SHILLA SHAKOORI

EDUCATION

- Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design                     2009-2012

   California State University Northridge (CSUN)  

- Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design                          1999-2004

   Azad University of Art & Architecture - Tehran, Iran                                                             

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

- Teaching Assistant,

   Art 140: 2D Design, California State University, Northridge, Spring 2012

- Student Teaching Assistant,

   various graphic design courses, California State University, Northridge, Fall 2009-Fall 2011

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EXHIBITIONS

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- The Same Thing Everyday, Moorpark College Art Gallery,      Moorpark, CA, January-February  2020

- LAAA Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, December2019-January 2020

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- AMERICAN, GWC Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA, March-April 2019

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- ART BRIEF IV: Iranian Contemporary San Francisco, SOMARTS Cultural    Center, San Francisco, CA, December 2018

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- ART BRIEF III: THE (UN)DRAPED WOMAN, Arena1 Gallery, Santa Monica,    CA, February 2017

- LAAA 2016 Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, December 2016

- ART BRIEF ll: IRANIAN CONTEMPORARY NORTH AMERICA, Arena 1    Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, December 2015

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- ART BRIEF: IRANIAN CONTEMPORARY LOS ANGELES, Arena 1    Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, June 2016

-LOCAL/NOT LOCAL,Arab and Iranian Typography in California,
 University Art Gallery,Cal State University Dominguez Hills, CA, Oct-Dec  2015

-LOCAL/NOT LOCAL,Arab and Iranian Typography in California,
 American Arab Museum (AANM),Detroit Michigan, Dec 2014- Feb 2015

-LOCAL/NOT LOCAL,Arab and Iranian Typography in California,
 Levantine Cultural Center, Los Angeles, June 2014

- Los Angeles Art Association Anual Benefit Auction, 2013

- The illustration exhibition of Wonderland group, Summer Gallery, Artists      Forum,Tehran, Iran, May 2013

- BOOM (Southern California MFA Invitational Group Exhibition), PDC, 2012

-Annual juried art student exhibition, Main Gallery, CSUN, 2012 (won  thesecond place)

- In Search O fClarity: Three Perspectives On Iran, (group exhibition) Art  Gallery,  Antelope Valley College, 2012

- Triangulation (group exhibition) West Gallery, CSUN, 2011

- BOOM (Southern California MFA Invitational Group Exhibition), LA Mart, 2011

- Viable Voices, Shed Gallery, CSUN, 2010

- As Long As It Takes, with Sara Alavikia, Shed Gallery, CSUN, 2009

- Representation of Persian painting in Contemporary Art of Iran (group  exhibition), Mahe Mehr Gallery, Tehran-Iran, 2007

- International Visual Arts Festival of Resistance (Illustration), Tehran Museum  of Contemporary Art, Iran, 2006

AFFILIATION

- Member of LAAA (Los Angeles Art Association)