Darya Fard is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines universal connection by creating metaphorical, symmetrical, and symbolic mythical creatures inspired by Persian poetry, mythology, and psychological studies. Darya received her MFA degree in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking from GSU in 2022 and her MA and BA degrees in Iran, Tehran. Her primary aesthetic concern is in intersecting visual art, including printmaking, photography, video, installation, sound, and dance, with Persian literature, mythology, and psychology. She has recently begun incorporating scientistic studies and natural phenomena relative to her work.

She taught multidisciplinary classes in Iran and continued her career as a university-level teaching assistant and Graduate Instructor. After graduation, she continued teaching at the GSU School of Art and Design as an Adjunct Instructor and recently she got visiting Lecturer position at GSU. She has been professionally active in the art world since 2008, participating in solo shows, invitational exhibitions, and juried and group exhibitions across Iran and different states in the US, Italy, Turkey, Norway, Canada, and Belarus.

She was the featured artist in Atiba9 magazine, an international publication in Spain and Algeria, and Voyage magazine, a national publication in the United States. She is the recipient of more than three awards for artistic excellence and recipient of Midtown Alliance’s 2023-2024 heart of the art Residency.

In her studio practice and recent installations, she used various printmaking techniques like lithography, intaglio, silkscreen, woodcut/linocut, mono-print, and alternative photographic processes, translating them in ways that invite viewer participation and allow them to be integrated into other mediums like video, sound, dance, and shadow to create an atmospheric space.