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Shamsi Shahrokhi | To Shamsi Shahrokhi, art is a commitment to honour both her Persian culture and her life Picture of Shamsi Shahrokhiin Canada. A pleasing combination of eastern aesthetics executed via Western-style painting techniques is observed in most her paintings. Shamsi works in a wide variety of media such as water colour, oil, acrylic, pastel, multimedia, printmaking and heat drawing.

Shamsi is an award winning graduate from the Ontario College of Art and Design with a major in drawing and painting. Born in Tehran, Iran, she obtained her bachelor's of Art degree from Allameh Tabatabaie University in Tehran. She attended various workshops under instruction and supervision of well-known artists.

Shamsi has invented and pioneered an award winning painting technique called Heat Drawing, where she creates images and shapes on heat sensitive papers without using conventional materials such as paintbrushes, but by applying heat to their surfaces.

Her Heat Drawing art works have been extremely successful and have achieved the following:

  • Acknowledgements from the Honorable Mike Colle, former Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration; the Mayor of Toronto, Mr. David Miller; Honorable Hazel McCallion, the Mayor of Mississauga; and Mrs. Susan Kadis, Previous Member of Parliament for Thornhill.
  • Community Arts Ontario selection of work for the cover of spring 2007 issue of Community Arts Matters! (CAM) newspaper of Ontario.
  • Live demonstration on 'City TV's Breakfast Television' on 7 May 2003.

Her awards include:

2003 | Ontario College of Art and Design's Dorothy Hoover Award
2004 | First Prize Award amongst 225 works at the Sixth National Biennial Competition of Art and Paper in Ottawa, and collected by the National Bank of Canada
2005 | Juror's Merit Award at the 2005 Juried Exhibition of Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, Ontario
2006 | Grand Prize Winner of the 2006 First Annual Vortex Art Competition hosted by the Blue Man Group in Toronto
2007 | Second Prize Award winner of the Latcham Gallery's 2007 Annual Juried Exhibition in Stouffvile, Ontario
2007 | Jurors' Award at Art Gallery of Peel's 34th Annual Juried Show in Brampton, Ontario 2008 | Jurors' Merit Award of the 2008 Annual York Region Juried Exhibition at the Varly Art Gallery of Markham.
2009 | Second Prize Award of the "Drawing 2009", 10th Annual Juried Drawing Exhibition at the John B. Aird Gallery in Toronto.

Some of the famous galleries that have displayed Shamsi's works are: Galerie d' Art Jean-Claude-Bergeron in Ottawa, Contemporary Museum of Arts in Iran, Wagner-Rosenbaum Gallery, Gallery 401, OCAD Gallery, S.P.I.N Gallery, Kabat Wrobel Gallery, Loop Gallery and Sole Gallery in Toronto, Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, Art Gallery of Mississauga in Mississauga, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, The Latcham Gallery of Stouffville and Art Gallery of Peel in Brampton, Ontario.

Shamsi is actively involved in community arts projects and teaches art to children and youth at Varly Art Gallery and conducts art lessons for all ages at her studio in Thornhill.

 
Artwork and photograph by Shamsi Shahrokhi
Artwork and photograph by Shamsi Shahrokhi
Artwork and photograph by Shamsi Shahrokhi


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