Bahareh Karamifar was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1984. In the summer of 2008, she received her BA in Graphic Design from University of Art located in Tehran, Iran. She completed her M.F.A in Studio Art in painting in 2011...
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Bahareh Karamifar was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1984. In the summer of 2008, she received her BA in Graphic Design from University of Art located in Tehran, Iran. She completed her M.F.A in Studio Art in painting in 2011 at Michigan State University. In Fall 2014, she began her M.F.A in Sculpture at University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, and graduated with honors in August 2017. Karamifar has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Eli and Edythe Art Museum, Cowell House and (SCENE) Metrospace, East Lansing, Michigan, Loosen Art gallery in Millan and Giulio Cavazza gallery in Bologna, Italy, Club Solo in Breda, Netherlands, and CICA Museum in Korea. Her work has been reviewed and featured in magazines such as Muse and Code-Switch Journal of Visual Arts and Culture. She has won various awards including Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency Fellowship, James J. Rizzi Academic and Artistic merit scholarship, Special Research and dissertation completion Fellowship. In 2013, Karamifar received the "summer research abroad money" grant to travel to Mexico which was followed by a "research enhancement" award to further intensify her research for her MFA show. In 2016 Karamifar completed a commissioned piece " Inside Out, A Project for Celebration of Life ''. She designed and built two large-scale site specific murals for the Clinical Translational Research Center in Gainesville Florida.