Helia Pouyanfar
(b. 1995, Iran)
helia.pouyanfar@gmail.com | https://heliapouyanfar.com/ | IG @heliapouyanfar
Education
2020 University of California Davis, MFA Candidate, Class of 2022
2019 University of California Berkeley, BA in Practice of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Reflection Garden, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
2018 Rhythmical Abstraction, 165, Project Space 1, UC Berkeley
2018 Gone, Kroeber Cases, UC Berkeley
Group Exhibitions
2021 Free Fall, Brittany, Vallejo, CA
2021 Un/Equal Freedoms: Expressions for Social Justice, Center on Race, Immigration, and Social Justice, Sacramento State University, CA
2020 Reflection, National Juried Exhibition, Arc Gallery & Studios, San Francisco, CA
2019 Liminal Space: Spring 2019 Senior Thesis Exhibition, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley
2019 Support Group, call (510) 402-2086, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley
2018 The Berkeley Biennial, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley
2018 Re-reimagined, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley
2018 Everything Must Go, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley
Collections
2018- 2019 Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Awards, Fellowships and Grants
2021 Margrit Mondavi Graduate Fellowships, UC Davis Humanities Institute
2021 Mary Lou Osborn Award, UC Davis Art Studio MFA
2019 Lauren Krikorian Memorial Prize, UC Berkeley Art Practice
2019 Certificate of Excellence in Sculpture, UC Berkeley Art Practice
2018 Honors Program and Studio, UC Berkeley Art Practice
Publications
2020 Arc Gallery & Studios, Reflection Catalog, National Juried Exhibition
2020 Root Division, MFA Never Catalog, 2020 Archive Project/ Juried Exhibition
2020 Berkeley Arts + Design, Made at Berkeley Showcase Book, Issue 04
Talks
2020 Arc Gallery "Reflection" Exhibition Artist Talk
Interviews
2021 California Aggie, "The lives of UC Davis art students in quarantine", https://theaggie.org/2021/02/10/the-lives-of-uc-davis-art-students-in-quarantine
2021 Basement Gallery, Episode 6: New Beginnings Podcast, https://ucdbasementgallery.podbean.com/e/episode-6-new-beginnings-first-year-mfa/
Internships
Summer 2018 Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles