Darya Fard

Darya M. Fard is a multidisciplinary artist and MFA printmaking candidate at Georgia State University’s Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design expected to graduate in 2022. She got her first MFA degree in drawing & painting program at the Art School of Science & Culture University of Tehran, Iran and a BFA degree in drawing & painting program at Alzahra University of Tehran’s School of art, Iran. In Iran she taught at the IIDCYA, a national art institute for approximately 4 years as a painting, drawing, printmaking, pottery, and illustration instructor. She has a very strong interest in visual art, especially printmaking, drawing, painting intersecting with other mediums like photography, video, installation, sound, and dance in addition to pursuing her teaching career. Her work examines universal connection through creating metaphorical, and symbolic mythical creatures, inspired by Persian poetry and mythology. In her studio practice, she is using various techniques of printmaking like lithography, Intaglio, silkscreen, woodcut/linocut, mono-print, alternative photographic processes and papermaking as a tool to create narrative works to translate to other mediums. Since 2008 Darya has actively been pursuing professional exhibition records included solo show, invitational exhibitions, Juried, and group exhibitions across the Iran and the US, and international Juried and invitational exhibitions in Italy, Norway, Canada. In 2021, she was honored with the Ernest G. Welch School Director’s Choice Award, the 22nd Annual Juried Student Exhibition. She also won the People’s Choice Award in the 21st Annual Juried Student Exhibition, in 2020