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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.

Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Foundation Studio Courses FNDT 150 27/SP

Description

This course introduces fundamental colour theory and its application for painting. Instruction includes the preparation of painting surfaces, exploration of materials and methods, and an understanding of the discipline in relation to contemporary and historical practice.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Painting PNTG 312 27/SP

Description

Focuses on painting the human body. Students develop critical and technical painting skills through projects that examine subjective and objective strategies for painting the human body. By producing a series of paintings students learn to apply a variety of acrylic and oil painting techniques. Through this process students develop their abilities to observe and describe. The genre is examined from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Painting PNTG 200 26/FA

Description

This studio course will familiarize students with techniques and concepts in painting practice and discourse. Students acquire a technical grounding through the study of colour, composition, paint application, preparation of painting supports, and properties of paint. Assigned projects will focus on observational painting exercises and on a range of other contemporary and historical approaches to representational painting. Classes combine technical workshops, readings, discussions, and individual and group critiques. A diverse range of painting histories and practices will illustrate and contextualize course content.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.