BIOGRAPHY
Mozhdeh Zandieh-Grayson is an Iranian Dubai based multidisciplinary visual artist and art educator awarded an MA in Fine Arts with distinction (2020) from the UK and holds BA in Graphic Design from Tehran. Her works focus on our human existence concerning problematic social and individual subjects in communication. She is fascinated by the invention of forms and the formation of materials in the process of understanding and representing actuality versus reality. Her works included but are not limited to mixed-media sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography and digital art. Mozhdeh's first exhibition was in a biennale in 2014 in Paris and since, she has exhibited, nominated, featured, and participated in several international art shows, events, contests and awards.
"From a theoretical, autobiographical and phenomenological map, my practice is a try to reach us within us. When I make art, I don't think about art. I think about us—humans. How we see and how we think. Perception is everything and that forms in interrogation, recollections and contemplation in the most ordinaries. I feel art is my shortcut for the closeness of thinking by making, aims and hopes to create visual reflections for feeling and change. After all, art has always been made from change and for change. Art is a verb!"
CV
Born in Tehran, Iran
Live in Dubai
Studied in the UK
EDUCATION
Completed three years of postgraduate master's degree in Fine Arts with distinction from UCA (University for Creative Arts), 2020 - MFA
Graduated as a Graphic Designer from Soore Art University of Tehran, Iran in 2001- BA
Complete four years of Visual Arts and Architecture at the School of Arts, Tehran, Iran, 1997
ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Finalist Artist, Rove Art Prize — Dubai, UAE 2020
Featured Artist, Al Tamimi Group international digital publication —Dubai 2020
Artist nominee, Emerging Artist Award —Dubai, UAE 2020
Finalist artist, ART EXPO New York Contest —France 2019
Selected artist for digital installation at DIFC by Emerging Artist Award— Dubai, UAE 2018
Finalist artist, CFA Artist of the Year Award —France 2018
Artist of the Week by Emerging Scene —Dubai, UAE 2018
Shortlisted Artist, 4th International Artist Awards —Dubai, UAE 2016
Member of artists' Committee at International Award of Contemporary Art "ARTPROTAGONIST" —Italy 2015
Featured artist, Next Step Biennale —Paris, France 2014
Winer designer of Creative Design Contest —Tehran, Iran 2001
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibition - Total Art— Dubai, UAE 2021
Made in Tashkeel - The 11th edition— Dubai, UAE 2021
Featured Artist - World Art Dubai— Dubai, UAE 2021
Digital Installation at DIFC Art Nights — Dubai, UAE 2020
Nominee Artists Show, World Art Dubai— Dubai, UAE 2020
Group show, No-Show Exhibition, UK, 2020
Group show, Total Art Gallery, Quoz Arts Fest — Dubai, UAE 2019
Installation at DIFC Art Nights — Dubai, UAE 2019
Digital installation at DIFC — Dubai, UAE 2018
Solo show at Dubai Art Fair, World Art Dubai— Dubai, UAE 2015
Group show, Art Plus Gallery —Dubai, UAE 2015
Featured Artist - Next Step Biennale —Paris, France 2014
Group show, Art Plus Gallery — Dubai, UAE 2014
TEXTS AND RESEARCHES
Making A Seeing ebook ( a photographic observation in the poetry of images and imaginations) — 2020 -21
Essay Untouched: Unheard - Hands, Eyes, Hearts, Skins (research study in language memory, human connection and communication in the philosophy of Border) — 2020
Essay Change of Change (research study in the phenomenology of Change based on Time and Memory) — 2019
Essay Between Two Walls (research study in Memories of Forgotten Memories from science to art) — 2018
PUBLICATIONS
Exhibition Catalog, Made in Tashkeel - The 11th edition— Dubai, UAE — 2021
Photo eBook, Making A Seeing — 2021
Exhibition Catalog, World Art Dubai, Dubai-UAE — 2021
Exhibition Catalog, NO-SHOW, UK — 2020
Law Update Magazine, DIFC-UAE — 2020
The Best of 2016, International Emerging Artist Awards book — 2016
Exhibition Catalog, World Art Dubai, Dubai-UAE — 2015
Exhibition Catalog, Next Step, France-Paris — 2014
Exhibition Catalog, 2014, Window I, Dubai-UAE — 2014
Exhibition Catalog, 2014, Art Plus, Dubai-UAE — 2014
PROFESSIONS & EXPERIENCES
Member of Tashkeel Studio — Dubai, UAE 2021
Art Educator, Dubai, 2014 - Current
Art Director at AUDIO UAE, Dubai, 2020 - Current
Creative Manager at Cooper Searle, London, UK, 2017 - 2020
Fine Arts Educator at Soul Art Center, Dubai, UAE, 2016 - 2017
Creative designer for Yahlive advertising Campaign, Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2013 -2014
Art Director and Studio Manager at Provision Media, Dubai, UAE in 2011- 2013
Graphic Designer and Brand Coordinator at AVA, Dubai, UAE 2007 - 2009
Co-Founder and Designer at Line and Design House, Tehran, Iran 2002 - 2006
Designer and illustrator for Institute of the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, Annual Children's Book Festival —Tehran, Iran 2002
Art Teacher - Elementary school, Tehran, Iran, 2001- 2002