Artist Profile | Cartoon & Caricature

Ayat Naderi

He has a master's degree in Visual Communication and extensive experience in illustration and graphics. In addition, he is an animation director, cartoon teacher in Isfahan, animation teacher at Isfahan Fine Arts Conservatory, founder of “Cartoon Center Step One” and founder of “Tash White Free Art Academy” with the permission of the Department of Guidance and Islamic culture of Isfahan. He worked two years for “Isfahan Cartoon Association”. He has organized four individual exhibitions and four collective exhibitions in the field of graphics and caricature. He also wrote and designed four animated books. Awards and honours • First place in the First Tehran National Productivity Festival • Second and fourth place in the National Festival of Tabriz and Ardakan Students - Yazd • First place in the Isfahan Provincial Clean Air Festival • First place in the Isfahan Red Crescent Festival • Honorable Mention at the Tehran Broadcasting Festival • Recognition at the International Festival "Red Man" - China - 2011 • First place in the National Festival of Mashhad • Finalist in the 7th International Film and Animation Festival • Recognition at the Bojnourd "Soft Warfare" Festival • Third place in the “Sweet Life” Festival - Mashhad • Recognition at the North Khorasan Population Festival • Finalist in two national and local press festivals • Second place in the North Khurasan National Festival - Future Iran • Fifth place in the International Cartoon Festival of Greece • First place in the 4th “Cartoon Waqf” Festival • Special Award from the Hamedan Peace and Friendship Festival • Special Prize of the International Festival of Quetta - Italy • Publication of works in two prestigious national and foreign catalogs. • Exhibition of works for students in Tehran, Isfahan and Yazd. • Participation in five cartoon conferences in "Ghadir Garden" of Isfahan (How to become a cartoonist). • Winner of the Provincial Citizenship Festival – “Culture and citizenship, countryside and electricity” (for four consecutive years). • Director of the cartoon section of the Isfahan Art Festival “Turquoise Dome” • Participation in a variety of festivals with themes of electricity, cultural citizenship, Isfahan area base, cartoons and “Turquoise Domes”. • Finalist in the selection of cartoons and comics at the Isfahan Press Festival • Production and direction of two animated shorts and filming of short films from Isfahan "Young Cinema Association" • Director of the committee of short animations of citizenship for the culture of health • Director of the animated series Las aventuras de Artina • Animation director of “Machine Mashhad” (in production) • Carrying out three figure drawing workshops • Realization of cartoons and creative photography in the province of Isfahan • Workshop on graphic and cartoon theory and practice at Ardakan “University of Art”, Mashhad and Yazd • Establishment of two specialized photography camps in the province of Isfahan • Celebration of the photography contest of "My childhood" in Isfahan