Helia Pouyanfar
(b. 1995, Iran)

helia.pouyanfar@gmail.com | https://heliapouyanfar.com/ | IG @heliapouyanfar
Education
2022     University of California Davis, MFA Candidate in Studio Art
2019      University of California Berkeley, BA in Art Practice
Solo Exhibition
2018     Reflection Garden, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
2018     Rhythmical Abstraction, 165, Project Space 1, UC Berkeley
Group Exhibitions 
2023     FORECAST 2023, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2023     Rebirth, WAVE Collective Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023     Woman, Life, Freedom, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023     Prismatic, Southern Exposure’s Annual Benefit Auction, San Francisco, CA
2023     Anonymously از Iran, Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery, Queens, NY
2022     Mirror Material, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2022     Path, The Niche at Dovetail Magazine, Scotland
2022     Introductions 2022, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2022     Axis Gallery's 17th National Juried Exhibition, Sacramento, CA
2022     Topophilia, Art and Humanities 2022 Gradate Exhibition, Manetti Shrem Museum, Davis, CA
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      Reflection Garden, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Awards, Fellowships, Grants, and Nominations
2022     Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship, Finalist and Alternate
2022     Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship, Nomination, UC Davis Art Studio MFA
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
2022     Topophilia, UC Davis Art Studio MFA, Exhibition Catalog
2022     Once There, Now Here, Open Ceilings, Summer 2022 Issue
2022     - Once, in passing, Edition One Books, Self-Publication 
2020     Reflection Catalog, Arc Gallery & Studios, National Juried Exhibition 
2020     MFA Never Catalog, Root Division, 2020 Archive Project/ Juried Exhibition 
2020     Made at Berkeley Showcase Book, Issue 04, Berkeley Arts + Design
Talks and Interviews
2022    Once There, Now Here, UC Berkeley’s Senior Projects Seminar, Artist Talk
2021     The lives of UC Davis art students in quarantine, California Aggie, Interview
2021     Episode 6: New Beginnings Podcast, Basement Gallery, Interview
2020    Reflection Exhibition, Arc Gallery, Artist Talk
Teaching, Internships, and Committees
Summer 2022   
Beginning Photography, Lecturer, University of California, Davis
Spring 2022      
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, Appointed Member, Art Studio Department, University of California, Davis
Spring 2022      
Intermediate Printmaking: Relief, Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis
Winter 2022      
Beginning Photography, Associate Instructor, University of California, Davis
Fall 2021
Contemporary Art Appreciation, Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis
Spring 2021      
Contemporary Art Appreciation, Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis
Winter 2021      
Beginning Drawing, Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis
Fall 2020          
Beginning Sculpture, Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis
Summer 2019   
Studio Assistant, Brody Reiman’s Studio, Berkeley
Summer 2018   
Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles










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