CURRICULUM
Parvaneh Roudgar is an acclaimed international artist with works exhibited in different cities around the world. She began her journey in art in 1986 in Florence and worked with renowned artists such as Antonio Di Tommaso and Marcello Fantoni. Parvaneh has been teaching sculpture since 1994 in Florence and Vancouver. with over 38years of experience as an artist, She has had many national and international exhibitions and has been the recipient of numerous prizes and commissions.
Living in Canada for the last 26 years, Parvaneh has worked within different cultures, and this co-mingling of traditions is poignantly evocative within her different styles of work. Alongside her figurative works, she has an extensive collection of geometric and abstract sculptures. These “Construction Sculptures” arise from the analyses of the concept of “geometric abstraction”: an analysis deriving from an ancient Persian culture which has been characterised by such qualities for thousands of years.
Parvaneh’s works are exhibited in many different countries in North America, Asia, Europe and Australia. Her most recent outdoor exhibition was in Sydney 2018 at the Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi.In 2020 her sculpture “Migration” was installed permanently in Currumbian Wildlife Sanctuary in Gold Coast, Australia. In 2017, Parvaneh’s work “Mother and Child” was commissioned and permanently installed in the Inlet Skytrain Station in Port Moody (Canada) as part of the city’s Evergreen Project. In 2009, her work, “Cosmos Flower”, was one of the winners of the outdoor sculpture competition for BC and Washington and was exhibited in the city for two years. This competition was organized by the city of Anacortes, Washington.
In 2000, Parvaneh was commissioned by the Environmental Society of Iran to design and create a model for an outdoor sculpture. The project has been reproduced in large numbers to be installed in traditional homes and historical sites across the country. She was also commissioned in the same year by the Mayor of Tehran (Iran) to create a trophy to reward various individuals among a group of environmental preservationists.
Parvaneh’s works have been selected as part of the collection of the Salsali’s museum in Dubai and different projects have been exhibited as permanent 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
Exhibitions
2024_ Roundhouse Community Center
2024_POMO25th Anniversary Exhibitions
2023,New Art Foundation of Vancouver
2022,True Colour Art Gallery, North Vancouver
2022,FEIART, White Rock, BC
2022,Italian Cultural Center,Burnaby,Vancouver
2020,Art Vancouver , International Art Fair, Vancouver
2020. Installation of Migration at the entrance of Currumbian Wildlife Sanctuary, Gold Coast, Australia. 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, Art center, Tehran
2017 Port Moody Art Centre, Port Moody, BC, Canada
2016 Attar Symposium, Tehran, Iran
2014-2016 Howe Street Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2013 Agora Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2013 Zirzamin Dastan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 VanDusen 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