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SOHEILA ESFAHANI

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Soheila Esfahani
Soheila Esfahani grew up in Tehran, Iran, and moved to Canada in 1992. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario and her BA in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo. She is an award-winning visual artist and recipient of numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund. She is a recipient of 2016 Waterloo Region Arts Awards and was nominated for the Jameel Prize at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, UK in 2015. Her work has been exhibited across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax and collected by various public and private institutions, including the Canada Council’s Art Bank.  Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the Western University and is a member of the Red Head Gallery in Toronto. For more information, please visit her website.
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“The Immigrants: Canada 150”, custom ceramic decals on ceramic plates & collected blue & white ceramic plate

Recent work by Soheila

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Birds: Pattern (dis)Placed, 3D printed Resin, 2019
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“Cultured Pallets: SAIB”, acrylic on wooden shipping pallets, 24’x 48″x 10′, 2018
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Birds: Pattern (dis)Placed, 3D printed Resin, 2019
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“The Immigrants: Canada 150”, custom ceramic decals on ceramic plates & collected blue & white ceramic plates, 2017

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CURATORIAL ADVISORS:  Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner
WEB DESIGN: Tariq Hassan Gordon & Jade Williamson 
 
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Andreas Buchwaldt, Charlotte Egan, ​Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto, Mackenzie Smith, Jade Williamson
EMBASSY CULTURAL HOUSE ADVISORY CIRCLE:
Samer Abdelnour, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner and Lucas Stenning 
OUR STORY
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Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White.

In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

​London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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    • at the ECH
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      • Event 1: Revisiting "Ten Years"
    • Stop Extinction! Restore the Earth
    • YYZ World Tour
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    • Editorial Team & Advisors
    • Contributors
    • Governor General Laureates
    • In Memoriam
  • Background
    • Past Programming >
      • Exhibitions 1983-1990 >
        • Index of Curators
        • Index of Photographers
        • Index of Visual Artists
      • Film 1983-1990
      • Music 1983-1990 >
        • Index of Musicians
      • Performances 1983-1990 >
        • Index of Performers
    • Embassy Hotel History
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