Mina Hedayat
Mina Hedayat was born in Iran. In 2010 moved to Malaysia for pursuing her PhD and after that in 2014 moved to Canada. Mina passionate in painting since her younger days, she is participating in numerous prominent art exhibitions in Iran, Korea, Malaysia and Hong Kong Art Fair. Her desire is using art as a channel to present the beauty and aesthetic nature of women. She is the artist for who does not exist any stylistic border. At any time filled with salty energy sails can transfer the clipper of her inexhaustible imagination to unfamiliar mysterious coast of new terra incognita. “The greatest challenge an artist faces is to adequately channel her first bursts of creative energy. It is necessary to constantly work at improving one’s skills in order to effectively tackle this challenge.” Her main focus is figurative art. She is attracted to the acrylic paintings, Printmaking and Digital Art. In my recent work, I have been developing a series of animal-inspired paintings that blur the boundaries between animals, humanity, women and fine art. I am interested in the narrative quality of painting.
I am trying to create artwork that seduces the spectator to engage it intellectually and emotionally and finish its story, like the beginning of a short story or the punch line of an unsettling joke.” I consciously work with technique and composition, but my unconscious adds an element of inner yearning for tranquility, strength and well-being depending on my mood. For the sake of important elements in a work, I often exaggerate or distort shapes and lines to enhance the overall flow and composition. I apply the paint, but it is a struggle to not get in the way of the process as it unfolds. It works best if the vision guides me, not I guide it. I notice that my visits to Malaysia are influencing my palette. Her desired to printmaking appeared after she decided to learn Hand drawn Batik. She mixed Iranian painting with nature by shiny and bright color in her last series.
Quand la peinture sort du cadre et que le cadre se fait œuvre. À travers sa peinture, l’artiste d’origine iranienne Mina Hedayat exprime ses émotions en tant que nouvelle venue au Canada. Ses sentiments, ses croyances et ses souvenirs d’enfance servent de bases à un dialogue interculturel. Le processus d’adaptation à la société d’accueil devient un mécanisme d’hybridation dont témoignent ses peintures récentes. Dans son travail, Mina Hedayat incorpore avec exaltation des techniques traditionnelles à une approche moderne, de manière à générer une conversation sur le rôle de l’artisanat dans l’art contemporain. Elle combine motifs et couleurs afin de transporter le regardeur dans des réminiscences liées à sa culture d’origine, la famille et l’enfance. Les œuvres du plus récent corpus Newcomer combinent deux moments de création différents ; l’artiste récupère afin d’y intervenir de nouveau, des tableaux auparavant abandonnés. Un geste dénotant sa recherche d’une démarche d’hybridation. Le sentiment de réconfort qui se dégage des œuvres repose sur une quête personnelle du sens et du bienêtre dans ce nouveau territoire qui devient le berceau de sa nouvelle famille.
Mina Hedayat est d’origine iranienne et vit à Laval depuis quelques années. Elle s’y est installée après un séjour de plus de quatre ans en Malaisie où elle a achevé ses études de doctorat en éducation des arts. Artiste passionnée et prolifique, elle a déjà participé à plusieurs expositions en solo et à une quarantaine d’expositions de groupe, que ce soit en Iran, en Corée, en Malaisie et à Hong Kong.
Membre de la Société des peintres iraniens et de l’Institut pour la promotion des arts visuels, en tant que peintre, elle privilégie l’art figuratif comme moyen d’expression, car celui-ci lui permet de dépeindre l’univers féminin tout en repoussant les frontières stylistiques et d’expérimenter diverses techniques. « Je crée des œuvres qui séduisent le spectateur afin de l’engager intellectuellement et émotionnellement dans une trame narrative où il doit lui-même compléter son histoire, à la manière d’une nouvelle littéraire ou d’un punch line à la fin d’une blague ! »
À Montréal, son travail a été présenté pour la première fois à la galerie MEKIC dans le cadre d’expositions solos en 2015 et 2016. Dans ces corpus récents, l’artiste développait une série inspirée de la peinture animalière, brouillant les frontières entre les animaux, l’humanité, les femmes et les beaux-arts. En 2019, sa participation au programme de laboratoire-résidence de Verticale marque pour l’artiste un premier projet en centre d’artistes autogérés.
Personal Details
Name: Mina Hedayat
Email: zemestonbahar@yahoo.com
www.minahedayat.com
Memberships
Member of society of Iranian painter (SIP) Iran.
Member of Vertical center of artists, Laval, Canada.
Member of Young Researchers Club.
Residency
2019, Studio residency, Vertical center, Canada
Solo exhibitions
- Center Communautaire Access, Laval, Canada, 2019
- Mekic Gallery, Montreal, Canada, 2016
- Mekic Gallery, Montreal, Canada, 2015
- Cube gallery, Malaysia, 2012
- Cube gallery, Malaysia, 2011
- Mehrva gallery, Iran, 2010
- Mehrva gallery, Iran, 2009
- Mehrva gallery, Iran, 2008
Group exhibitions
- Participated in Taiwan Art Fair, 2018
- Participated in 7th Annual Square Foot Show in USA, 2018
- Participated in Group exhibition in Mekic Gallery, Montreal, Canada, 2017
- Participated in Group exhibition in Zhinus gallery, Iran, 2017
- Participated in Group exhibition in Iranian Artists Forum, Iran, 2017
- Participated in Group exhibition in Saba gallery, Iran, 2017
- Participated in Group exhibition in O en Art Gallery, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada 2015
- Participated in Group exhibition, Toronto, Canada 2015
- Participated in Tres Carre group exhibition in L’espace Contemporaian, Montreal, Canada, 2015
10.Participated in Selfie group exhibition in Mekic Gallery, Montreal, Canada, 2015
11.Participated in AATF group exhibition, Malaysia, 2014
12.Participated in Art Expo of Malaysia, 2013
13.Participated in Hong Kong Contemporary Art Fair, 2013
14.Group exhibition, DTC, University Malaya, 2013
15.Group exhibition, Korean Woman’s Association, DTC, 2013
16.Group exhibition, Iranian Embassy, Malaysia, 2013
17.Group exhibition, Viva Home, International Woman’s Day, 2012
18.Group exhibition, Mika, Malaysian, Iranian & Korean Artists, 2012
19.Group exhibition, Art Seni Gallery, 2012
20.Group exhibition, Cube gallery, Batik Painting, 2012
21.Group exhibition, Cube gallery, Painting, 2011
22.Group exhibition, Wisma R& D, University Malaya, 2011
23.Group exhibition, Imam Ali art museum, 2010
24.Group exhibition of Society of Iranian Painters (SIP), 2010
25.Group exhibition, Nikzad art gallery, 2009
26.Group exhibition, Black & white photos, Art Center, 2009
27.Group exhibition, Printmaking, Nikzad art gallery, 2009
28.Group exhibition, Nikzad art gallery, 2009
29.Group exhibition, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2009
30.Group exhibition, Mellat gallery, 2009
31.Representation of first biennial, Color of kindness, 2009
32.Representation, Fajer festival, Kanoone-parvareshe-fekrie-koodakan , 2009
33.Selected in festival of painting, Farhangsaray dokhtaran, 2008
34.Group exhibition, Imam Ali museum, 2008
35.Group exhibition, kamaloddin Behzad School, 2008
36.Selected in festival of Tavallodi no, 2008
37.Group exhibition, Aghili art gallery, 2008
38.The 7th national biennial of Iranian contemporary painting, 2008
39.Selected in Photography exhibition in Tehran, 2008
40.Cultural center in Seoul, Korea, popular Persian painters Seoul exhibition, 2007
41.The big sale of painting and sculpture, 2007
42.The first festival of Talie zohoor in Qom, 2007
43.Group exhibition, Khaneye honarmandan, Mirmiran gallery, 2007
44. Representation of Persian painting in contemporary painting of Iran in Elahe
gallery, 2007
45. Group exhibition, Ebne Sina gallery, for the benefit of the psychical patients, 2007
46. Group exhibition, The first festival of Hozoor in Mashhad, 2006
47. Group exhibition, The first visual Arts festival of resistance, 2006
48. Group exhibition, The first festival visual Arts in Khanevadeh cultural center,
2006
49. Group exhibition, Festival of Fine Art in Niyavaran cultural center, 2006
50. Group exhibition, Festival 6th of Art in Marivan, 2006
51. Group exhibition, Laleh gallery, 2006
52. Group exhibition, The first exhibition of Drawing in Karaj, 2005
53. Group exhibition, Afrand gallery, 2005
Award
- Forth degree in forth festival of Tavalodi No, Iran, 2008.
- Select of photos festival of Tehran az negahe man, Iran, 2008.
- Third degree in workshop of Asmae Hazrate Zahra, Iran, 2008.
- First degree of Entrance Exam for Master of Art in Islamic Azad University, Iran, 2007.