About Simin

Having lived in both the East and the West, Simin’s artistic practice is informed by the diverse cultures she has directly experienced.

Her travels through space and time revealed a universal truth: that we are each searching for love, peace, and individual purpose. Simin sees the interactions between humanity’s diverse stories, cultural backgrounds, belief systems and sensibilities as having the potential to generate unity, compassion, and understanding.

What she creates is what she wants to bring into her world.

Exhibitions

• MAA, "Paint The Town" Labor Day Show, Kensington, MD, 2022
  
• RAL, "Sunflowers", Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD, 2022
  
• Yellow Barn Studio, "Small Work Show", Glen Echo, MD, 2022
• RAL, "Lost, Found and Looking Froward", Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD, 2022
• RAL, Juried Spring Show, Glenview Mansion, Rocville, MD, 2022
• MAA, "Nature of the Art" Show, Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, MD, 2022
• RAL  Juried Winter Show, Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD, 2022

1. MAA, Gifted, 10x10 Works, J Bender JCC's Goldman Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, 2021

• The Mansion at Strathmore, "Touch" 30th annual Juried Exhibition, North Bethesda, MD, 2021
• MAA Juried Member Show, Windridge Vineyard Summer Exhibition, Darnstown, MD, 2021
• Friends of  the Yellow Barn Studio, Small Works VI, Virtual, 2021
• RAL Juried Spring Show, Virtual, 2021
• The 26th Annual Juried Members' Show, Friends of Yellow Barn Studio, Virtual, 2020-21
• Friends of  the Yellow Barn Studio, Drawing & Water-Based Media Show, Virtual, 2020-2021
• RAL Juried Members' Winter Art Show, Virtual, 2020
• Nature's Inspiration, Three Artist Exhibit, Brookside Gardens Art Exhibit, Virtual, Silver Spring, MD, 2020
• MAA, Juried Member's Art Show, Abstract, Virtual Exhibit, 2020
• Friends of the Yellow Barn Studio, Annual Drawing & Water Media Virtual Exhibit, Bethesda, MD, 2020
• Cosmos Club, Cosmotographers Biennal Juried Show, Washington DC, 2019
• RAL, Juried Member's Show, Brookside Gardens, Silver Spring, MD, 2019
• MAA Exhibition, "Paint The Town," Labor Day Show,  Kensington, MD, 2019
• Yellow Barn Studio & Gallery, Drawing Show, Glen Echo, MD, 2019
• MAA Exhibition, Brookside Gardens, Silver Spring,  MD, 2019
• RAL, Juried Member's Show, Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD, 2019
• Yellow Barn Studio & Gallery, Gonzalo Ruiz Navarro Student Show, Glen Echo, MD, 2019
• Frends of the Yellow Barn Studio & Gallery, 24th Annual Friends of Yellow Barn Member Juried Show, Glen Echo, MD, 2018
• Glen Echo Park Partnership for Art & Culture: 48th Annual Labor Day Art Show, Glen Echo, MD 2018
• Cosmos Club,  Cosmotographers Biennal Juried Show, Washington DC, 2017
• Yellow Barn Studio & Gallery, Gonzalo Ruiz Navarro Student Show, Glen Echo, MD, 2017
• Cosmos Club, Fine Art Exhibition, juried , Washington DC, 2016
• Cosmos Club, Cosmotographers Biennal Juried Show, Washington DC, 2015
• Brookside School of Botanical Art & Illustration, Brookside Gardens, Silver Spring, MD, 2014

Publications

All Hallows Guild of Washington National Cathedral Gardens: Centennial Coloring Book (2016)
Adult coloring book, Bishop’s Gate, in celebration of the centennial of the All Gallows Guild of the National Cathedral,
illustrated by the artists of the Botanical Art Society of the National Capital Region (BASNCR)

Memberships

• Maryland Federation of Art, 2021_Present
  
• Rockville Art League, 2019_ present
• Yellow Barn Studio & Gallery, 2018_ present
• Montgomery Art Association, 2018_ present
• Smithsonian Associates, 2018-present
• Glen Echo Park Partnership for Art and Culture, 2017-present
• International Arts & Artists, 2017
• Botanical Art Society of the National Capital Region, 2014-2016

Education

 BA Sociology
University of California, Berkeley

Certificate Program in World Art History
Smithsonian Associates, Washington DC