MAHSA MERCI

Mahsa Merci, born in 1990 in Tehran, Iran, holds a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from Tehran University of Art and a Master of Painting from Azad University in Iran. She recently graduated from the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Merci has exhibited her works in over fifty solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Canada, UK, Belgium, Norway, Hong Kong, Italy, the UAE, Cyprus, and Iran. In 2021, her works were exhibited in The Other Art Fair in Los Angles, curated by Saatchi, and Toronto Art Fair in Toronto, Canada. Her works are internationally published in various magazines in Iran, the UK, Germany, the United States, Canada, Norway, and Denmark. She won Lambda Scholarship Foundation Canada – Les McAfee Memorial Award, Manitoba Scholarship, and MGS award. In 2022, she is shortlisted among 5 Rising Painters to discover by Artsy.