Photo by Amir B. Ash
Biography & CV
Ghazal Majidi is an interdisciplinary new media artist and filmmaker from Tehran, currently based in Vancouver, Canada. Her body of work spans 3D animation, XR, video game, audiovisual, and film. Distorting conventional narratives, Majidi explores the coexistence of dissonants— the digital vs. the physical, the absurd vs. the sensible, and the mundane vs. the extraordinary. Magical realism is a common genre in her works, probing questions about the nature of memories, dreams, and reality. Her works have been showcased at film festivals and galleries around the world, including Vienna Shorts, Mutek AE, Brussels Independent Film Festival, MONSTRA Lisbon Animated Film Festival, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, among others. Majidi holds a Bachelor of Architecture and is currently finishing her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Simon Fraser University.
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2022-2024/ MFA Interdisciplinary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
2018/ Bachelor of Architecture, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2012/ Mathematics Diploma, Kherad Educational Highschool, Tehran, Iran
2024/ CutOut Fest- Internaitonal Animation and Digital Art Festival, Sarbaz Premiere, Querétaro, Mexico
2024/ "Worlds Among Us" Group Exhibition, "Noclip Player" and "A Recollection of the Disappeared", Audain Galley, Vancouver, BC
2024/ "Worlds Among Us" Group Exhibition, "Noclip Player" and "A Recollection of the Disappeared", Audain Galley, Vancouver, BC
2024/ Girona International Film Festival, Sarbaz Premiere, Finalist in the Experimental Video section, Girona, Spain
2024/ ANIMATOR FESTIVAL, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR 2023, Kino Muza, Poznan, Pland
2024/ Mutek UAE, Parallax interactive AR installation, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
2024/ Reaktor Wien, Sarbaz World Premiere, Reaktor Wien Foyer, Vienna, Austria
2024/ Waking Life Festival, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR 2023, Crato, Portugal
2024/ Monstra Animation Festival, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR Festival 2023, Cinema Sao Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal
2024/ Waking Life Festival, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR 2023, Crato, Portugal
2024/ WFAF festival, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR 2023, Varna, Bulgaria
2023/ ZumZeig Arthouse Cinemal, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR 2023, Barcelona, Spain
2023/ Oak Cliff Film Festival, Moss Grew Premiere, Dallas, US
2023/ The Wrong Biennale, Adam Meets Eve Pavilion, Pneumomania, Virtual Exhibition
2023/ Denver Digerati Emergent Media Festival, Moss Grew Premiere, Denver, US
2023/ Punto Y Raya Festival, Pneumomania Screening, Lisbon, Portugal
2023/ Antimatter, Moss Grew Screening, Deluge Contemporary Gallery, Victoria, CANADA
2023/ Girona International Film Festival, Moss Grew Screening, Girona, Spain
2023/ Mosaic World Film Festival, Moss Grew Premiere, Georgia, US
2023/ Austrian Filmfestival, Moss Grew Premiere, Vienna, Austria
2023/ Alexander Studios, Group Exhibition, Backflash Installation, Vancouver, Canada
2021/ Bethanien- Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Tehran Contemporary Sounds, Video Exhibition of Pneumomania, Berlin, Germany
2021/ Vienna Shorts International Film Festival, Seer & Seen Screening, Vienna, Austria
2021/ Casa de Cultura, part of Girona Film Festival, Video Exhibition of Seer & Seen, Girona, Spain
2021/ Mosaic World Film Festival, Seer & Seer Screening, Georgia, US
2021/ Fest Anca International Film Festival, Seer & Seen Screening, Slovakia
2021/ Brussels International Film Festival, Seer & Seen Screening, Brussels, Belgium
2021/ NEO Shibuya 30 Seconds Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2020/ Group Exhibition, Soo Contemporary, Tehran, Iran
2024/ Artist Talk on making Sarbaz, Reaktor Wien, Vienna, Austria
2024/ Artist Talk on Noclip Player and Recollection of the Disappeared, Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2019/ Author, Horoscope Poetry Series Giesela von Horoskopf, Null Set Theory Online Publication
2018/ Organizer and Producer, Body and Movement Workshop Series, Instructor Ideh Aboutalebi, Tehran, Iran
2017/ Co-researcher and Co-author, A Comprehensive Architectural Analysis Of Telegraphchi Mansion, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2011/ Goethe Institute Residency, klossterschule, B2 Candidate, Rossleben, Germany