Statement

I try relatively large formats for my paintings, but they are not necessarily a descriptive, historical or symbolic narration of a big, momentous event. I believe that a small-scale painting may take experience away from the painter, reducing his/her visual experience to a general view. Therefore, in my opinion, the large formats of my paintings will engage me with and confirm my presence in them.

The Unknown is the title of a collection by which I can be placed in a certain condition. Through such a situation, I am able to possess a better understanding of what I did not know before. The collection is a personal attempt in the context of daily experience. As I am interested in the relations of color and form, my subjects include figures, still-lifes and all the objects surrounding my little atelier. They all escape my self-consciousness with a quick, expressive approach. This starting point and the enthusiasm for painting the forms will take me as far as the point where I did not decide to paint which at all. It is just like a fluid event that brings about the formation of another dimension of my perception, taking me to those places with no connection to what I desired at first.

Proportional to my painterly experience, The Unknown is gradually turning into an optional trend over the time. Here, I have intentionally chosen a part of accident to remain. That’s why I frequently observe in my paintings that beauty would be created and sometimes vanished. It seemed quite possible for me to achieve through such an accident a more delicate or complicate matter than what I had expected.

I have changed in my works the order of chairs, tables and figures beyond their actual forms; however, such a state of disorder has reached order and harmony in my paintings. The outcome of my attempt at clarifying the form has been the creation of a very organized, geometric composition with lively colors full of contrasts over a white ground, and yet I have not used orderly nor methodical approach to paint them.

The Unknown is a simple dialogue in a painterly language which at first glance carries an ambiguous explicitness! It is the narrative of suppressing the plain truth, the story of re-exaltation and re-evocation, re-embellishment and exaggeration, and giving life to a pictorial domain among the forms which have lost their pictorial nature. Tracing such elements and factors has summoned up /Images in my mind, constantly making me be fascinated by painting.  

 

Resume

• Hāniyeh Delāvariān, A member of the academic board at Rasām Institute of Higher Education, Graphic Department, Karaj, Iran
• Born in 9/8/1984
• Residence: Karaj  
• Marital Status: married, Two children

 

Educational Background:

• Ph.D. in Philosophy of Art, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran, 2013 – 2017
• M.A. degree in Painting, Faculty of Art and Architecture of Islamic Azad University, Central Branch, Tehran, Iran, 2009-2011
• Being first-rate of the post-graduate course, average: 19/56, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tehran, Iran, 2009-2011
• B.A. degree in Graphics, University of Ferdows, Mashhad, Iran, 2007-2009
• Associate’s degree in Graphics, Girls’ Institute of Sepideh Kāshāni, Birjand, Iran, 2001-2003
• Paintings of years 2005 to 2011 under the supervision of masters Bābak Etmināni, Manižeh Sehi, Homāyun Sābeti Motlaq, Ruyin Pākbāz, Mohammad Bāqer Ziyāyi, Yaqub Ammāmehpich, Mehrdad Khatāyi
• Paintings of years 2007 to 2009 under the supervision of masters Sā’d Meshki, Ali Ābedi

 

Academic Theses:

• Mafāhime Zibāshenākhti va Nāzibāshenākhti nazde Frank Sibley (The Aesthetic and Non-Aesthetic Concepts in Frank Sibley’s View) (Ph.D.)
• Kudakvāregi dar Āsāre Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Juan Miro and Jean Dubuffet (Childhood in the Works of Wassily Kandinsky, Paul  Klee, Juan Miro and Jean Dubuffet) (M.A.)
• Tasvirgariye Jelde Ketab bā Teknike Monoprint (Book Cover Illustration by Using Monoprint Technique) (B.A.)

 

Biennials:

• Presenting 1 artwork at the 8^th National Biennial of Persian Contemporary Painting, 2011
• Presenting 2 artworks at the 7^th National Biennial of Persian Contemporary Painting, 2007

 

Awards:

• Being awarded as first in the National Festival of Quranic Painting of Shafaq (twilight) verses, Ilam, Iran, 2012
• Being awarded as first in painting, 5^th Festival of Visual Arts, Mashhad, Iran, 2008
• Being awarded as first in illustration, in Commemoration of Mevlânâ (Rumi), Birjand, Iran, 2007

 

Selected Exhibitions:

Solo:

• Nāmi Art Gallery, Khāne-ye Honarmandan (The Forum of Artists), Tehran, Iran, 2008
• Mahrovā Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2007

Group:

• Kārun Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, November 2021
• Kārun Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, May 2021
• Pinelo Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2021
• Online Art Gallery, Canada-France, May 2021
• Participate in the online auction of Art's Gallery, Canada-France, 2021
•  Art Holding Group Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2020
•  Didi Gallery Museum, Izadshahr, Mazandaran, 2020
• Kārun Art Gallery, North Shore Art Crawl, Vancouver, Canada, 2012
• Bahman Art Gallery, Artworks Exposition, Birjand, Iran, 2012
• Shafaq Art Gallery, Ilam, Iran, 2012
• Kārun Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2011
• Port Moody Arts Centre, in Commemoration of Sohrab Sepehri, Vancouver, Canada, 2011
• Ārtin Art Gallery, Mashhad, Iran, 2010
• Sorush Art Gallery, Mashhad, Iran, 2008
• Sabā Artistic-Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran, 2007
• Māhe Honar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2006
• The Cultural Heritage Organization, Rahim-Ābāb Historic Garden, Iran, 2001
• Mirak Art Gallery, Mashhad, Iran, 2001

 

Referees:

•          Refereeing of articles, specialized quarterly of Art Chemistry, Art Research Institute, Tehran, 2020
•         Referee of the poster design section of the National Festival of Art, Literature and Research "Narration of Sedition", Azad University, Science and Research Branch Tehran, 2018
•        Referee of the National Conference on the Effects of Islamic Iranian Art in Culture, Science and Documentation, University of Guilan, 2018
•        Judge of Iranian Paradise Design Festival 2, Negareh Islamic Art Research Center and Institute of Islamic Art Studies, Tehran, 2017
•         Referee of master's theses in the fields of visual communication, illustration and art research, Azad University Tehran Science and Research, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Kamal-ol-Molk University of Art and Architecture, Nowshahr, University Islamic Azad Branch of West Tehran, 2014-2020

 

Executive Activities:

• Judging the Poster Design Section, National Festival of Revāyate Fetneh Art, Literature and Research, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, 2018
• Judging the National Conference on the Manifestation of the Islamic-Persian Art in Culture, Science and Documents, University of Gilan, Iran, 2018
• Judging the Festival of Persian Paradise Designing (2), Negāreh Research Center for Islamic Art, and Institute for Islamic Art, Tehran, 2017
• Being in Charge of Khāne-ye Honarmandān va Naqqāshāne Hozeh-ye Honari (The Forum of Designers and Painters at the Hozeh-ye Honari), South Khorasan Province, 2012
• Secretary of Wall Painting Department, Hozeh-ye Honari, South Khorasan Province, 2010
• Executing the project of wall painting, Hozeh-ye Honari, South Khorasan Province,  commissioned by Birjand Municipality, 2010
• Executing 2 wall painting projects, Mashhad Municipality, 2008
• Presenting 1 work based on the theme of spring, Jomhuri Square, Mashhad, 2008

 

Teaching Background (M.A. Courses):

• Department of Graphics, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran, 2017-2022
• Department of Graphics, Islamic Azad University, West Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran, 2016-2018
• Graphics, Illustration and research in Art fields of study, Art and Architecture University of Kamāl-ol-Molk, Nowshahr, Iran, 2013-2018
• Supervisor and advisor of M.A. theses in Graphics, Illustration, and research in Art fields of study; Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran; Art and Architecture University of Kamāl-ol-Molk, Nowshahr; Tabari Institute of Higher Education, Babol; Islamic Azad University, West Tehran Branch, Iran, 2014-2022

 

Teaching Background (B.A. Courses):

• Islamic Azad University, Tabas Branch, Graphics, 2010-2013
• Applied Science and Technology Education Center of Jahad Daneshgahi, Birjand, Graphics, 2011-2013
• Applied Science and Technology Education Center of Culture and Art, Unit 31, Tehran, Graphics, 2013
• Art and Architecture University of Kamāl-ol-Molk, Nowshahr, Department of Visual Arts: Graphics and Painting fields of study, 2013-2015
• Non-profit University of Rasām, Karaj, Graphics, 2015-2022
• Supervising final projects and theses of the continuous and discontinuous Bachelor’s degrees courses, Graphics, Islamic Azad University, Tabas Branch, 2011-2013
• Supervising final projects and theses of the discontinuous Bachelor’s courses, Graphics, and the continuous Bachelor’s courses, Painting, Art and Architecture University of Kamāl-ol-Molk, Nowshahr, 2013-2022
• Supervising final projects and theses of the continuous and discontinuous Bachelor’s degree courses, Graphics, and the continuous Bachelor’s courses, Non-profit University of Rasām, Karaj, 2015-2022

 

Papers:

Scientific Periodicals:

• Tabyine Keyfiyāt va Ahkāme Zibāshenākhti dar Goftomāne Enteqādi nazde Frank Sibley (An Analysis of Aesthetic Disciplines in the Critical Discourse of Frank Sibley), Shenākht Journal, Iran, 2016 
• Barrasi-ye Mafāhime Zibāshenākhti va Nāzibāshenākhti bā Ebtenāye bar Andishe-hāye Zibāshenāsāne-ye Frank Sibley (The Aesthetic and Non-Aesthetic Concepts on the basis of Frank Sibley’s Aesthetic Thoughts), Falsafe-ye Tahlili Journal, Iran, 2017

ISI Journals:

• The Study of Aesthetic and Non-aesthetic Concepts based upon Frank Sibley's Aesthetic Thoughts", Journal of Man in India, Vol. 97, September 2017
• Studying the Alignment and Mutuality of Aristotle's Aesthetics Theory and Clive Bell's Meaningful Form Theory, Science and Education Academic Journal, No. SP4, 2017
• Representation of Pain and Suffering in the Works of Three Neo-Expressionist Painters during 1970-80, Dilemas Contemporaneos: Educacion, Politica y Valores, ISSN/ISBN: 2007-7890, 2019