We know Sima Shahmoradi, a contemporary painter and designer, with her unique paintings, similar to refracted reflections of portraits, objects, and landscapes on a mirrored surface. Shahmoradi was born in Isfahan. She started her art studies at Isfahan Art University and received her bachelor's degree in painting. Then she went to the Tehran University of Arts and completed her graduate studies in this field in 1997. Shahmoradi exhibited her works for the first time in 1995 in the Isfahan Modern Art Gallery as a group exhibition. Her first solo exhibition was held in Tehran's Barg Gallery in 2000. Shahmoradi is a prolific artist and has had numerous group and individual exhibitions in galleries in Iran, such as Haftan, Nian, and Homa. In 2010, she participated in Laura Orvieto's illustration competition, which was held in Bologna, Italy, with the theme of the Troy myth, and was awarded as the chosen artist. Also, one year after, she won the Belgrade Biennial Golden Pen for illustrating the book Legend of the Golden Tang. Shahmoradi's first international appearance took place in 2019 in Siddhartha Gallery Nepal, and her artworks were displayed in a group exhibition.

Her unique technique creates a reflective effect by folding the paper and sticking it on the canvas's surface. It is as if the image of her subjects is reflected on the surface of a mirror-like geometric grid. The final image gives a fuzzy shadow of the original elements. The quality of these surfaces is reminiscent of Iranian-Islamic architectural mirror work that artists such as Monir Farmanfarmaiyan used in their work, with the difference that in Monir's works, these structures were reconstructed in new formats. Still, in Shahmoradi's paintings and designs, we are faced with the "representation" of these structures. The subjects of this series of her works include combinations of still life, natural landscapes, and human figures, and her dealings with these subjects often have a lyrical and poetic tone. These works are due to that old metaphor that considers art a mirror equal to life or a shadow of the truth. But the refraction of this mirror and breaking of the image of reality-truth takes these works beyond the long-standing boundaries of this old interpretation and emphasizes the role of the painting medium itself in distorting the external reality-truth and realizing the inner reality-truth of art. In recent years, she has had different experiences in design. In these works, which often deal with the subject of still life, she has a representational behavior, but by interfering with the visual and perspective scales, she reduces the depth of the space and inclines the objects towards the surface of the canvas.