azadeh.elmizadeh@gmail.com
Education
2020 MFA, University of Guelph, CA
2016 BFA, Drawing and Painting, OCAD University, Toronto, CA
2010 BFA, Visual Communication and Graphic Design, University of Tehran, Iran
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2025 Weight of Light (w. Arman Azar), The Plumb, Toronto, CA
2025 Timekeepers, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2025 How to Cut a Pomegranate (w. Hiram Latorre), Tara Downs, New York, US
2023 The Inexpressible is Contained (w. Charlotte Edey), Sea View, Los Angeles, US
2023 Madame, Madame (w. Laura Berger), Tube Culture Hall, Milan, IT (curated by Domenico de Chirico)
2022 Sister Seeds, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2022 Soft Smoke, (with Ella Gonzales) Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, CA
2020 Subtle Bodies, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
Group Exhibitions
2025 After Image, Alexander Berggruen, New York, US
2025 Instrumentals, Personal Space, Vallejo, US
2025 Into the Woods, Make Room, Los Angeles, US
2025 MADONNA, 918 Bathurst St, Toronto, CA (curated by Salma Ragheb)
2025 A Clear Veil, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, US (curated by Cicely Haggerty) 2024, Ihsan, Winnipeg Art Gallery, CA
2024 Humilis, island, New York, US
2024 Thinking About Forever, Images Festival, Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto, CA
2024 Sun Over Swamp, Nanaimo Art Gallery, British Columbia, CA (curated by Jesse Birch)
2023 Discreet Histories, Anat Ebgi, US
2023 Icons, Harkawik, New York, US
2023 Forward from wherever you are, Europa, New York, US
2022 Crossings: Itineraries of Encounter, The Blackwood, Mississauga, CA (curated by Noor Bhangu)
2022 Now I am a lake, Public Gallery, London, UK (curated by Rose Nestler)
2021 Halcyon and On and On, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2021 Holding a line in your hand, Kamloops Art Gallery, CA (curated by Charo Neville)
2019 Preface, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, CA
2019 Cognizance, Birch Contemporary, Toronto, CA
2018 New Energy, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, CA
2017 Faraway, So Close, 26 Art Space, Toronto, CA
2017 Why the &%#! Do You Paint? All the Colour, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, CA
2016 Why the &%#! Do You Paint? Go Figure, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, CA
2016 Walnut Studios, Walnut Contemporary, Toronto CA
2016 Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes Benz, Mississauga, CA
2016 OCADU 101TH GradeEx, Toronto, CA
2016 Awenda Inspired, OCADU Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, CA
2016 Festival of the Body, OCADU, Toronto, CA
2016 The Big Draw, OCADU, Toronto, CA
2015 Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes Benz, Mississauga, CA
2015 Eat the Menu, Symington House, Toronto, CA
2014 Figure Show, OCADU, Toronto, CA
2013 Impromptu, Gallerywest, Toronto, CA
2010 University of Tehran, Iran
Fairs
2025 Art Basel Miami Beach (solo), presented by Franz Kaka, Miami, US
2025 Plural, presented by Franz Kaka, Montreal, CA
2024 NADA NY, presented by Franz Kaka, New York, US
2024 Plural, presented by Franz Kaka, Montreal, CA
2023 Frieze London, presented by Franz Kaka, London, UK
2022 NADA Miami, presented by Franz Kaka, Miami, US
2022 Art Toronto, presented by Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2021 Art Toronto, presented by Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2021 The Armory Show, presented by Franz Kaka, New York, NY
2019 Papier, presented by Franz Kaka, Montreal, QC
2017 Art Toronto, OCADU booth, Toronto, CA
Press
2025 Divine Angubua, ‘Undoing the Icon: Denial and De-Figuration in “MADONNA”, Liminul
2024 ‘Top 100 Early-Career Artists’, ARTCUBE, December
2024 Julie Chadwick, ‘Sun Over Swamp explores the abstract aesthetics of ‘vast and complex lifeworlds’’, The Discourse, April
2023 Estelle Araya-S, ‘Pick of the Week: The Inexpressible is Contained’, Artillery Magazine, September
2023 Robert Enright, ‘The Translation of Painting’, Border Crossings, Volume 42, Issue No. 1
2022 Valentina Di Liscia, ‘Your Concise Guide to Miami Art Week’, Hyperallergic, November
2022 Charlene K. Lau, ‘What to See in Toronto this October’, Frieze.com, October
2022 Rob Jamieson, ‘Fall Arts Preview’, Elle Canada, October 2022
2021 Tammer El-Sheikh, ‘Azadeh Elmizadeh, A Hundred Times, Why?’, Blackflash Magazine, Issue
38.3
2020 Jayne Wilkinson, ’Azadeh Elmizadeh’, Canadian Art, Winter Issue
2020 Tatum Dooley, ’Azadeh Elmizadeh’s Subtle Bodies’ The Editorial Magazine, November 18
2020 Rosie Prata, ’Seven art galleries to visit across Ontario’, The Globe and Mail, October 24
Publications
2025 Azadeh Elmizadeh: Aftertexts Volume 1, published by Art Metropole, CA
2022 Commission (cover and feature) for Emergence Mag, Volume 3
Residencies
2024, Artist in Residence, The Banff Centre, Banff, CA
Artist Talks & Panel
2021 Holding a Line in Your Hand, panel discussion, Kamloops Art Gallery
2022 Art Now: Cross Paths, University of Lethbridge
2024 Sun Over Swamp, panel discussion, Nanaimo Art Gallery
2025 Landscape as Presence: A Conversation with Azadeh Elmizadeh and Nasrin Himada, Art Metropole
2025 Artist Talk and Tour, Russna Kaur and Azadeh Elmizadeh, Art Gallery of Burlington
Awards
2025 Canada Arts Council, research and creation grant
2025 Toronto Arts Council, Newcomer and Refugee Artist Mentorship
2024 Toronto Arts Council
2023 Canada Arts Council, concept to realization grant
2021 Toronto Arts Council
2020 Joseph Plaskett Award for Painting, the Plaskett Foundation
2019 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Guelph
2019 Travel, Research and Creation Grant, University of Guelph
2019 Shuebrook Graduate Scholarship, University of Guelph
2018 Tony Scherman Graduate Scholarship, University of Guelph
2018 University Graduate Scholarship, University of Guelph
I acknowledge the support of the Canada Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.
