Sixteen years of experience as a Watercolour Artist in Canada, Germany and Iran
Experience with organizing and supervising group exhibitions, and cultural events (Germany and Canada)
Ten years of demonstrated art teaching experience to children and adults
Canadian, European and Middle Eastern art exhibition experience (six solo exhibitions and ten group exhibitions)
Solo Exhibitions
– The Road Less Traveled; from Iran to Germany to Alberta, Gerry Thomas Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2009
– Private Art Show, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2008
– Die Gedanken sind Frei (Thoughts are Free) Public Art Exhibition, Labsal Gallery, Kassel, Germany, 2005
– The Beauty of Life, Public Art Exhibition, Courtyard Marriott Hotel, Kassel, Germany, 2005
– The Kindness of Nature, Public Art Exhibition, University of Kassel, Germany, 2004
– Unnamed Exhibition, Book City (Karname) Tehran, Iran, 2003
Group Exhibitions
– Artist’s Collective Theater Auction, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2016
– Calgary Opera, What Brought Us Here, Arrata Opera Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2012
– APEGGA Annual Conference Summit Awards Gala, TELUS Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2011
– United Way Charity Auction, Imperial Oil Limited, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2010
– Honourable Lindsay Blackett’s 2nd Annual Monday Madness Golf Tournament and Blues, Valley Ridge Golf Club, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2009
– The Power of Community Breakfast with Premier Ed Stelmach and Honourable Lindsay Blackett, Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2009
– Cultural Intersection Art Exhibition, Epcor Centre’s Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2009
– APEGGA Annual Conference Summit Awards Gala, TELUS Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2009
– Charity Gala for the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation, Red and White Club, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2008
– Iran, Anders Gesehen (Iran, A Different Look) Dietrich Bonhoeffer Haus, Kassel, Germany, 2005
A BIT ABOUT ME
Born and raised in beautiful Tehran, Iran, Aryan lived beside the mountains she climbed in her youth. Aryan currently works at a conceptual engineering firm, paints and teaches painting. Aryan is just beginning to establish herself as an artist in Calgary.
