Thursday, March 5, 2015
4:30-5:30PM
Room 125, Art Building

Shiva Ahmadi received her BFA from Azad Univeristy, Tehran, in 1998 and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2005. Her solo exhibitions include Reinventing the Poetics of Myth at Leila Heller Gallery in 2010; Throne at College of Wooster Art Museum in 2012, Apocalyptic Playland at Leila Heller Gallery in 2013; and solo shows at Art Dubai in 2010 and 2012. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Art in America, Art news, Canvas magazine, The Boston Globe, Contemporary 21 and Modern painter magazine. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, the MOCA Los Angeles, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Asia Society Museum, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell and The Farjam Collection (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) among others.