Karan Reshad
Creative Miscommunication
کارن رشاد
Karan Reshad
About
Like Most people I understand the reality as it is, but unlike many, I believe human's relation with reality should not be in the form of acceptance but criticism. Creativity begins with questioning something which Already exists and reshaping it into something which has not existed yet.
Visual Art
I have been always hyperactively busy with visual creativity. Apart from the field of design, I have always been fascinated with painting as well as making things (physical or digital). In my early youth I tried painting on Walls without being directly exposed to western Streetart trends. Later on, graffiti and subcultural aesthetics had a tremendous impact on my Visual progress. I have dedicated nearly two decades of my life to creating my Khoshneffitis and Urban Primitives; The former has been a source of influence to many in the middle eastern Graffiti scene and the latter led me to my recent comics.
Design
Design as a Job and as a means of interaction with the Environment is what I could hardly imagine being away from any time in last couple of decades. I started my profession at the age of nineteen, designing logos, Magazine covers, billboards, etc. parallelly I grew an interest in independent media and social communication through Art directing and strategic design.
Research
My life events and personal readings ushered me through a Self-educative path away from the academic atmosphere. In fact, I consider the academic environment neither constructive nor worth meriting . I got deterred from continuation of academic studies and I consider my dismissal paper the most credible paper I could ever receive from an official institution. My private studies and research have been mostly around Mythology, Aesthetics, Sociology/Subcultural studies and Alternative approaches/theories of Creative resistance and problem solving
Publication
Books,Zines and Media are dear to me. I have been making zines since 1995, or even earlier. Lately in 2017 I started a serrie Called "Swimming Outside the Stream".So most of my free time is dedicated to gathering materials to get published in S.O.S . I have done a dozen of Artist books, Indie comic pamphlets and some original limited edition hand printed collections.
Media Projects
Taking its title from my Teenage bedroom decorated with a dozen of different hats and caps, KolahStudio started its web apearance in 2003 trying to be a project researching and promoting underground art in Iran.
As a side-project ,IG came to help document and promote graffiti and streeet art in Iran. the website(former weblog) had an undeneiable central role in promoting and showcasing the first decade of Iranian graffiti movement.
As a 48 Pages zine, Swimming outside the Stream tries to document my notes about life in Exile. As an organ far from its body, one must find a way to continue before it is too late. S.O.S contains text, Graphic, Painting, photography and all other printable stuff.
Resume
2019
Tanha ComicsIndie Comics & Game
Concentration on story-telling and narrative communication.
2012
Prison and ExileLiving abroad
Reestablishing life in another location however,the same planet.
2005
Art MarketGallery Shows
First Solo show in Seyhoun Art gallery (Masoumeh Seyhoun) / Several Solo and group exhibitions in Iran, Australia, Germany, France, USA, etc.
2004
KolahStudioAvant Garde media
The establishment of Kolahstudio as an underground Art portal project.
2003
Public ArtStreet Art
The initiation of a long term Project to communicate with the urban environment through painting on walls.
1998
Labor MarketCover Designer
The start of my official full- time job as a Cover,Advertisement, Billboard designer in Mainstream Iranian Magazines and Marketing Companies.
Personal Projects
K.I.B
A1one
TanhaComics
Tanha Games
Media Projects
Kolahstudio
Irangraffiti
BrainStorm Mag
Deevaar Movie
S.O.S Zine
Activities
- Painting
- Logo Design
- Tattoo Design
- Writing
- Story Telling
- Video Editing
- Experimental Music
- Communication
- Trouble-making
- Problem-Solving
- Web Design
Social Media
Me! on Social Media
I am also available in several social media platforms, interacting with friends, audience and people inside and ourside my circle.
Please be aware, I am not active anymore in some of the listed platforms like Facebook, Vimeo and Flickr, But you might like to check them out to see some older materials.