Interdisciplinary Visual Artist and Designer
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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
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
Bachelor of Arts, Azad University of Art and Architecture - 1999
Thesis: An Analysis of Image and Imagination in Persian Contemporary Poetry
