Profile

I am an Iranian nomad. In all my works, there is one attitude: the will to raise forgotten questions.

My travel pictures aim at capturing a feeling, a look or a particular composition that makes us rediscover our surrounding.

How nature interacts with material civlization in Norway,

how Tibetan people adapt their lifestyle to high mountains,

how people live their daily lifes in a war-torn Kabul...

Through photos and graphic compositions, I also touch upon contemporary social questions such as questioning the place of labor migrants in Korea or the weight of tradition on women's life in Tajikistan.

I started raising questions, naturally, with words. Beside poetry works, I visualized poetic works, either mine or others', into graphic and typographic shapes.

Roshanak, born in Tehran, 1977, lives & works in Paris, France

Exhibitions & Performances


2011	Individual exhibitions: - *Tajik Women, Future and* Past,Solo Photo exhibition,UN Dushanbe, Tajikistan - Day after day, Photo Exhibition in Tajik Union, and La Grande dame, Dushanbe…
2010	Individual exhibitions: *- Tajik Women, Future and* Past, Solo Photo exhibition, GTZ, Hotel Hayat agency, (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) Collective exhibitions: *- Teabag Talk, Tea Bag Faces, performances and art works addressing the issue of labor migration in South Corea, Litmus Art Center* (Ansan, South Korea) *- Imagination Over the Reality,* Graphic motion works, Bactria Cultural Center (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) **- Behind Patterns, Group Exhibition Modalities, photo art expressing the need for women to break free from oppressive traditions, Bactria Cultural Center** (Dushanbe, Tajikistan)
2009	Individual exhibitions: *- 100% Natural, installations, photographs and motion graphic projections exploring the ambiguous relationship between nature and civilization, Modern Art Museum of Kristiansand* (Kristiansand, Norway) Collective exhibitions: *- Not for sale, graphic motion, exhibited in the Regional Forum “Central Asian Cultural Space: Unity in Diversity”, Bactria Cultural Center, (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) - Le Crayon Blanc,* Jazz Folk Performance: live drawing performed along with Tajik and Finnish Jazz bands, during the European Week in Tajikistan, Bactria Cultural Center (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) *- Agitations, Paintings, Gallerie Gustave* (Paris, France) **- Urban Jealousy, Roaming Tehran Biennal, Belgrade: realized a graphic motion projection and a poster (“Attention Please”) Artistic performances: - Kulturnatta 2009*, digital live drawing and projection performed with Terje Paulsen (electronic music), Modern Art Museum of Kristiansand* (Kristiansand, Norway), April 2008 *- Le Crayon Blanc,* digital live drawing and projection as an homage to various Oriental poets from Iran, Turkey and Afghanistan, various premises in Paris, Dijon, Strasbourg, France, 2008-2009
2008	Individual exhibitions: *- Mademoiselle Lune, lyrical illustrations exhibition, Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot Municipal Library* (Southwest, France), November 2008 Collective exhibitions: *- 18th Istanbul Art Fair, exhibited a series of paintings (“Be Happy!” & “We are many”), November 2008 - Le Crayon Blanc,* digital live drawing and projection as an homage to various Oriental poets from Iran, Turkey and Afghanistan, various premises in Paris, Dijon, Strasbourg, France, 2008-2009
2007	Individual exhibitions: *- Jour après Jour, portraits of Afghans in daily situations, Pamyr gallery* (Paris, France), November 2007 Collective exhibitions: **- Nature Art, Contemporary Art Festival, Khorog, Dushanbe (Tajikistan) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan): realized a set of graphic design posters (“Not for Sale”) and a performance (“Pamran”), August 2007 - French-Rumanian Illustrations Exhibition organized by Maison des Illustrateurs** (Paris-Bucarest-Iashi, France-Rumania)
2005-06:	Individual exhibitions: - The Unknown Word: visual poems using Persian typography, in Pouya Cultural Center and La Plume Vagabonde Library, Paris. - On the Silk Road: Posters set up in public areas combining photographs and graphic design to present Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, China and Tibet, Lacanau (France). Collective exhibitions: Imagining Ourselves, International Museum of Women, Los Angeles Child and City, Illustrators’ House, Paris Pinocchio, Paris Municipality.
2004-05:	Individual exhibitions: - Visual Poems, combining images, shapes and typography, for the inauguration of La Rue Française, Istanbul. Collective exhibitions: - Virtual Travel throughout the World, Immaginario Scientifico Science Centre, Trieste, Italia - 24th Graphic Design Yearly Exhibition, Turkish Graphic Designers Society, Istanbul.
1999-04:	Individual exhibitions: - Winner of the conceptual Arts Competitions, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tehran University, 2001. - The Bird Was Just a Bird, oil painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tehran University, 1999. Collective exhibition: - Self-Promotion posters, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran.

Education

2008: Course in expression plastique, Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré, Paris.
2006: Course in illustration & narration, Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré, Paris.
2002-04: Master of Arts in Graphic Design, Arts University. Best student of the year.
Dissertation on: Concept Research in Polish School's Posters.
This theses is using as a reference in university.
1997-02: B.A in Graphic Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tehran University.
Dissertation on: How to design poetry books covers.

Speaks Persian, French, English and Turkish.