Mahdi Mahdian

Biography

Mahdi Mahdian is a visual artist originally from Iran. He earned his BFA in Painting from the University of Tehran in 2013, where he studied within a modern, post-revolutionary academic context that blended traditional and contemporary approaches. In 2016, he completed a Master’s program at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts in Ukraine, where he received rigorous training in academic drawing and classical figurative painting. Most recently, he earned his MFA in Visual Arts from the University of Regina in Canada, where his practice evolved into a more expressive and conceptually engaged exploration of self-portraiture.

 

Mahdian’s current work is rooted in representational painting, with a focus on large-scale, life-size self-portraits that address themes of masculinity, vulnerability, and cultural displacement. By drawing from Persian mythology, historical narratives, and personal experience, he constructs allegorical compositions that fuse technical precision with symbolic meaning. He currently lives and works in Regina, Saskatchewan.