In 1995, Samira Darya graduated high school with a graphic Diploma and in 2005, she received her Fine Arts degree from Science and Culture University. She began studying painting and drawing with Hanibal Alkhas in 1998; the special bond formed between Alkhas and Darya deeply influenced her artworks. Having been a regular member of the Iranian Artist Forum and Visual Arts Association, Samira has participated in more than thirty group exhibitions in Iran, California, Australia, Istanbul, and Armenia, she has also attended numerous solo exhibitions in Iran. Darya also teaches children painting and drawing and has curated multiple exhibitions for the child – artists.

Artistic Biography

Samira Darya sometimes fills her canvas with floral and bestial patterns, combining and developing them throughout the canvas, and in some cases, she paints strange creatures and Human figures. Creatures, each prowling or dancing and rejoicing to present the audience with a concept, drowning them in their action and behavior. She gathers whatever she likes and detests in a grotesque act and sometimes, along the way, draws herself beside them to present the audience with a way to penetrate the painter’s mind so they would experience what the artist is surrounded by, fighting with, suffering from or passing through.