I’m Hoda Rahimian, born in January 1984 in Iran. Like every other child, since I picked up the pencil, I was painting based on the world around me, nature, and the feeling behind them, but this desire remained in me until now.

Besides, one of my hobbies was staring at paintings and pictures in books. I used to stare for hours at a miniature my mother had bought at the market. I studied the details of each image so carefully that they were slowly etched deep in my mind. I was so passionate about art; that My parents encouraged me to continue on this path.

I used to imitate the colorful world of painting. Then I started studying graphic design at university. At this time, attending “Karim Nasr” class changed my vision of painting’s world. This conversion led to my first solo painting exhibition in Tehran.

After that, I continued my studies in “Art Studies” for the master’s degree. My research toward the history of art has been a great help in paving the way for my paintings. A few years after graduating, I moved from Tehran to Mashhad. A sudden and emotional change eventually led to another solo exhibition in Mashhad. As I came to immerse myself in the world of imagination, my life shifted. I painted and created my own visual world in the shortest hours of my rest.

Statement

The world of my paintings is intertwined and full of surreal metaphors that reflect my feelings and thoughts. The symbols of the imaginary self, the empiricist self, the real me. The creatures that merge with the emotional moments of my life and then last forever. It is as if each of them is a piece of me. The part of me wants to live in different bodies and imaginary worlds. What I end up with is myself and the memories I have lived.

As an artist, often ask me why I paint what I paint? And the truth is that I can’t ignore my inner voice and not respond to its Persistent temptation to create the imaginary world and its creatures. For me, it’s like a miracle that I can project the world inside my head on the canvas…