Lida Shanehchiyan

Lida is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary visual thinker who has started her formal artistic practice at the age of fifteen. Lida holds a Master of Design (MDes) degree from York

University and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from OCAD University.

She has worked as a visual artist, graphic designer, and researcher with prestigious educational institutions such as OISE University of Toronto, Learning Technologies at Ryerson University,

and financial organizations BMO and CIBC.

Lida’s interests lie in such areas as thinking toward complex human problems such as gender issues related to socio-psychological matters which is reflected in her artistic practice including her MDes thesis “Contradiction and Paradoxes: Political Censorship and Visual Representation of Images of Women in Contemporary Iran” (2009), Her collaborative work with Political

Prisoner Project with Dr. Shahrzad Mojab at OISE (2009 – present), and her MFA thesis

“Depression Behind the Agreeable Silence: Women, Migration, and Self-Censorship”(2019).

She has received media recognition from BBC Persian and Now Magazine, among others, for her outstanding artwork.

Editorial Design Studio Instructor, OCAD University

• Developed the course outline, and lesson plans.
• Taught principals of design ( theory, Typography, golden Ratio, Gestalt Theory, griding system, and layout Design).
• Taught advance methods of Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign as main tools for creating editorial design materials.
• Taught the difference between using principal of design for print. V.s screen-based design.
• Designed quizzes and studio projects for the students to evaluate both theoretical and studio based practice of the subject.
• Graded, provided constructive feedbacks.

Master of Fine Arts, OCAD University - 2019

Thesis: Depression Behind the Agreeable Silence: Women, Migration and Self-Censorship

Supervisor: Dr. Linda Carreiro

Master of Design, York University -2009

Thesis: Contradictions and Paradoxes: Political Censorship and Visual Representation of Women in Contemporary Iran

Supervisor: Professor Michael Longford

Bachelor of Arts, Azad University of Art and Architecture - 1999

Thesis: An Analysis of Image and Imagination in Persian Contemporary Poetry 

Supervisor: Professor Omid Ebrahim