Shiva Ahmadi

Place: Tehran

Born: 1975

Biography:

Shiva Ahmadi is an Iranian-American artist known for her paintings, videos, and installations. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and museums in North America and the Middle East. Ahmadi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1975. Her upbringing, which is reflected in her art, was marked by the Iranian Revolution and the Iran–Iraq War. She obtained a bachelor of fine art from Azad University in 1998 and moved to USA to pursue her graduate studies. She attended Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and received an Master of Art Degree in Drawing (2000) and a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing (2003). In 2003 she attended an artist residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2005 Ahmadi obtained her second MFA, in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Ahmadi was appointed as an Associate Professor of Art at the University of California, Davis in 2015.