Mahvash Joorabchi

I was born on 29th of April 1950 in Persia. I got my BA in English literature in an American college in 1973. I used to work as a head librarian, cataloging, buying and running the library, in Industrial Management Institute for 7 years and then started teaching English as the second language since 1980 which has continued to the present time. I attended Parvaneh Etemadi’s classes for 3 years and then became Aydin Aghdashloo’s student for 4 years. My teachers are the most known painting teachers in Tehran. But then I became Abdi Asbaghi’s student for 15 years who really led me to my real interest in painting which is forests, dead trees and bark of the trees. I live in Iran, but travel around the world to see more sceneries to take photos from, and to paint them later. I don’t paint exactly like the photos but change them to my interest. I’ve been able to create a style of my own painting the trees. I’ve started painting since 1990, but began painting professionally since 1997. I’ve had over 30 group exhibitions in Iran and one in Hawaii, two in Los Angeles. I’ve exhibited my paintings in several charity clubs, and had individual exhibitions in the most leading galleries in Tehran, Iran.

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Exhibitions:

Six solo exhibitions in the most leading gallery in Iran, Golestan Gallery, in the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007 and 2007-2019.
One solo exhibition in Ava gallery in 2007.
One solo exhibition in Shirin gallery in 2008.
One group exhibition in Servat gallery in 2003.
Sixteen group exhibitions “Sad Assar az Sad Honarmand,” 100 pieces from 100 artists since 1997 –
One group exhibition in Pacific Art Gallery in Kona, Hawaii.
One group exhibition in Boom O Rang gallery in 2009.
Three group exhibitions for some public owned institutes from 2003 – 2004.
Attending on 1st Modern & Contemporary Visual Art Auction 2011.
One group exhibition in Saba gallery 2011.
One group exhibition in Kahane Honarmandan (House of Artists) 2012.
Two group exhibitions in Tara Gallery in LA, USA, 2013 and 2014.
One group exhibition in UN, Iran for Charity exhibition on International day of Food (WFP) 2014.
Two group exhibitions in Haftnegah 7th and 8th and 10th (Seven Looks) Sale of the year in 2014 and 2015, 2017.
Time to Talk, 100 contemporary artists from Iran, Satura Art Gallery, 17–28 Oct. 2015.
Group exhibition run by Kahneh Konarmandan, Pama Society and Golestan Gallery in March 2016.
Discussing and showing a few of my paintings in Artist’s Profiles of Contemporary Art Itineraries of Satura in 2016 (pages 152–153).
One group exhibition in Saba gallery for MS Association in 2017.
One charity exhibition run by MS Association in Hotel Evin 2018.