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Moved to the United States of America
Marc Davis Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Group show, "Out of Character", California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Walt Disney Foundation Scholarship for achievement excellence in animation, Burbank, CA
Group show, "El Gallo Café", Gallery 1919, Los Angeles, CA
Received his B.F.A. in character animation, School of Film and Video, California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts)
Four Sisters Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles
University of California Los Angeles’ Vincent E. Defrances Scholarship, Los Angeles
Edie and Lew Wasserman Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Finished his M.F.A. in animation, School of Film, TV, and Digital Media, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Afghan 1
Solo show, "Figure In Motion", Annenberg Foundation, Los Angeles
Solo show, "Disorderly Scuffled", Aun Gallery, Tehran
Solo show, "Div-e Aaz / The Demon of Greed", Aun Gallery, Tehran
Group show, "L.A. vs. War: Art for Peace in the Hope Era", The Vortex, Los Angeles, CA
Group show, Nil Gallery, Tehran
Artist Lecture, Art Department of Riverside Community College, Riverside, CA
Second prizewinner, Best Short Film Award, Sarah Moridpour & Pouya Afshar, "The Voided Loom: Kelardasht's Carpet"
Rostam and Sohrab
Solo show, "Seven Conquests of Story", Aun Gallery, Tehran
Screenings, "Farhang Short Film Festival" Screening of "Rostam in Wonderland: Sohrab’s Blood", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
First prizewinner, Pouya Afshar & Soroush Rezaee, "Rostam In Wonderland - Sohrab's Blood", Best Short Film Award
Art fair, Art Context Miami Fair, Miami, Florida
Group show, two person show, "The Mystery of Suveyda", Two Person Show, Shulamit Gallery, Los Angeles
Artist talk, "Seven Conquests of Story" series, Aun Gallery, Tehran
Art fair, Houston Fine Arts Fair, Represented by Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Houston, TX
Art fair, Houston Fine Arts Fair, Shulamit Gallery, Houston, TX
Solo show, "Romance with the Crow I Killed", Shulamit Gallery, Los Angeles
Art fair, Volta New York, Represented by Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, New York
Delivered a lecture at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Group show, "Art Bridges", University of Adam Mickiewicz, Kalisz, Poland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Obtained "Rostam in Wonderland" series for its Art of the Middle East’s Permanent Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Group show, "Creative Art, Innovative Science", Aun Gallery, Tehran
Screenings, Screening of "Rostam in Wonderland" series, Curated by Cyrus Samii, Crescent Moon Projects, Access Theater NYC, New York
Group show, "Rostam in Wonderland" Series, Contemporary Art of the Middle East, Curated by Linda Komarov, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA
Artist Lecture and Presentation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Creative Economy Grant, Lowell High School, Lowell, MA
Solo show, "Mourn Baby Mourn", Dastan Basement, Tehran
Artist Lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Earth day group show, Curated by Ingrid Hess, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Group show, "Artnet Contemporary Middle Eastern Show and Auction", Curated by Bibinaz Zavieh, the Space by Advocartsy, Los Angeles
Fulbright Scholar Award, Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey
Art fair, Art Dubai, Represented by Dastan's Basement Gallery, Dubai
Art fair, Art Dubai, Represented by Dastans Basement, Dubai
Delivered a lecture at the University of California, Los Angeles
Solo show, "Mourn Baby, Mourn", Curated by Roshi Rahnama, The Space by Advocartsy, Los Angeles
Solo show, "Out of Character", Galerie Nicolas Flamel, Paris
Group show, "Art Brief IV: Iranian Contemporary San Francisco", Curated by Roshi Rahnama, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco
Group show, "An Art and Design Collaboration: ADVOCARTSY x Ryan Saghian", The Space by Advocartsy, Los Angeles
Group show, "Mossavar-nameh 2" , Curated by Hormoz Hematian and Ashkan Zahraei, Teer Art, Tehran
Group show, "In the Fields of Empty Days: the Intersection of the Past and Present in Iranian Art", Curated by Linda Komarov, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Artist Lecture and Master Class, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Group show, "Mossavar-Nameh", Plus 2, Tehran
Group show, "Mossavar-Nameh", Dastans Basement, Tehran
Solo show, "En Masse", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
Group show, "Art Brief IV: Iranian Contemporary San Fransisco", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
Group show, "In the Fields of Empty Days", LACMA, Los Angeles County
Short-listed as a finalist for "Focus Iran 3: Contemporary Photography and Video Competition", Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
Displaced 3
Group show, "Contemporary Photography and Video", Viewpoint Gallery, University of California Irvine, Irvine
Group show, "American", Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
Group show, "Focus Iran 3: Contemporary Photography and Video", Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
Group show, "Summer Art Bash", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
Group show, "Selection of Works", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
Group show, "Group Show", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
Solo show, "Out of Character", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
Group show, "Group Exhibition", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
Group show, "Once Upon a Time", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
Solo show, "The Charm of The Unfamiliar", Craft Contemporary, California
Group show, "Holiday Hang", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
Solo show, "A Return To The Flesh", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
Group show, "Resilience: Summer Group Exhibition", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
Group show, "Vintage Modern", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
Group show, "Portraiture Now: Iranian Contemporary", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
Group show, "mādar", CUE Art Foundation, New York