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Shoora Majedian

Sessional Faculty and Continuing Studies Instructor

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Education:

MFA

Bio

Shoora Majedian holds an MFA from ECU, an MA from Tehran University and a Post-baccalaureate in Painting and Drawing from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received a Joseph Plaskett Painting Award and the William and Isabel Pope Artist Residency in Halifax. She has done residencies at Griffin Art Projects, received grants from the Canada Arts Council, BC Arts Council, and The Elizabeth Green Shields Foundation, and has exhibited in Berlin, Los Angeles, Tehran, Chicago, Toronto and Vancouver.

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Research Interests

Shoora’s painting research unfolds against the backdrop of her bi-cultural heritage, where personal and collective memory intersect with spatial and bodily constraints. Her work navigates the complexities of lived experience, probing the shifting boundaries between presence and absence, visibility and obscurity. Through this exploration, she considers the ways in which the body negotiates space, both imposed and self-determined, revealing tensions that are at once physical, psychological and historical.

24/25 Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Visual Arts Studio VAST 400 26/SP

Description

This Senior Studio (Open Studio) course provides students with the opportunity to propose and develop a self-directed body of work. Sections are taught by a singular faculty member or offered in a team-taught model with the option of discipline specificity. Whether through assigned projects, artistic production, research, discussions, writing and critique, students are expected to increase their understanding of the content and context of their process and production as well as their knowledge of contemporary art. Students meet regularly for group seminars as well as in one-to-one tutorials with their instructor(s). Critiques and discussions complement studio production where considerable independent time and maturity is expected.

This course is subject to priority rules; see here.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Visual Arts Studio VAST 410 26/SP

Description

This course provides students with the opportunity to propose and develop a self-directed body of work. Sections are often offered in a team-taught model with an interdisciplinary focus. Through artistic production, research, discussions, writing and critique, students are expected to increase their understanding of the content and context of their process and production as well as their knowledge of contemporary art. Students meet regularly for group meetings as well as in one-to-one tutorials with their instructor(s). Critiques and discussions complement studio production where considerable independent time and maturity is expected.

This course is subject to priority rules; see here.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.