Bio
Minoo holds a bachelor’s degree from the National University of Iran and a Master’s in urban planning and design from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She taught at several universities for fifteen years but transitioned into the art world to follow her true dream. In 2015, she studied studio art at Sacramento City College and the continuing education program in fine arts at Les Beaux Arts in Paris.
Currently, she lives in Sacramento, showing her artworks through Sac Open Studios and other group and solo exhibitions that help emerging artists. Her work is contemporary in style utilizing a mix of figurative and expressionist techniques exhibited in various media, including painting, mixed media collage, printmaking, and calligraphy.
She is inspired by the daily events that are thought-provoking and innovative and expressions and ideologies of the culture and politics of the United States and the Middle East. She has shown her artwork in the Sacramento Crocker Art Museum, Blue Line Arts, Gregory Kondos Gallery, and the American River College.
