Soheyl Bastami

  
Soheyl is a Toronto based interdisciplinary artist. Born in Iran in 1987, he holds adegree in Graphic Design. From the beginning, he had an interest in sculptures, where finally in 2009, he taught himself how to create sculptures out of wood and metal. Most of his sculptures are figurative, where he focuses on works that 

show humans in their basic forms, hunting for knowledge about the world and themselves. 

After many group exhibitions across Iran,he held his first solo exhibition at Tehran (E1 Art Gallery) in 2016. He has attended several international symposiums and group exhibitions worldwide, where he collected several awards for his sculptures. Some of his sculptures are installed in anumber of cities in Iran, Denmark, 

Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and the Czech Republic, where the public can still visit them. 

Through all of his exhibitions, he has collected several prestigious awards, such as the second place in the International Contemporary Sculpture in Iran (Padideh) 2014, the special prize in the International Wood Sculpture Symposium in Italy (Castello Tesino) 2017, a Biafarin prize in NordArt 2017, and the first place in the International Wood Sculpture Symposium in the Czech Republic 2018, to name a few. 

Awards 

2021 Honorable Prize – 5th LIH PAO International Sculpture Biennial, Taiwan 

2018 Winner of International wood-sculpture Symposium, Czech Republic 

2017 Winner of Biafarin Prize - International Exhibition, NordArt. Budelsdorf, Germany 

2017 Special Prize: International Wood Sculpture Symposium, Castello Tesino, Italy 2017 

2014 Second Prize: International Symposium of Padideh Contemporary Sculpture, Mashhad, Iran 

2012 Receiving Honor Diploma from 19th International Festival of Gorgan Visual Arts, Gorgan, Iran 

2010 Second Prize: 6th International Festival of Sand Sculpture, Babolsar, Iran 

2009 Second Prize: 5th International Festival of Sand Sculpture, Babolsar, Iran 

 
Symposiums 

2018 International Sculpture Symposium, St. Blasien, Germany 

2018 International wood-sculpture Symposium, Ringkobing, Denmark 

2018 International wood-sculpture Symposium, Czech Republic 

2017 International Sculpture Symposium, St. Blasien, Germany 

2017 International Wood Sculpture Symposium, Castello Tesino, Italy 

2017 International Sculpture Symposium, Davos, Switzerland 

 
2017 International Wood Sculpture Symposium, Brienz, Switzerland 

2016 International wood-sculpture Symposium, Sonderborg, Denmark 

2016 International wood-sculpture Symposium, Sur-En, Switzerland 

2015 International wood-sculpture Symposium, Ringkobing, Denmark 

2014 International Symposium of Padideh Contemporary Sculpture, Mashhad, Iran

Exhibitions 

2020 Group Exhibition – Full Length… – e1ArtGallery, Tehran, Iran 

2020 Group Exhibition The Memoires of the Samite-Wearing Lady Shirin Gallery, Tehran, Iran 

2020 Group Exhibition WEP Artspace at the Iran Switzerland chamber of commerce, Tehran, Iran 

2019 Group Sculpture Exhibition ,Ace Gallery, Tehran, Iran 

2018 International Exhibition, NordArt. Budelsdorf, Germany 

2018 Group Exhibition (winners of sculpture symposium), Art Gallery Atrebates, Italy 

2017 International Exhibition, NordArt. Budelsdorf, Germany 

2016 Solo Exhibition, E1 Artgallery, Tehran, Iran 

2006 - 2015 20 Group Exhibition in Iran