Awards

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2020  Ontario Arts Council Production Grant: Mid career Artist

2018  Women Who Inspire Awards, Coalition of Muslim Women, Kitchener, ON

2017  Canada Council for the Arts: Production Grant
2017 
Ontario Arts Council Production Grant: Mid career Artist

2016  Waterloo Region Arts Awards (Visual Arts category), Waterloo, ON
2016|12|08|06|04  Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant

2015  nominated for Jameel Prize, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

2014  Research/Creation Grant in Fine Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, co-applicant in multi-disciplinary project with Patrick Mahon (Western University, principal applicant) & Gu Xiong (University of Biritish Columbia)

2014  Ontario Arts Council Production Grant: Mid career Artist

2012  Region of Waterloo Arts Fund Production Grant, Waterloo, ON.

2011|08|05  Ontario Arts Council Production Grant: Emerging Artist

2010  University of Western Ontario Graduate Thesis Research Award

2010|09|08  University of Western Ontario Graduate Research Scholarship

2008  University of Western Ontario Graduate travel Grant

2004  Central Canada Semi-finalist: RBS Investments’ Canadian Painting Competition, Toronto, ON.

2003  Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery Volunteer Award, Waterloo, ON.

2003  Liz Edwards Memorial Award, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.

detail of painting by Soheila Esfahani