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Siavash Sedigh (Born AUG-1986 in Tehran,Iran) is a contemporary Art Photographer and Visual Artist. His main considered work is on art photography and also photomontage art. In between he is well known as a collaborative artist who worked in a combination of various branches and styles of arts. One of the most important and well known example is an exhibition of Photography-Painting with another painter, Heliya Refaei, in NişArt Gallery, Istanbul-Turkey(2017). Through his work, he critically comments on the daily base of people's life. He mostly focuses and explores the topics of censorship, modernity with relation of nudity. Personal Life After graduating high school, Siavash Sedigh studied Graphic Design, attending University in Tehran, then continued in Art and Photography in Copenhagen university in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009. Then He came back to Tehran, Iran and continued his career. In 2019 he moved to Istanbul, Turkey.

Siavash Sedigh has produced 8 series of artworks in photography and other related combinations to date. titled From 2011 to 2017, Meet the Routines, Body Community, Mental Release, Body And The Adventure, PhotoMontage Series, Horsing Around Istanbul and One Day, Her Room. The first series, From 2011 to 2017 (from 2011 to 2017), is the collection of art photography with live installation during process. There is no digital work interfered in. There are various topics and ideas about during those years with the focus on surrealistic happenings with daily life. All the photographers were taken in Iran. The second series, Meet the Routines (2017) was a Photography-Painting collaboration with another artist (Heliya Refaei). This was the first experience as a serious team work that was a great success which exhibited in NişArt Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey. During the exhibition the Turkish Media attended to the gallery and made it world wide by the time. The third series, Body Community (2017) was the second Photography-Painting collaboration with same artist (Heliya Refaei). As the second experience of collaboration in Photography-Painting, Siavash Sedigh and her colleague explored something new out of the extreme close up of body parts. The work also was a important experience which concludes in Saatchiart Company, one of the most famous art galleries and medias in the world. The fourth series, Mental Release (2018) was the third Photography-Painting collaboration with (Heliya Refaei). The idea of making a project was a disfigured portraits of people and then showing the fantasy mind of the participants with painting. The project is now on the collection of the Siavash Sedigh studio. The fifth series, Body And The Adventure (2017 and 2018) was the last Photography-Painting collaboration experience with (Heliya Refaei). The project was mostly about a body as it self which could have bunch of stories to tell as the adventures. The project is now in a private collection of Sivash Sedigh. The sixth series, PhotoMontage Series (from 2018 to present) is the Photography with the combination of Digital Montage which is one the most important work of Siavash Sedigh as a solo artist. During the work he captures photograph from the reality and surrounding, the mixing them with his own fantasy by looking of different categories as like censorship, tradition, modernism, nudity, routines and so on. In 2019 he was attending Saatchiart annual Action in Sydney, Australia with 4 of his works and won the participating prize. The Seventh series, Horsing Around Istanbul (2019) was also a Photo-Montage experience which was a mixture of street urban photography of famous streets and places of Istanbul, Turkey and picturing it with a symbol of horse. The project is now under the collection of Siavash Sedigh studio. The eighth series, One Day, Her Room (2019) is the Photography project which is still running in Black and White photography style. The project is about immigrants who leaves far from their home country. The story is about one day of them at their own rooms and what they are usually do when they are home, alone with themselves. Group Exhibitions Siavash Sedigh first group exhibition was in Helsingør, Denmark. The exhibition was at IPC (International people's college) which was International gathering Photo exhibition, with more than 20 different nationality of participants, in 2007. In 2013 Siavash Sedigh attended his second group exhibition with 6 photographs by the title of Anan" . Most notably, His third group exhibition in 2017 was Meet the Routines'', Photography-Painting collaboration with co artist (Heliya Refaei). The exhibition was a important one and got the attention of Turkey media and press on the time. After exhibition, during years, the collection was shown to various medias and got some notable critics among web pages. Solo Exhibition

Siavash Sedigh’s very first solo exhibition was at the Campus of University of Art in Tehran, Iran. It was a street photography solo show in 2001 which he exhibited one more time in there some years after again.
 * 2005- Campus of University of Art, Tehran, Iran;
 * 2007- Exhibition at IPC, Helsingør, Denmark;
 * 2007- Solo Street Show Gallery, Berlin, Germany;
 * 2008- Københavns Tekniske Skole, Copenhagen, Denmark;
 * 2010- Home Studio Gallery; First Foundation, Tehran, Iran;
 * 2014- Pardis gallery, Pardis Mellat art Gallery of Tehran, Tehran, Iran;
 * 2016- Home Studio Gallery; Second Foundation, Tehran, Iran;

Publication As entering to branch of University of Tehran, he made and designed a Professional Photography course and syllabus under official license of Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in Tehran, Iran. The course was designed to use in both Persian and English languages. External links https://www.instagram.com/siavash.sedigh/ https://www.facebook.com/siavash.sedigh https://www.saatchiart.com/siavash.sedigh http://www.nisantasihaber.com/haber/iranli-sanatcilardan-meet-the-routines/ https://www.picuki.com/profile/siavash.sedigh

References[edit] [1] The official page of Siavash Sedigh Instagram; [2] The official personal page of Siavash Sedigh on saatchiart [3] Official Nisantasihaber Istanbul news and media 1. ^ "© Siavash Sedigh (@siavash.sedigh) • Instagram photos and videos". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03. 2. ^ "Siavash Sedigh". Saatchi Art. Retrieved 2020-03-03. 3. ^ "İranlı sanatçılardan "Meet The Routines"". Nişantaşıhaber.com (in Turkish). 2017-11-04. Retrieved 2020-03-03.