Email | rambod.vala@gmail.com
EDUCATIONAL
BACKGROUND
Master
of Fine Arts | Art Theory and Practice | Northwestern University | Evanston
| USA | 2015
Bachelor of Fine Arts | Visual Communication | Enghelab College of Art and Architecture | Tehran | Iran | 2011
Associate’s Degree| Computer Graphics | Tehran Information Technology Institute | Tehran | Iran | 2008
Bachelor of Fine Arts | Visual Communication | Enghelab College of Art and Architecture | Tehran | Iran | 2011
Associate’s Degree| Computer Graphics | Tehran Information Technology Institute | Tehran | Iran | 2008
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor at School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Visual Communication: Revolution will be designed | Summer 2016
Instructor at School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Visual Communication: Rethinking Ad Culture | Spring 2016
Lecture and Screening | Graphic Design Graduate Class | University of Illinois at Chicago | USA | Fall 2015
Lecture and Screening | Art Appreciation Class | Truman College | Chicago | USA |Summer 2015
Instructor | Adobe Creative Suite Practicum | Northwestern University | Spring 2014 and 2015
Teacher Assistant | Introduction to Painting | Northwestern University |Spring 2015
Teacher Assistant | Introduction to Time-based Media | Northwestern University | Fall 2014
Instructor at School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Visual Communication: Rethinking Ad Culture | Spring 2016
Lecture and Screening | Graphic Design Graduate Class | University of Illinois at Chicago | USA | Fall 2015
Lecture and Screening | Art Appreciation Class | Truman College | Chicago | USA |Summer 2015
Instructor | Adobe Creative Suite Practicum | Northwestern University | Spring 2014 and 2015
Teacher Assistant | Introduction to Painting | Northwestern University |Spring 2015
Teacher Assistant | Introduction to Time-based Media | Northwestern University | Fall 2014
EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE
Graphic Designer at Kadist Art Foundation | San Francisco and Paris | Aug. 2015-Current
Studio Manager at Inigo Manglano-Ovalle’s Studio | Chicago | Aug. 2015-Current
Video Editor at Jason Salavon’s Studio | Chicago | Sep. 2015 – Mar. 2016
Artist Assistant at Irena Haiduk’s Studio | Chicago | Summer 2015
Graphic Designer at Studio Tehran | Nov. 2007 – Jun. 2013
Graphic Designer at Studio Kargah | Tehran | Mar. 2010 – May 2010
Studio Manager at Inigo Manglano-Ovalle’s Studio | Chicago | Aug. 2015-Current
Video Editor at Jason Salavon’s Studio | Chicago | Sep. 2015 – Mar. 2016
Artist Assistant at Irena Haiduk’s Studio | Chicago | Summer 2015
Graphic Designer at Studio Tehran | Nov. 2007 – Jun. 2013
Graphic Designer at Studio Kargah | Tehran | Mar. 2010 – May 2010
EXHIBITIONS/
PRESENTATIONS
PRESENTATIONS
Brown People Are the Wrens in the Parking Lot | Group Exhibition | Initiated by William Pope.L | Logan Center Gallery | Chicago | 2017
Bread and Salt | Video Screening | The 8thFloor | Rubin Foundation | New York | 2017
Front & Center | Group Exhibition | HydePark Art Center | Chicago | 2017
Challenges of Imagination | Lecture-Performance | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | San Francisco | 2017
Dangerous Professors | Group Exhibition | Triumph Gallery | Chicago | 2017
Reproducibles | Espacio El Dorado | Bogotá | Colombia | 2017
AZAD | Azad Art Gallery Collaborative Design Project | Graphic Design Festival Paris | Musée Des Arts Décoratifs | Paris | France | 2017
Lucid Figurations: Movie Poster and Film Art Symposium | Block Museum | Evanston | USA | 2016
AZAD | Azad Art Gallery Collaborative Design Project | Hinterland Galerie | Vienna | Austria | 2016
Wake-Up Stories | CLUB SOLO | BREDA | NETHERLANDS | 2016
Lucchiche (shimmering): A Video Art Symposium | Ponte di Ferro | Carrara | Italy | 2016
Signs from Iran | Museum for Islamic Art | Jerusalem | 2016
Visual Arts Exhibition | Luminarts Cultural Foundation | Chicago | 2016
Authoritative Design | Azad Art Gallery Collaborative Design Project | Sheikh Zayed Gallery | Beirut | Lebanon | 2016
Limited Access 6 | Festival of moving images, sound and performance | Tehran | Iran | 2016
Age of Consent | Block Museum | Evanston | USA | 2015
Post Past | Invitational Poster Exhibition | Hermitage Museum | St. Petersburg | Russia | 2015
Chiran | An Invitational Poster Exhibition | Gorgan, Iran and Shanxi University, China | 2015
Talk and Screening of Shahed | Persian Discussion Nights | Northwestern University | 2015
12th Festival of "Image of the Year" | Invitational Poster Exhibition | Tehran | Iran | 2015
To Forget | Screening of "Dey" Night | Temple University | Rome | Italy | 2015
Drawing Words | Typographic Posters Exhibition | Tel Aviv | Israel | 2014
Parishani | Screening of "Dey" Night | Art Cinema OFFoff | Belgium | 2014
Golden Bee 11 | Global Bienniale of Graphic Design | Moscow | Russia | 2014
11th Festival of "Image of the Year" | Invitational Poster Exhibition | Tehran | Iran | 2014
Surveilling the Naked City | Video Art from Tehran | Oslo | Norway | 2013
The 6th China International Poster Biennial | Hangzhou | China | 2013
2nd MUIP Biennial | Marmara University International Poster Biennial | Istanbul | Turkey | 2012
Video-Therapy, Session one: Recovery | Video Screening | Stueben Gallery, Pratt Institute | New York | USA | 2012
Right to Left | Graphic Design from the Arab World and Iran | Berlin | Germany | 2012
TehraNYC | Group Exhibition | New York | USA | 2012
The 5th China International Poster Biennial | Hangzhou | China | 2011
The 5th Taiwan International Poster Design Award | Taiwan | 2011
Pattern | A Group Poster Exhibition Titled| Yazd | Iran | 2011
2nd Chicago International Poster Biennial | USA | 2010
The 3rd Festival of Damoonfar(Faber-Castell) Visual Arts | Tehran | Iran | 2010
Golden Bee 9, Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design | Russia | 2010
Divarkoob Group Poster Exhibition | Isfahan, Shirza, Mashad, Tehran | Iran | 2010
21st Chaumont International Poster Festival Competition | France | 2010
Group exhibition titled “Tarahane Azad” | Azad Art Gallery | Tehran | Iran | 2010
“Generazione Verde” Group Poster Exhibition (Graphic Designers Born After the 1979 Revolution in Iran) | Cartacanta Festival Expo | Civitanova Marche | Italy | 2009
The 3rd International Graphic Biennial of the Islamic World | Tehran | Iran | 2009
The 7th Trnava International Poster Triennial | Slovakia | 2009
The 3rd World Biennial Exhibition of Student Posters | Novi Sad | Serbia | 2008
Good 50X70 Poster Exhibition (STDs Category) | Milan | Italy | 2008
The 2nd Int’l Annual Exhibition of Dictionary Illustrations | Tehran | Iran | 2007
Bread and Salt | Video Screening | The 8thFloor | Rubin Foundation | New York | 2017
Front & Center | Group Exhibition | HydePark Art Center | Chicago | 2017
Challenges of Imagination | Lecture-Performance | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | San Francisco | 2017
Dangerous Professors | Group Exhibition | Triumph Gallery | Chicago | 2017
Reproducibles | Espacio El Dorado | Bogotá | Colombia | 2017
AZAD | Azad Art Gallery Collaborative Design Project | Graphic Design Festival Paris | Musée Des Arts Décoratifs | Paris | France | 2017
Lucid Figurations: Movie Poster and Film Art Symposium | Block Museum | Evanston | USA | 2016
AZAD | Azad Art Gallery Collaborative Design Project | Hinterland Galerie | Vienna | Austria | 2016
Wake-Up Stories | CLUB SOLO | BREDA | NETHERLANDS | 2016
Lucchiche (shimmering): A Video Art Symposium | Ponte di Ferro | Carrara | Italy | 2016
Signs from Iran | Museum for Islamic Art | Jerusalem | 2016
Visual Arts Exhibition | Luminarts Cultural Foundation | Chicago | 2016
Authoritative Design | Azad Art Gallery Collaborative Design Project | Sheikh Zayed Gallery | Beirut | Lebanon | 2016
Limited Access 6 | Festival of moving images, sound and performance | Tehran | Iran | 2016
Age of Consent | Block Museum | Evanston | USA | 2015
Post Past | Invitational Poster Exhibition | Hermitage Museum | St. Petersburg | Russia | 2015
Chiran | An Invitational Poster Exhibition | Gorgan, Iran and Shanxi University, China | 2015
Talk and Screening of Shahed | Persian Discussion Nights | Northwestern University | 2015
12th Festival of "Image of the Year" | Invitational Poster Exhibition | Tehran | Iran | 2015
To Forget | Screening of "Dey" Night | Temple University | Rome | Italy | 2015
Drawing Words | Typographic Posters Exhibition | Tel Aviv | Israel | 2014
Parishani | Screening of "Dey" Night | Art Cinema OFFoff | Belgium | 2014
Golden Bee 11 | Global Bienniale of Graphic Design | Moscow | Russia | 2014
11th Festival of "Image of the Year" | Invitational Poster Exhibition | Tehran | Iran | 2014
Surveilling the Naked City | Video Art from Tehran | Oslo | Norway | 2013
The 6th China International Poster Biennial | Hangzhou | China | 2013
2nd MUIP Biennial | Marmara University International Poster Biennial | Istanbul | Turkey | 2012
Video-Therapy, Session one: Recovery | Video Screening | Stueben Gallery, Pratt Institute | New York | USA | 2012
Right to Left | Graphic Design from the Arab World and Iran | Berlin | Germany | 2012
TehraNYC | Group Exhibition | New York | USA | 2012
The 5th China International Poster Biennial | Hangzhou | China | 2011
The 5th Taiwan International Poster Design Award | Taiwan | 2011
Pattern | A Group Poster Exhibition Titled| Yazd | Iran | 2011
2nd Chicago International Poster Biennial | USA | 2010
The 3rd Festival of Damoonfar(Faber-Castell) Visual Arts | Tehran | Iran | 2010
Golden Bee 9, Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design | Russia | 2010
Divarkoob Group Poster Exhibition | Isfahan, Shirza, Mashad, Tehran | Iran | 2010
21st Chaumont International Poster Festival Competition | France | 2010
Group exhibition titled “Tarahane Azad” | Azad Art Gallery | Tehran | Iran | 2010
“Generazione Verde” Group Poster Exhibition (Graphic Designers Born After the 1979 Revolution in Iran) | Cartacanta Festival Expo | Civitanova Marche | Italy | 2009
The 3rd International Graphic Biennial of the Islamic World | Tehran | Iran | 2009
The 7th Trnava International Poster Triennial | Slovakia | 2009
The 3rd World Biennial Exhibition of Student Posters | Novi Sad | Serbia | 2008
Good 50X70 Poster Exhibition (STDs Category) | Milan | Italy | 2008
The 2nd Int’l Annual Exhibition of Dictionary Illustrations | Tehran | Iran | 2007
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
Center Program | HydePark Art Center | Chicago 2017
Luminarts Fellowship | Luminarts Cultural Foundation | Chicago | 2016
Edes Runner-up Prize | The Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation | 2016
University Fellow | Northwestern University | Evanston | USA | 2013-2015
Stephan Bundi Jury Award | The 5th China International Poster Biennial | 2011
Typographic Excellence | The 2nd Chicago International Poster Biennial | 2010
Runner-up Award | the 3rd Damoonfar (Faber-Castell) Visual Arts Festival | Iran| 2010
Luminarts Fellowship | Luminarts Cultural Foundation | Chicago | 2016
Edes Runner-up Prize | The Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation | 2016
University Fellow | Northwestern University | Evanston | USA | 2013-2015
Stephan Bundi Jury Award | The 5th China International Poster Biennial | 2011
Typographic Excellence | The 2nd Chicago International Poster Biennial | 2010
Runner-up Award | the 3rd Damoonfar (Faber-Castell) Visual Arts Festival | Iran| 2010
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bi-Scriptual | Germany | 2018
X/I Ten Words and One Shot | Eltville, Germany | 2015
Type Plus | Unit Editions | London | 2014
Trunk Volume II: Blood | Trunk Books | Australia | 2012
Arabesque 2 - Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia | Die Gestalten | 2011
Talk Magazine issue 17 | Iranian e-magazine of visual arts | 2011
X/I Ten Words and One Shot | Eltville, Germany | 2015
Type Plus | Unit Editions | London | 2014
Trunk Volume II: Blood | Trunk Books | Australia | 2012
Arabesque 2 - Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia | Die Gestalten | 2011
Talk Magazine issue 17 | Iranian e-magazine of visual arts | 2011