Education
2009 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL
Master of Fine Arts in Film Video New Media
2007 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
BFA in Photography
Curatorial Experience
2010 Sex Power and Labour, Co Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
Push and Play, Nightingale theater, Chicago, IL
2009 Samad: Iranian Short Films, Nightingale Theater, Chicago, IL
Co-curator, SAIC Student Art Show, Bridge Art Fair, New York, NY
2008 Chicago Short Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Electric Lights, Nightingale Theater, Chicago, IL
2009 Australian Cinémathèque, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia
Festival du Cinéma de Paris, Paris, France
Chicago Short Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Golden Gate Fiction and Documentary Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Antimatter Film festival, Victoria, Canada
2010 Asian American Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
A Light at The End of The Tunnel, Scope Basel Pavilion, Switzerland
Chicago Short Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Short Story Film Showcase, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
Creation, Destruction, Chaos, High Concept Laboratories, Chicago, IL
Cut In Cut Out, Sullivan Galleries, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2011 Contemporary Collage of North American Artists, Poznan, Poland
2012 Rencontres Internationales Festival, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Labrary Space, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada
Iranian Women Studies Foundation Conference, screening and presentation,
MIT, Cambridge, MA
2013 Rencontres Internationales Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
video-dumbo 2013, EyeBeam, New York, NY
art:screen, Black Box, Gislaveds Konsthall, Gislaved, Sweden
Surveilling the Naked City, Atopia Gallery, Oslow, Norway
Limited Access Four Festival, Araan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
11th Annual Boston Cinema Census, Brattle Theater, Cambridge, MA
2015 15th Annual Boston Cinema Census, Somerville Theater, Somerville, MA
Selected Festivals and Screenings
Interpretations of the Actual, Thessaloniki Center for Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
MassArt Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Dubai Community Theater and Art Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Another Experiment by Women, Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY
A Short Introdction to Experimental Film and Video, People's Library, Cincinnati, OH
Cairo Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt
Surveiling the Naked City, California State University, Long Beach, CA