A Short Biography

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Rozita Moini-Shirazi is an Iranian-Canadian Multi-Disciplinary artist whose art addresses contemporary social-cultural issues. She works with various media including Painting, Illustration, Photography and installation.

Having lived in Iran until the age of twenty-one, Rozita experienced the horrors of the Iran-Iraq war. She First immigrated to Germany in 1984 and then to Canada in 1990.

Rozita Studied Communication design in Germany and continued her education at Emily Carr university earning her BFA.

Returning to Iran in 2003, she completed an MFA at Tehran’s University with a comparative study of three generations of Iranian women artists, from pre-revolution, post-revolution and the current generation.

As an art educator, Rozita also completed her M.Ed. at the University of Victoria with a focus in Art Education/Curriculum and Instruction in Higher education.

She currently lives in Richmond, BC working as an artist and teaching at Emily Carr University.

Rozita has exhibited her work widely across Canada and abroad. She experiments with testing the limits of image making in different media. Through her practice she has come to examine the role of image production in the mediation of our relationship with the real.