mehraneh Atashi & Sohrab Mohebbi, entitled “only the morning bird treasures the flower garden”, REDCAT, LosAngeles, CA, USA
- 2018 Video art, Group exhibition, Triennale di Milano, represented by ZEIT association, (the project mappe curated by Maria Paola Zedda), Milan Italy
- 2018 Video Installation, Group exhibition, (My resisting Body), Curated by Gudrun Wallenbock, represented by Hinterland, Krongasse 20, Vienna, Austria
- 2017 Painting, Advocartsy’s Art brief III, The Undraped women, Arena Gallery 1, Santa Monica, California, USA
- 2016 Video art, Parallel Vienna 2016, represented by Hinterland, Austria
- 2016 Photo-art and mixed media, Iranian artists forum, Iranian painters’ association, Tehran
- 2015 Video art, Group Exhibition, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
- 2015 Painting, Solo Exhibition, Artclvb Gallery, Richmond Hill, Toronto
