Aileen
Bahmanipour

Aileen Bahmanipour (b.1990-Tehran) is an Iranian-Canadian visual artist. After ten years of living and working on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl ̓ ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, known as Vancouver, and in Bella Coola Valley, the traditional territory of Nuxalk people, She has recently moved to Grande Prairie, Alberta, to teach visual arts at the Northwestern Polytechnic. She has received her BFA in Painting from Tehran University of Art and her MFA in Visual Arts from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She has been a member of the Continuing Studies and Sessional faculty at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Bahmanipour has exhibited her works internationally as well as in Canada, including her solo and group exhibitions at the GlogauAIR (Berlin), Banff Centre for the Arts, Alternator Centre for the Contemporary Arts (Kelowna), Vancouver’s grunt gallery, Burrard Arts Foundation, Artspeak, Two Rivers Gallery (Prince George), and Aaran Art gallery (Tehran). 
She is the recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant in 2017, the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Artist Fund in 2019, the Early Career Development grant from BC Arts Council in 2019, the Linda and Richard Singleton Endowment Fund in 2022, the Canada Council for the Arts and BC Arts Council’s grants in 2021-2023. Bahmanipour’s art has been reviewed and featured in Femme Art Review and ThimbleBerry and is part of the permanent collection at the Two Rivers Gallery in Prince George, BC.