CURRICULUM
Parveneh Roudgar’s work originates its roots in the classic tradition of her country of origin Iran and in Italy. The inspiration of Roudgar derives fundamentally from four areas, within which is found a thematic route that starts from the classic western and Persian civilization and arrives to the expressive modules of the modern and contemporary sculpture. In the sculptures of Parvaneh Roudgar a particular meaning is found in the human images, that take shape in the maternity, in the passions and in the women figures which strong dynamism transform the original figurative elements into art forms that evoke great strength. Sometimes the power of the lines that draw the figures, and the marked curves of the body, reach to communicate the suffering, the pain, without still failing with the aesthetic dimension of the image in its complex.
Currently living in Canada, Roudgar has worked within different cultures, and this co-mingling of traditions is poignantly evocative within her different styles of work. Alongside her figurative works Roudgar has an extensive collection of geometric and abstract sculptures. Parvaneh Roudgar began her journey in art in 1986 at the Artistic Lyceum in Florence under the instruction of her Professor of Sculpture, Antonio Di Tommaso, and renowned Professor of Ceramics, Marcello Fantoni. Parvaneh concluded her art studies at the University of Eta' Libera of Florence and went on to specialize in ceramics, plaster and casting. She received her Certificate in Working with Stone at the Art School of Porta Romana in Florence and has since been the recipient of numerous prizes internationally. She has been teaching in various art colleges and in her private studios for the past 25 years.
Alongside having her works exhibited in many different countries in North America, Asia and Europe, in 2016, Parvaneh’s most recent work “Mother and Child on a Bike” was commissioned and permanently installed in the Inlet Skytrain Station in Port Moody (Canada). Her works are part of the collection of the Salsali’s Museum in Dubai and different projects have been displayed as outdoor sculptures in North America and Iran.
Awards
2009 Fine Arts Awards, Anacortes Art Festival, Anacortes, WA, USA
1993 Gadarte First Prize, Gadarte’s Art Competition, Florence, Italy
1992 First Prize in sculpture at the Giuseppe Pescetti’s Art Competition, Florence, Italy
1991 First International Prize at the Painting-Graphics-Sculpture-Poetry organized by ASAP, Florence, Italy
Commissions
Exhibitions
Memberships
Publications
2016 “Mother and Child on a Bike “installed permanent installation, Inlet Skytrain Station, Translink Evergreen Line,Project, Port Moody, BC, Canada
2016 “Horse”, Salsali Museum, Dubai
2009 “Cosmos Flower” outdoor sculpture installation, City of Anacortes, Washington
2000 “Temple of the mind” outdoor sculpture, various historical sites in Iran, Environmental Society of Iran
One woman exhibitions
2017 Tehran Art Centre, Tehran, Iran
2009 Port Moody Arts Center, Port Moody ,BC
2001 Italian Cultural Center, Vancouver
1996 Fine Arts Society (Casa di Dante, Florence)
1992 A.S.A.P, Florence
Joint Exhibitions
2020, Italian Cultural Centre
2019, Swell festival, Gold Coast, Australia
2019, Art Vancouver, International Art Fair, Vancouver
2018, Sculpture by the sea,Bondi beach, Sydney
2018, Farmanfarma Gallery, Tehran
2017 Port Moody Art Centre, Port Moody, BC, Canada
2016 Attar Symposium, Tehran, Iran
2016 Howe Street Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2013 Agora Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2013 Zirzamin Dastan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 Van Dusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2012 Vandusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 Vandusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2010 Port Moody Library, Port Moody, BC, Canada
2010 Place Des Arts, Coquitlam, BC, Canada
2010 Pera Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2009 Vandusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2009 Port Moody Arts Center, Port Moody, BC, Canada
2008 Vandusen Botanical Garden Vancouver, BC, Canada
2007 Blackberry Gallery, Port Moody, BC, Canada
2007 Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC, Canada
2007 District of North Vancouver City Hall, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
2006 Vandusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2006 West Vancouver Memorial Library, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2006 Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 West Vancouver Memorial Library, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, Canada
2005 Seyhoun Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2004 Places Des Arts, Coquitlam, BC, Canada
2003 Art Council of Burnaby, BC, Canada
2002 Portfolio Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2002 Halt’s Show Case, Vancouver, Canada
2002 Art in the City, Vancouver, Canada
2001 Ishtar Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2000 Venetian Dance, Vancouver, Canada
1999 Gruppo Donatello, Joint Exhibition with Antonio Di Tommaso, Florence, Italy
1998 Fine Arts Society “Casa di Dante”, Florence, Italy
1992 Fine Arts Society “Casa di Dante”, Florence, Italy
1991 Antica Compagnia del Paiolo, Florence, Italy
Sculpture Society of British Columbia
Gruppo Donatello’s Art Society
Casa di Dante’s Art Society
2013 “Sculpting teacher at PdA shows in the Big Apple”, Janice Warren, TriCity News, March 13
2013 “Agora Gallery Press Release”, MutualArt, New York, March 2013
2011 “Parvaneh Roudgar”, Antonio Frintino, September
2009 “PoMo Artist's Flower finds home in Washington”, TriCity News, November 24
2009 “Acclaimed sculptor to teach class at Place Des Arts”, TriCity News, January 2009