CV

ARMIN SHOHRATI
Visual Artist, Filmmaker & Photographer
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Armin Shohrati is an Iranian visual artist, filmmaker, photographer, and graphic designer based in Ottawa. His interdisciplinary practice explores migration, memory, displacement, and emotional landscapes through video art, performance, photography, and installation.
His work is informed by experiences of migration and the psychological spaces created between belonging, loss, memory, and uncertainty. He often uses everyday objects, moving images, sound, and the body to create environments that invite audiences to engage with these experiences both physically and emotionally.
SELECTED ARTISTIC PRACTICE
Deep Sleep
Transdisciplinary Performance Project, 2025
A collaborative performance exploring migration, displacement, loss, and the search for belonging through the experience of sleep. The work uses a bed, glass vessels, sound, video, and audience participation to create a space where memory, vulnerability, and uncertainty intersect.
Origin Story
Performance Documentation, Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, 2024
Photo documentation of Origin Story performance.
Death in Venice
Video Installation Documentation, Ottawa Art Gallery
Video documentation of Neeko Paluzzi's video installation Death in Venice.
A Fine Discipline
Performance Art, Art School Confidential, Ottawa Art Gallery
Filming and documentary work for the performance led by Cara Tierney.
PHANTOMTITS
Photography & Documentation, Club SAW, Arts Court
Photography and documentation for the book launch and immersive photobooth project.
GRANTS & FUNDING
2025
Seed Grant — City of Ottawa
Deep Sleep Transdisciplinary Performance Project
2025
Articipate Grant — Shenkman Arts Centre
Deep Sleep Transdisciplinary Performance Project
SELECTED FILM & VIDEO
Pass It to Soodeh
Winner, Selfie Category — First Independent Short Film “Selfie20,” Tehran, 2025
Official Selection — Ojo Móvil Fest, International Cinema and Video Festival, 2024
Paranoia
Recognition and Certificate of Participation — International Fone Film Festival, Eastern Mediterranean University, 2014
EDUCATION
BA Visual Arts & Visual Communication Design
Eastern Mediterranean University (TRNC), Cyprus
2011–2015
Advanced Course in Film Directing
Higher Education Center for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Tehran
2018
Photography
House of Iranian Photographers, Tehran
2007
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Graphic Designer
Canada Border Services Agency, Ottawa
Creative Director
Tajrobeh Design Studio
Video Editor
AVATAR GROVE by Lorraine Gilbert
CONTACT
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
↑Back to Top