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Presentation title:
“De’VIA”
Bio:
Maryam Hafizirad is an international award-winning Deaf Canadian Persian painter and sculptor. She is a freelance visual artist, art curator, teacher, mentor and advocate for Deaf artists. A graduate of Isfahan University of Fine Arts (2002), and named “Most competent art student”, Kashan University Isfahan, Iran (2002-2004) her solo and group exhibitions have been featured in Iran, China, Germany, Malaysia, India, Canada and the United States.
Maryam’s Persian classical early works were dark in subject and colour, with women’s faces and bodies forbidden. When she moved to Malaysia and settled in Canada, her work transformed. She began painting using Persian and Deaf View Image Art (De’VIA) metaphors with strong contrasting colours and textures incorporating Deaf experience and values. With her mixed media oil, acrylic and crushed, melted, coloured glass, she uses strong colours to paint pomegranates symbolizing hidden love released, fish in water representing sincere human beings in her silent world of pure visual beauty and birds embodying her newfound freedom as a Deaf woman in this country. Maryam’s work has evolved to incorporate De’VIA sculptures, large Deaf identity installation art and new visual animation media arts.
She has studied sculpture with award winning sculptor Keyvan Fehri, master in ancient Persian firing techniques. Maryam’s installation sculpture, De’VIA: Seeds from Within was selected to be featured at Co-Motion Festival Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, 2022. Her painting and sculpture has been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions around the globe and she has been successful in obtaining numerous grants and awards for her visual art.
Because of her success in grant writing having obtained over 10 grants, she has been asked to co-teach grant writing with Dr. Anita Small, arts grant writer, to Deaf newcomer artists. Their students obtained 95% success in grant writing. Maryam has also served as assistant set, makeup and costume designer alongside award winning Ken Mackenzie, President, Associated Designers of Canada for The Black Drum signed musical 2019, Canada. It was selected as featured performance for Clin D’Oeil Festival, France where she was lead make-up designer. Maryam was asked to collaborate with University of Toronto on a Sustainable pARTnerships project 2022 in which she collaborated to create an animated video using her visual art. This partnership has been extended to 2024. Maryam Hafizirad is recognized as among the first Deaf Canadian art curators. She has an upcoming ceramic exhibition program based on her sculptural installation, Contours of My Life at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), 2024.
Instagram: @m.hafizirad
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Titre de la présentation :
«De’VIA»
Biographie :
Elle a étudié la sculpture avec le sculpteur primé Keyvan Fehri, maître des anciennes techniques de cuisson persanes. L’installation sculpturale de Maryam, « De’VIA : Seeds from Within, » a été sélectionnée pour être présentée au Co-Motion Festival Harbourfront Centre, à Toronto, en 2022. Ses peintures et sculptures ont fait l’objet d’expositions individuelles et collectives dans le monde entier et elle a réussi à obtenir de nombreuses subventions et récompenses pour son art visuel.
Comme elle a réussi à obtenir plus de dix subventions, on lui a demandé de co-enseigner la rédaction de subventions avec la Dre Anita Small, rédactrice de subventions artistiques, à des artistes Sourds nouvellement arrivés. Leurs étudiants ont obtenu 95 % de réussite dans la rédaction des demandes de subvention. Maryam a également été assistante à la conception des décors, des maquillages et des costumes aux côtés de Ken Mackenzie, président de l’Associated Designers of Canada, lauréat d’un prix pour la comédie musicale « The Black Drum, » signée 2019, Canada. Le spectacle a été sélectionné pour le festival Clin D’Oeil, en France, où elle a été cheffe maquilleuse.
Maryam a été invitée à collaborer avec l’Université de Toronto dans le cadre d’un projet « Sustainable pARTnerships » 2022, dans lequel elle a collaboré à la création d’une vidéo d’animation utilisant son art visuel. Ce partenariat a été prolongé jusqu’en 2024. Maryam Hafizirad est reconnue comme l’une des premières conservatrices d’art canadiennes Sourdes. Elle présente un programme d’exposition de céramiques basé sur son installation sculpturale, «Contours of My Life», au Musée royal de l’Ontario (ROM), en 2024.
Instagram : @m.hafizirad