Shoora Majedian (born Tehran, 1981) emigrated to Toronto in 2011, and now lives and works in Vancouver, BC. She spent most of her childhood in Iran living with her grandparents, who are often subjects in her work. Raised within a religious society, Majedian uses her painting practice to dissect and interrogate accepted norms within Persian and Muslim culture. Now having a chance to view her adolescence from a distance (both through age and geography), her practice references the absurdity and contradictions she experienced growing up as a woman living in a Muslim country. Majedian mainly paints from memory as a way to construct individual and collective narratives that shed light on the socio-political elements of her heritage.
