Reviews

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2024  Stacey, Megan. Professor and artist Soheila Esfahani designs coin for Royal Canadian Mint: Silver and gold coins celebrate culture and history of Iranian Canadians. Western News, February 22.

2023    Erdogan-O’Connor, S., Ferrucci, G., MacDiarmid, R., Piccolo, J., Priewe, S., & Smith, S.E.K. 2023. “Between There and Here”: Surveying the Global Work of Diaspora, Migration, and Mobility- Engaged Museums. Western University
2023
Alvarenga, Carlos. Reflections on the In Between.” Critic at Large,  July 18.
2023  Stacey, Megan. “Art show addresses issues of race, gender, sexuality, and diaspora.” Western News,  May 19.
2023  “Waterloo artist to explore exhibition with public at Preston Gallery in Cambridge.” Cambridge Times, January 18.

2022  Lion,Valérie. “L’immigration, tout un art au Canada.” Attache ta tuque,  May 16.
2022 
Chaizemartin, Julie. “Des vies entre deux mondes.” Transfuge Magazine,  May 23.
2022 
Celeux-Lanval, Maïlys. “L’expérience de l’immigration questionnée par trois artistes femmes.”BeauxArts,  May 25.
2022 
Ambler, Annabelle. “ “L’art de Vivre”, l’art de la migration des symboles: une poétique de l’exil au Centre Culturel Canadien.Toute La Culture,  May 30.
2022 
Pasiechnik, Jenelle M. “An Account of Practice for the exhibition Translations, featuring the artwork of Jamelie Hassan and Soheila Esfahani (Campbell River Art Gallery, July 9 to September 2, 2020).” ARTiculate: Journal of Contemporary Art History,  V4, 2022

2020  Pasiechnik, Jenelle M. “Embodied Engagements: The Artwork of Jamelie Hassan & Soheila Esfahani in Translations.  Rungh Magazine, V7, NO.4

2019  RomboutMelissa & Tara Maacarenhas. “From Ship to Shore.”Above & Beyond: Canada’s Arctic Journal, October 31.
2019 
Aritcheta, Allyson. “[Review] Pattern (dis)Placement by Soheila Esfahani.”Looseleaf (Project 40 Collective), July 16.
2019  Kurd, Nadia. “Profiles on Practice: Soheila K. Esfahani.” Femme Art Review, June 2019.

2018  Bronstein, Noa. “Cultured Pallets: Translating the Global.” Rungh Magazine, V6, NO.1
2018  Beheiry, Valerie. “Portable Culture: Soheila Esfahani” Visual Arts News, September 6.
2018  Desveaux, Heather. “Considering ‘In-between’ Culture at Ross Creek Centre for the Arts.” The Chronicle Herald, April 23.

2017  Cappuccitti, Jessica. The Art of Urban Renewal in Windsor-Detroit. Canadian Art, November 28.
2017  Gazzola, Bart. “Owning Space: Material Girls.” The Sound STC.

2017 
Kim, Ju Hyun. “Power and Globalization.” Imprint, November 15.
2017  Interstice by Soheila Esfahani.” The Islamic Arts Magazine, October 15.
2017  Ip, Malgosia. “Patterns in Art and Mathematics.” Fields Notes, Vol 17:2, p.19.
2017  McKay, Staphanie. “Material Girls: All-Female Art Show Avoids Austere Gallery Tradition.” Saskatoon StarPhoenix, February 2.
2017  
“Women Get Spotlight in Art Exhibit at U of S.” CBC news, February 5.

2016  In-Between by Soheila Esfahani.” The Islamic Arts Magazine, October 1.
2016  Mason, Hailey.Inspiration from Antiquity.The Medium, September 12.
2016 
Griffin, Kevin. “Art Seen: Works by Artists of Iranian Heritage Explore What It Means to be Caught Between.Vancouver Sun, July 8.
2016
 
Dick, Terence. “Material Girls and Feminism.” Akimbo TV, season 1, episode 10.
2016
 
Samuel, Daniel. “Living in a Material WorldThe Varsity, February 7.

2015  Griffin, Kevin. “Atoms and Artists: The Spookiness of Being in Two Places at Once.Vancouver Sun, December 31.
2015 
Red Head Gallery 25th anniversary exhibition,  Artoronto.ca, December 2015.
2015  “The Couplets from Reed to Paper.” Skylife Magazine, Turkish Airlines, October 2015.
2015  
Fournier, Lauren. Material Girls” Takes Up Space at the Dunlop Canadian Art, April 2.
2015  Beatty, Gregory. “The Women Show.Prairie Dog Magazine, February 19.

2014  Neudorf, Kim. “The Souce at Rodman Hall in St. Catharines.” Akimblog, September 23.

2013  Snyder, Leah. “Written on the Body/ Politics of Poetry: Iranian Artists & the Power of the Script.” Mixed Bag Mag, July 17, 2013
2013  Reid, Robert. “Two Artists Cross Ornamental Cultural Boundaries.” The Record, January 15, C1.
2013  Neudorf, Kim. Brandon Tang & Soheila Esfahani at Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery.” Akimblog, February 5.

2012  The Islamic Arts Magazine “Working Across Cultures: An Interview with Soheila Esfahaniby Valerie Behiery
2012  The Record “Trio of Exhibitions Explores Multiculturalism” by Robert Reid

2011  Sharvand “Reading Tehranto in Buffalo” by Sima Sahar Zerehi
2011  Reid, Robert. Inspiration in the Workplace.” The Record, September 12, 2011, D1.
2011  Grand Magazine “Cultural Connections” by Veronica Ross

2010  The Star “Corporate Art: Not Just Pretty Pictures” by Emily Mathieu

2008  The Record “Let Life Surround You” by Robert Reid

2006  The Record “Diversity of Show Illuminates” by Robert Reid

2005  The Record “Blending East and West” by Robert Reid
2005  Rogers Cable Interview

2004  CKCO News Interview with Leslie Gordon

detail of painting by Soheila Esfahani