About
Zahra Ziaie was born in Iran in 1985. She earned her MFA in Illustration from the Tehran University of Art. She has eight years of academic education in the field of painting and illustration and has been teaching continuously in art universities in Tehran since 2015 and has participated in many exhibitions. She is interested in story illustration, especially poetry illustration, and has done many illustrations with different techniques such as acrylic, ecolin, watercolor, oil pastel, chalcography, ink, …
Professional Experience
2018 – Present: Lecturer of the Department of Textile and Clothing Design at the Shariati Technical and Vocational University. Tehran (Iran)Courses taught: Basic Drawing I, Basic Drawing II, Nature in drawing, Color in the Visual Arts.
2018 – 2019: Lecturer of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Science and Culture. Tehran (Iran)Course taught: Illustration I.
2018: Lecturer of the Graphic Department at the Islamic Azad University of Sama Jannat Abad. Tehran (Iran)Courses taught: Technology and Graphic III, Screen Printing, Corel Draw.
2016 – Present: Lecturer of the Department of Visual Arts and Department of Fashion Design at the Pars University of Architecture and Art. Tehran (Iran)Courses taught: Illustration I, Basic Photography I, Advanced Photography I, Visual Communication IV, Manual Printing II, Basic Drawing I, Basic Drawing II, Drawing and Figure, Recognition and Application of Colors in Cloth Design, Fundamentals of the Visual Arts I, Color in the Visual Arts.Professor Director of theory and practical department of Visual Arts undergraduate students (12 students).
2016 – 2018: Lecturer of the Graphic Department at the University of Rasam. Alborz Province (Iran)Courses taught: Illustration, Basic Drawing II, Packaging Design, Visual Communication II, Graphics Fundamentals II, Drawing V, Drawing VI.
2015 – 2017: Lecturer of the Graphic Department at the Islamic Azad University of Sama Islamshahr. Tehran (Iran)Courses taught: Drawing VI, Page Layout Design, Technology and Graphic Workshop I, Technology and Graphic Workshop III, Screen Printing, Analysis of Graphic Works, Research Method.
2017: Teacher of the Graphic Department at the Honarjoo Art School. Tehran (Iran)Course taught: Page Layout Design.
2015: Lecturer of the Graphic Department at Amin University of Fooladshahr. Isfahan (Iran)Course taught: Illustration.
Exhibitions
“Within Amber”, Group Visual Arts Exhibition at Bloom Art Society in January 2024, Gorinchem, Netherlands.
“No title” Group painting exhibition at Baharak Gallery in February 2021, Tehran, Iran.
“Qasr in the Frame” Group painting exhibition as the curator at Qasr Museum-Garden in December 2019, Tehran, Iran.
“The Summer Auction of Visual Arts” Group Visual Arts exhibition at Baharak Gallery in February 2019, Tehran, Iran.
“Art & Experience” Group Visual Arts exhibition at Entezami Gallery in August 2019, Tehran, Iran.
“Kimiaye honare Pars” Group exhibition of the artworks of professors and students of the Pars University of Architecture and Art at the Saba Gallery in July 2019, Tehran, Iran.
“Eliminating Viral Hepatitis” Group drawing and illustration exhibition (The 7th International Tehran Hepatitis Conference) at the Razi Hall in September 2017, Tehran, Iran.
“The Sale of Artworks of Visual Arts” Group exhibition at the Naghsh-Khaneh Gallery in 2016, Isfahan, Iran.
“100 Pand” Solo exhibition of Illustration at the Artists House in January 2015, Isfahan, Iran.
“2th Negah” Group exhibition of Painting at the Calligraphy Museum in May 2002, Isfahan, Iran.
Other Informations
Referee for the Graphic and Photography departments in “The cultural and artistic call of Eighth Heaven” at the Islamic Azad University of Sama Islamshahr, February 4, 2014, Tehran (Iran).
Honorary Member of the Institute for the Promotion of Contemporary Visual Art of Iran, in the Illustration career (May 2016 – Present).
DELE Qualification Certification at level B2 from the Cervantes Institute. (Madrid, Spain-2018)
