SHIRIN MAZDEYASNA
Born in Tehran, Iran
Resides and works in New York State
EDUCATION
2019-2021
MA in Art Therapy, New York University, Steinhardt, Department of Art and Art Professions, NY, USA
2014-2017
Dual degree BAFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Liberal Arts, The New SchooL, NY, USA
(Parsons The New School of Design & Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Seen Scenes, curated by Stella Yoon, CREATE Council on the Arts Gallery, NY, USA
2024
What We Hold: Stories and Objects, curated by Stella Yoon, CREATE Council on the Arts Gallery, NY, USA
Seen Scenes, curated by Stella Yoon, CREATE Council on the Arts Gallery, NY, USA
2022
Spontaneous Gesture, curated by Randi Chalfin, Womenswork.Art Gallery, NY, USA
Ritual: Art and Witchcraft, juried, Womenswork.Art Gallery, NY, USA
2021
Inside Out, Virtual exhibition OF NYU Art Therapy Department, NY, USA
2020
All for one of a kind, Rosenberg Gallery, NY, USA
2019
Transient Emergence, Alchemical Studio, NY, USA
2018
LIC Arts Fall Salon, Plaxall Gallery, NY, USA
Chiaroscuro, Euridice Gallery, NY, USA
2017
Thesis Exhibition, 25 East Gallery, NY, USA
Digital Diaspora, 43 Brooklyn Gallery, NY, USA
2016
The Day After Tomorrow, 25 East Gallery, NY, USA
Labors of Love, Eugene Lang Skywalk, NY, USA
Generations X, A.I.R Gallery, NY, USA
2015
WOT FOR, NME Gallery, NY, USA
Reasonably Priced, NME Gallery, NY, USA
Making Conversations, Sheila Aronson Gallery, NY, USA
2014
Juried Parsons’ Festival 2014, Stephen Kellen Gallery, NY, USA
CONTRIBUTIONS & IMPACT
2025
Board Member, New York Art Therapy Association
Proposal Reviewer for 56th Annual Conference, American Art Therapy Association
Board Member, Global Young Mobeds Community
2024
Board Member, New York Art Therapy Association
Proposal Reviewer for 55th Annual Conference, American Art Therapy Association
Jury, 18th North American Zarathushti Community (NAZC) Awards, Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America
2022-present
Trauma Clinician Group, Organizer for local meetings connecting, Columbia and Greene Counties, NY, USA
2020-present
Art Therapy Advisory Committee, New York University
2019
Creative Editor, Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy, NYU, NY, USA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021
Teacher assistant, Trauma-Informed Creative Art Therapy Certificate Program, Antioch University Continuing Education Program, NY, USA
2019 & 2020
Teacher assistant, Global Histories of Art, Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University, NY, USA
AWARDS
2016
India China Institute Travel Grant
2014
Object of The Day, Juried Parsons’ Festival
2014-2017
Parsons’ Presidential Merit-Based, Dean’s, Chase, and Shiftman’s Scholarship