ABOUT
I am a Toronto-based artist and educator with an architectural background, working at the intersection of geometric art, traditional craft, and digital fabrication. My practice translates centuries-old geometric pattern systems into architecturally-scaled sculptures, spatial installations, and public artworks — carrying cultural traditions into contemporary spaces and connecting the people who move through them to each other and to the natural world.
Born in Japan and raised in Iran and Canada, I have been living and working in Toronto for most of my life. Before launching my full-time art practice in 2024, I spent a decade at Moriyama and Teshima Architects and Superkül delivering complex, award-winning architectural projects. The technical rigour and spatial thinking of that background are embedded in everything I make.
My art practice is rooted in field research: between 2022-23 I travelled to 17 countries and over 40 cities studying geometric arts in historically significant Islamic regions and training with master geometers and craftspeople. My work has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council, most recently exhibited at the Ismaili Centre Toronto, Urbanspace Gallery, the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, and DesignTO, and featured in Azure Magazine, Dezeen, and the Globe and Mail amongst others. I teach studio and digital craft courses at Toronto Metropolitan University and have lectured on the history of Islamic geometric arts at the King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London.
WHY GEOMETRY
Geometry is a mathematical field that helps us understand the most essential building blocks of the natural world and shape our built environment. It is at once structure and void, process and product, functional and aesthetic. It consists of immutable forms yet unleashes endless permutations. It is all of these tensions — and possibilities — that keep me hooked.
Geometry is also a spiritual language, and a universal one. In traditional Islamic architecture and design, geometric patterns gesture at the multiplicity within universal oneness, refracting multitudes while simultaneously pointing towards unity and totality. Geometry is a shared vocabulary used across cultures and throughout our natural world — from Moroccan tilework, to Gothic cathedral vaulting, to Japanese Kumiko screens.
For me, the act of creation is spiritual. I aspire to produce works that invite us to contemplate the interconnected nature of the universe, our cross-cultural relationships, and our relationship to the natural world we are all part of.
SERVICES
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Site-specific artworks for public and private spaces.
Geometric, modular, scalable, built to last and inspire.
Medium selected to fit each project — from metal to wood and plastics. -
Bespoke ceilings, walls, and spatial elements.
Integrating art into architecture from concept through fabrication + installation. -
Integrating Islamic art and architectural heritage into new builds, renovations, and cultural institutions.
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Culturally informed, hands-on, educational arts programming rooted in Islamic heritage.
For institutions, corporations, and cultural festivals.