Marjan Babaie Nasr
She graduated in Graphics and completed her university studies in Music (Opera singing) at the Conservatory of Tehran. Once again she completed her study of Painting to achieve her bachelor’s and Masters’s Degree from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna. She participated in various exhibitions of Paintings around the world, including Tehran, Bologna, Milan, Venice, Ferrara, Ravenna, Berlin, as well as The Louvre Museum in Paris. She also performed multiple times as a Classical singer (Mezzo Soprano). Marjan was working as a Restorer of Antique Italian paintings, being an Assistant Professor, a Painter, and a Classical singer. She has experience in playing the Piano and the Guitar, alongside various physical Sports including Swimming and Martial Arts, in which she became the runner-up in the Tehran state. She is versed in the languages of Persian, Italian, and English.
EDUCATION
2019 Master’s Degree in Visual Arts (Painting) – Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Italy.
2017 Bachelor’s Degree (Painting) – Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Italy.
2009 Associate Degree. Classical Music & Operatic Singing. Rahil conservatory of Music of Tehran
1999 Diploma in Graphics- Tehran Art School, artistic studies (Graphics, Drawing, Chromatology, Art History)
SIGNIFICANT WORK EXPERIENCE
Teaching watercolor and acrylic and drawing , my home studio, 2024- current
Teaching watercolor and acrylic in “Giggling Pig Art Studio”- Guilford, CT, March 2025- current
2022-23 -Ravenna Academy of Fine Arts, Assistant. Bachelor’s degree, Professor Andrea Chiesi
2020/2022- Bologna Academy of Fine Arts, Assistant. Master’s degree, Professor Massimo Pulini
2022- Artistic collaboration and design for the jewelry company ‘CINDY CHAO The Art Jewel’ January
March 2017-23 – Camillo Tarozzi restoration laboratory – Bologna. Pictorial restorer
Occasional collaboration in the restoration of Italian paintings and frescoes by important artists of the XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII centuries.
2019 -Karios Restoration-Forli- Pictorial restorer. Fresco restoration in a private villa, Forlì, Italy
Teaching Arts privately (drawing, painting by Acrylic & Watercolor, Chromatology, Bologna, Italy 2013- 2023
2001—2007 Art teacher at summer camps and art schools – Tehran
ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES
– Painting “Life” Published on book cover for “The Abrogation of Love” by Antonio Albanese
October 2019- Teatro del Baraccano, Bologna, Italia.
and September 2021- San Rocco Oratory, Bologna, Italy.
– 25 October 2020- 25 February 2021- wall painting project in an historical building “Agricola e Vitale Osteria”, Santo Stefano square in historical center of Bologna, Italy.
And other wall paintings for private houses or public places like “Arena del Sole” Teater, Bologna, Italy.
PARTICIPATION IN EXHIBITIONS AND CONCERTS
United States :
– November 15,16, 2025- Shoreline Art Trail Open studio, Guilford, CT.
– September 9- October 30 2025 personal Gallery exhibition, Guilford Art Center, CT.
– July 26 Old Lyme Art Festival. CT
– July 25-September 11, 104 Elected Artists Exhibition, Lyme Art Gallery. CT
– 19-21 July 2025, Guilford Green Art festival. CT
– 1-3 October 2024 Madison art festival. CT
– 9-29 September 2024 exhibition, Guilford Art Center. CT
– July 26 – September 4 2024, “play, pastimes & recreation” exhibition, Spectrum Art Gallery, Centerbrook, CT.
– July 19-21 2024, Guilford Green Art Festival. CT
– Aprile 19-30 2024 Guilford Art League exhibition, Guilford Community Center, CT
Italy :
– June 8 – October 15 2023- exhibition “la rosa e il nome”, Fineco Bank, under the historical two towers, Bologna historical center.
– May15 2022- April 5 2023- Personal painting exhibition & Concert – Piano Piano Bar-Restaurant, Main square of historical center, Bologna, Italy
– January 27- February 6 2023, Personal Exhibition for Bologna Art City 2023 – Piano Piano Bar-Restaurant, Piazza Maggiore, Bologna, Italy
– May 7– 15 2022, Personal Exhibition for Bologna Art City 2022 – Piano Piano Bar-Restaurant, Piazza Maggiore, Bologna, Italy
– October 8 -November 14 2020- Personal Exhibition “Sher o Sharab” (poetry and wine) – Galleria B4, Bologna – Italia
– November 2019- Exhibition “I give you an emotion” – Galleria Spazioporpora, Milan, Italy
– June 2019- Exhibition “New cities on the edge of the sea” – Cervia, Italy
– June 2018- Exhibition ‘Right To The City – Atlas of Transitions Biennale’ – Bologna, Italy
– June-August 2018- Concert and personal exhibition “Joy, Peace, Color” – San Benedetto Church, Bologna, Italy
– March 2018- International exhibition “Violence against women” 2018 – Berlin, Germany
– November 2017- Exhibition ” Festival of the Arts of Ferrara – Giving voice to silence” Ferrara, Italy
– November 2017- Exhibition “Infinite Thought” – Galleria Spazioporpora, Milan, Italy
– September 2017- Exhibition “Infinite Silence” – Francoise Calcagno Art Studio, Venice, Italy
– June 2017- Exhibition and concert “And it’s summer! – Nature and the Colors of Light” – Palazzo Scroffa, Ferrara, Italy
– June 2017- International Contemporary Art Fair – Sala Carrousel, LOUVRE Palace, Paris, FRANCE
– January 2017Exhibition and concert “Woman & Art… feminine creativity” – Palazzo Scroffa,Ferrara, Italy
– September 2016, Concert and exhibition for “Slow Reading Project – Evening in tribute to Lodovico Ariosto” – Palazzo Marfisa, Ferrara, Italy
– May 2016- Artistic project “Osmotic Pressures – Atypical forms of urban relations” – Ex Sani barracks, Bologna, Italy
– May 2016- Exhibition and concert “Life is art – Expressions that show the soul” Ferrara, Italy
– January 2016- Exhibition and concert for the “Festival of the arts, 3rd edition – Beauty” -Grotte del Boldini, Ferrara – Italy
– October 2015- Clinica Ferrara , Surgeon’s day-, Ferrara, Italy
– October 2015- Special Prize for the Technique “4th Young Talent Competition”, Ferrara, Italy
– September 2015 Exhibition for the “3rd Festival of the Arts – Beauty and Nature” – Association, Cultural Olympia Morata – Italy
– August 2015, Finalist at the “Marina di Ravenna 2015 Award” – Marina di Ravenna, Italy
– June 2015- Concert and Exhibition for the “3rd Festival of the Arts – Beauty between Art and Taste” –Estense Castle, Ferrara, Italy
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
Persian : Native speaker
Italian: Complete professional knowledge
English: Professional knowledge
OTHER KNOWLEDGE
o Moderate use of Word, Photoshop, Corel
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