Biography

Paria Shahverdi was born in Tehran, the capital of Iran. She graduated from the Fine Arts University in Tehran before immigrating to Canada in 2004. Her drawings were selected annually for the Toronto Annual Drawing Exhibition, and she later developed a mixed-media series that was presented in solo exhibitions in 2016 and 2018. In 2017, she received a grant from the Ontario Arts Council in support of her second body of work. These exhibitions garnered recognition through interviews on CBC Radio and CBC Television. 

Her artwork has been shown in New York State, USA, and across Canada and Iran. As an honorary student, she completed a second Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at York University, where she later earned her Master of Fine Arts.