C.V.

Shirin Sahba
Born 1982- New Delhi, India.

Formal Training

2001-2005
Ontario College of Art & Design
Graduate with Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree.
Toronto, Canada.

Solo Exhibitions

2007
Lipman Contemporary Art - Shirin Sahba: New Paintings - Solo Show, Toronto, Ontario.

2007
La Galerie Espace - Mer De Citron, Bateau De Merveilles - Solo Show, Montreal, Ontario.

2005
Lipman Contemporary Art - Day Dreams - Solo Show, Toronto, Ontario.

Group Exhibitions

2005
401 Richmond- Salon 401 - Thesis Exhibition. Curator: Ontario College of Art & Design. Toronto, Ontario.

2003
Le Gallery- Christmas Sale. Curator: Will Kucey. Toronto, Ontario.

2002
OCAD Gallery- Roots Show. Curator: Christine Swiderski. Toronto, Ontario.

2001
Baha’í World Centre- Annual Art Show. Haifa, Israel.

2000
Baha’í World Centre- Annual Art Show. Haifa, Israel.

1999
Baha’í World Centre- Annual Art Show. Haifa, Israel.

Gallery Representation

2005-Now
Louise Lipman Contemporary Art. Toronto, Ontario.

2006-Now
The Nanaimo Art Gallery. Nanaimo, B.C.

2008-Now
Galerie Sorance. Victoria, B.C.

Art Related Work Experience

2002
Receptionist, Assistant to Director, Assistant Archivist - Deitch Projects Gallery. New York, New York.

January 2002-Jan 2003
Visual Arts Instructor - The Children's Theatre Company- Teaching art classes to underprivileged Inner City Kids.
Toronto, Ontario.

April 2001-July 2001
Assistant-Display design for the Báha'í Information Center Exhibition. New Delhi, India.

Summer 2000
Apprenticeship- With established Canadian artist Otto Don Rogers at his private studio. Picton, Ontario.

Spring 2000
Assistant- Display Design for Baha’i International Teaching Center. Haifa, Israel.

Bibliography

October 2008
"The Flower Sellers of Kashmir" painting selected by the Multifaith Action Society to be published in the 2009 Multifaith Calendar. Vancouver, B.C.

October 2006 - 2007
Paintings displayed on the set of CBC Television's The Gill Deacon Show on weekdays. Toronto, Ontario.

November 2006
Interviewed by Vision T.V. for television series Recreating Eden. Vancouver, B.C.

2004-2006
Paintings used for covers of a literary publication - Varqa International Children's Magazine. Vol. I number 3, 4 and 6.Vol. II numbers 3 and 7.
Toronto, Ontario.

2003
Review on artist's "Roots Show" in Toronto's Iranian newspaper-"Shirin Sahba's African Experience", Shahrvand. Vol. 13, no.838. November 14, 2003, p.32.
Toronto, Ontario.

2003
Painting from Roots show displayed in Cinematheque Ontario's Fall 2003 issue. Vol.14, no.1. Fall 2003, p.27. Toronto, Ontario.

Community Experience

May 2000
Volunteer- Baha'i Village Teaching Project.
Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia.

December 2000
Representative of Women’s Rights for Brazil- Model United Nations Conference
St. Petersburg, Russia.

Oct 1999-July 2000
Founder of the Genocide Awareness Society "Asylum", Raising funds for “Doctors Without Borders” and bringing awareness of current affairs and crisis to teenagers.
AIS High School. Tel-Aviv, Israel.

May 1998
Volunteer- Baha'i Village Teaching Project.
Nairobi, Kenya.

Languages

Fluent in English, Arabic, Persian & a working knowledge of Hebrew