Education
2019 — MFA Curating, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2013 — MA Photography, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2011 — Bachelor of Design, Major in Advertising, Minor in Photography, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
Residencies & Artist Development Programmes
2025–Present — Studio Voltaire, London, UK
2024 — Xenia Creative Retreat, Hampshire, UK
2021–2023 — Sarabande Foundation Studio Residency, London, UK
2021–2022 — Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) Fellowship, Khoj International Artists’ Association & Goethe-Institut, New Delhi, India
2019–2020 — Akin Artist Studio Programme, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Performances
2024 — Friday Late: Feminist Futures, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2022 — Open Mics with Abbas Zahedi, Frieze London x Forma, London, UK
Selected Exhibitions
2026 — The Cult of Beauty, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
2023–2024 — The Cult of Beauty, Wellcome Collection, London, UK
2023 — The Ingram Prize 2023, Cromwell Place, London, UK
2023 — SUM: The Sarabande Summer Group Show, Sarabande Foundation, London, UK
2023 — Headstrong: Women and Empowerment, Centre for British Photography, London, UK
2023 — Surface Temperature, Patel Brown, Toronto, Canada
2022 — Soon This Will Be Over, Sarabande Foundation, London, UK
2021 — Proof 27, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
2019 — Some-bodies, India International Centre, New Delhi, India
2015 — Angles, Saints and Co, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2015 — Flash Forward Festival, Division Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2015 — Heart Throbs, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 — For Photography, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 — Show One, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2012 — Be Here Now, Exposed 2012, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Art Fairs
Upcoming — Fair Play Art Fair, London, UK
2025 — Echo Soho Art Fair, London, UK
2025 — Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK
Curatorial Practice
2025 — Curator, Homesick, Sarabande Foundation, London, UK
2024 — Curator, Earth Monsters, Sarabande Foundation, London, UK
2023 — Curator, Tangle Teaser, Sarabande Foundation x WAAW, London, UK
2022 — Curator, The Demon Show, Sarabande Foundation x WAAW, London, UK
2022 — Curator, Disobedient Bodies, India International Centre, New Delhi, India
2018 — Co-Curator, Bana, Enclave Lab, solo exhibition featuring Moshtari Hilal, London, UK
Selected Media Recognition
2026 — El País / Quadern, “Com reapropiar-se de la bellesa en temps de primesa extrema i Ozempic?”
2025 — Vogue Italia, “Photo London compie 10 anni: intervista alla direttrice”
2025 — 10 Magazine, “The Sarabande Foundation Lands At Photo London”
2024 — Aesthetica Magazine, “The Cult of Beauty”
2023 — Euronews, “Cult of Beauty: London Exhibition Explores the History and Science of What Makes Us Beautiful”
2023 — The Guardian, “‘Beauty Aids Often Look Like Horror Movie Props’: The Show Lifting the Lid on a £660bn Industry”
2023 — Wallpaper, “The Cult of Beauty: Uncovering Subversion, Idealism and Capitalism in the Beauty Industry”
2023 — The i, “Naughty Women Explode Cliché”
2023 — The Guardian, “More Than a Woman: Images of Female Empowerment – in Pictures”
2022 — The Observer, “Self-Portraits Inspired by 19th-Century Iranian Beauty Ideals”