Curriculum Vitae | Shirin Fahimi
Shirin Fahimi is an Iranian-Canadian, based in Toronto ON.
Education
> Master of Fine Arts in Intermedia (Video, Performance and Electronic Arts) Concordia University, 2017.
> Bachelor of Fine Arts in Media Art Slade School of Fine Arts (University College London), 2013, Classification: 2:1
> Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, University of Tehran (College of Fine Arts), 2007 -interrupted.
Certificate
Interaction Design and Prototyping for XR | University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies,July-Sept 2022
XR Development with Unity | University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
User Experience Design, Continuing Education, York University, Toronto, Canada, 2020.
Residencies
2022 The Ray Ferris Creative Tech Springboard art Artscape Daniels Launchpad, July-Sept 2022, Toronto, CA.
2022 BAiR Emerging Winter 2022 Residency at the Banff Centre from 21 Feb - 26 March 2022, Banff, Calgary, Canada.
2021 Akademie Schloss Solitude Web Residencies No. 14, »Post-Doom« curated by Johanna Hedva. January 15th- February 23rd, 2021.
2019 BAiR Summer 2019 in Visual Arts program at the Banff Centre from July 22 – August 23, 2019, Canada.
2016 Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Individuation, Import Projects, Berlin, Germany.
2016 New Media Society, Tehran, Iran.
Grants/Scholarships
2024 OAC Exhibition Assistance 2024
2022 Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Across Canada Travel
2022 Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization
2022 OAC Chalmers Professional Development Projects
2022 OAC Multi and Inter-Arts Project
2022 OAC Exhibition Assistance 2021-2022
2022 the Jarislowsky Foundation for the BAiR Emerging Winter 2022 Residency
2021 Akademie Schloss Solitude Web Residencies No. 14, »Post-Doom« Scholarship, curated by Johanna Hedva. January 15th- February 23rd, 2021.
2020 Arts Response Initiative: Project Grants for Individuals – October 20, 2020, Ontario Arts Council
2019 BAiR Summer 2019 in Visual Arts program Scholarship, at the Banff Centre from July 22 – August 23, 2019, Canada.
Exhibitions / Screening
2021 “Collective Offerings”, Curated by 2021 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators: Mitra Fahkrashrafi and Vince Rozario, artists: Meech Boakye, Shirin Fahimi, LAL (Rosina Kazi and Nicholas Murray), Jessica Karuhanga, and Shaista Latif, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.
2020 “Breaching Towards Other Future” performance in collaboration with Morehshin Allahyari, Part of Where Do You Want Ghosts to Reside? Curated by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Azin Seraj, at CounterPulse, San Francisco, USA.
2019 “Breaching Towards Other Futures” performance in collaboration with Morehshin Allahyari, part of Refiguring the Future conference, sponsored by Eyebeam and Refresh, Knockdown Center, New York, USA.
2018 “Taklif: Ideas of femininity”, artist /curator in collaboration with Shima Assa and Setare Arashloo and Taklif Collective, Fofa Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
2018 “Zanan Magazine”, Taklif Collective as part of Utopia as Method group exhibition, Regart, Lévis, Canada.
2018 “Breaching Towards Other Futures” performance in collaboration with Morehshin Allahyari, at Floating University, Berlin, Germany.
2018 “Breaching Towards Other Futures” performance in collaboration with Morehshin Allahyari, Part of the performance art series Refiguring the Future, The Rubin Museum, NY, USA.
2017 “Tarigh-o-Shekl”, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Concordia MFA gallery, Montreal, Canada.
2017 “Tarigh-o-Shekl”, PERPLEXITY ALLOY – آلیاژ بُهت, Vidéographe and Dazibao, Montreal, Canada.
2017 “Tarigh-o-Shekl”, Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Middlesbrough, UK.
2016 “Repel”, Group Exhibition, Individuation, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg- Platz, Berlin, Germany.
2016 “Analogy Between Talisman and Diagram”, Performance Invocations, as part of The Incantation of the Disquieting Muse, On Divinity, Supra-Realities or the Exorcisement of Witchery, A project by SAVVY Contemporary and the Goethe-Institut South Africa, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany. 2016 “On Diagram Making”, Studio visit and talk, New Media Society, Tehran, Iran.
2015 “The Apparatus of Desubjectification”, Group Exhibition, IGNITION 11, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
2015 “Refusal Acts”, Group Screening, Meeting U.H.O, Berlin, Germany.
2014 “ Knowledge How/Knowledge That”, as part of Limited Access Festival 5 “Part of Me” section, Vista Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2013 “Refusal Acts”, Limited Access Festival 4 “Part of Me” section, Aran Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2013 “Face it”, Group Exhibition, The Strange Impression of Looking at Things for the First Time, Art Pavilion, London, UK.
Publications
2022 “O Lone Traveller” Shirin Fahimi, Melika Hashemi,addresses themes of border-passing, surveillance, and self-censorship in a time of urgency that demands appropriate response and awareness. Publication Studio Guelph
2022 “Friend” issue, Pfeil Magazine, Montez Press, London, UK. (upcoming in Sept)
2022 Featured at Akimbo’s Hit List.
2020 “Oracular Visions in the Darkness of the Night” Publication, Editors: Federica Brigo, Onur Çimen, Elias Kautsky, Ellen Klintenberg Gedda, Published by Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University. Contributions by: Federica Brigo, Federica Bueti, Onur Çimen, Shirin Fahimi, Thomas Hill, Elias Kautsky, Ellen Klintenberg Gedda, Tor-Finn Malum Fitje, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Sinziana Ravini, Iris Smeds’
2020 “Where do you want ghosts to reside?” Catalogue, Curated by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Azin Seraj, Southern Exposure Gallery, designed by Sming Sming Books publication, San Francisco, USA.
2019 Taklif: Ideas of Femininity contribution at Syphon 5.1: My Life is Not Your _______.
Contributors: Hiba Ali, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Anique Jordan, Robin Alex McDonald, Harrison Saulnier, Taklif: تکلیف, Devin West, Amy Wong, Kimberly Wong, Florence Yee Edited by Henry Heng Lu and Anne-Sophie Grenier
2018 Taklif, “What is Critical Curating” RACAR, 43.2, Universities Art Association of Canada.
2017 “On Talismanic Diagrams”, part of the “The Incantation of The Disquieting Muse: on Divinity, Supra-Realities or the Exorcisement of Witchery” by Savvy Contemporary The Laboratory of Form-Ideas.
2016 “Archive Acts” in Collaboration with Atelier Céladon, Diaspora in Times, Studio XX