Born in Tehran‑Iran
Based in Toronto, Canada

Education:

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2026 What touches the Scalp Is close to the Bone, Hunna Art Gallery with Hayaty Diaries, Paris, France
2026 Inventory of Belonging, Zaal Gallery with Aabee Bleue project, Los Angles, USA
2025 Bitten by the Bug, Heart Museum, Herning, Denmark
2025 Someone Is In My House, Galerie Laetitia Gorsy, Leipzig, Germany
2024 Neither Here ~ Nor Elsewhere, Thirdline Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2024 An Average Comet, Harkawik Gallery, New York, USA
2024 Martini, Galerie Laetitia Gorsy, Leipzig, Germany
2024 Soft Edge of a Blade II, Zaal Gallery x Dastan Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2023 Soft Edge of a Blade I , Zaal Gallery x Dastan Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2022 Crossing, V.O Curations Angel, London, UK
2021 Shape of an Image, Curated by Sasha Bogojev, Waow Gallery, Hong Kong
2021 Discover Towards Utopia, online exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2020 Limbo, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2020 GIFC, Online Exhibition, Oslo, Norway
2020 Anything-whatever, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2020 Portrait: Identity and expression, Site Brooklyn Gallery, New York, USA
2019 All-Iranian Women, Tache Art Gallery of University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
2017 Opening Exhibition, Drawing Museum ,Tehran ,Iran
2017 Episode 02 ,Mohsen Gallery ,Tehran ,Iran
2017 Pure Drawing, Spazio Nour Gallery, Milan, Italy
2017 Food, Contemporary art museum of Isfahan, Isfahan,Iran
2016 Identity, Jorjani Gallery, Tehran,Iran
2016 Tehran Experimental Art Week, Niyavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran
2016 Art in Secret ,Showcase Gallery, Dubai, the U.A.E
2015 Peace, Lajevardi Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 New Generation, Shirin Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 Action, Expression, Creativity, Mahe Mehr Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 Art walk , Saadabad Museum, Tehran, Iran

Art Fairs:

2025 The Armory Show, Dastan Gallery, New York, USA
2024 Art Toronto, Zaal Gallery x Dastan Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2024 Contemporary Art Now, Shebam Gallery, Ibiza, Spain2024 Foundation Online Fair, Artsy x Filo Sofi
2023 Art Toronto, Zaal Gallery x Dastan Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2023 Spring Break, Filo Sofi, New York, USA
2022 Art Toronto, The Next Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2021 Art Toronto, Mayten’s project, Toronto, Canada
2021 The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA
2020 MayFair Art Weekend Showreel, London, UK

Awards and Grants:

2024 RBC Emerging Artist Network at The Power Plant
2022 Winner of Animated Short: Limbo 2, Toronto Independent Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2022 Honorable Mention Animation Limbo 2, Supernova 7th Dimension Digital Animation Festival, Denver, Colorado
2022 Selected as of the ‘‘5 Rising Painters to Discover in 2022’’ by Artsy campaign and been digitally displayed in NYC subway stations and train cars for a whole month of February, New York, USA
2022 Innovative grant, New York, USA
2021 Lambda Scholarship Foundation Canada - Les McAfee Memorial Award, Manitoba, Canada
2020 Manitoba scholarship, Manitoba, Canada
2019 MGS award, Manitoba, Canada

Residencies:

2026 SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico
2026 La Chambre Blanche, Quebec, Canada
2024- 2025 Wolf Hill, New York, USA

Screenings:

2026 If It Moves, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2022 Limbo 2, Toronto Independent Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2022 Limbo, Queer City Cinema Film Festival, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2022 Limbo 2, Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Supernova 7th Dimension, Denver, Colorado
2019 Limbo, Motion Sickness Gallery, Cambridge, England

Auctions:

2025 Arts Effect Auction, Toronto, Canada
2025 Art Gem, Toronto, Canada
2023 Art Attack Buddies art auction, curated by Noor Alé, Toronto, Canada

Selected press:

2026 Canvas, Skin Deep: Group Show with Hunna Art and Hayaty Diaries in Paris, Written by Sarah Moroz
2026 Untitled db, 18 Questions With... Mahsa Merci, New York, USA
2026 Canvas Rebel, Meet Mahsa Merci, California, USA
2025 pencer magazine, Mahsa Merci Finds Safety in Fragmentation, written by Divine Angubua, Toronto, Canada
2025 Elephant, What Explains Our Impulse to Document Our Injuries?, written by Upasana Das
2025 OMG BLOG, Artsit interview by Odessa Paloma Parker, Toronto, Canada
2025 Darz Art, Neither Here ~ Nor Elsewhere, written by Delaram Rajabi, Tehran, Iran
2024 The National, Weekly UAE museum and gallery guide: Bold colours, beach junk and stirring solo exhibitions, written by Mann Jalal
2024 Canvas, Neither Here ~ Nor Elsewhere
2024 Artdaily, Neither Here ~ Nor Elsewhere
2023 Tomorrow’s Talent book, vol III, Booooooom, Vancouver, Canada
2022 It’s nice that, Mahsa Merci’s textured paintings reference the multi-dimensional nature of queer identity by Olivia Hingley, London, UK
2022 Oxford American, Coming up Fancy, by Jewly Hight, Issue 118, Fall 2022, Arkansas, USA
2022 Arts Helps, The Revolution of Queerness and Gender in Iran in Mahsa Merci’s Portraits by Rasha Hamade, New York, USA
2022 She Does the city, On Silent Stars by Jenn Mcneely, Toronto, Canada
2022 Art connect, Artist interview by Emma Enderby
2022 Toronto Life Magazine and website, Culture
2022 Yomoho, online magazine, On Silent Stars by Phil Villeneuve, Toronto, Canada
2022 Juxtapose online magazine, Silent Stars: Mahsa Merci by Sasha Bogojev, California, USA
2021 Kunst Magazine, Number 4, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 Purple Magazine, Vol 6, Genderless issue, Berlin, Germany
2021 Artmaze Magazine, Anniversary edition, Issue 20, London, UK
2021 Reconstructed Magazine, Bodies Issue, Vol 2, Massachusetts, USA
2020 Art Viewer, Review ‘’Limbo Act II ‘’ at Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2020 Creative Boom, Review ‘’Artists in ‘limbo’ share their feelings of frustration and hope in new works’, by Katy Cowan, London, UK
2020 Corona Care+, Field Projects, New York, USA
2020 Create! Magazine, Vol. 19, Philadelphia, USA
2019 ABC News, Interview and documentary, Australia
2019 Pey-vast, Artist Interview, online visual arts platform, Tehran, Iran
2019 Art Habens, Artist Interview, online contemporary magazine, Biennale edition, London, England
2019 Hymen Magazine,Ignorance Issue, Oslo, Norway
2018 Four years Four Projects by Bita Fayyazi book, Art review, Tehran, Iran
2017 Zard Magazine, Art review on Episode 02 Group Exhibition, Vol. 3, Tehran, Iran
2015 Culture of Peace book, Tehran, Iran
2014 Tehran Art book, Tehran, Iran

Publications:

2025 Wet Light in Midnight, monograph, Wolf Hill Arts, New York, USA
Texts by Jonathan Travis, Ethan Rafii, Sasa Bogojev, Noor Alé; design by Sam Kashmiri

Artist Talks and Panels:

2026 color and culture, Portland State University, Oregon, USA (forthcoming)
2025 Artist Talk, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
2023 Artist Talk in Daniels U of T, Toronto, Canada
2020-2021 Platform Gallery, Board member, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2021 Panelist “Pride”, Moderators: Nicole Garton and Tara Turk Haynes, The Other Art Fair, Los Angles, USA

Teaching:

2021 Teaching assistant of painting, Univerity of Manitoba, Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
2020 Teaching assistant of contemporary art, Univerity of Manitoba, Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
2020 Teaching assistant of painting, Univerity of Manitoba, Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Collections:

Private collections ( Canada, USA, Denmark, Italy, Hong kong, Iran, UAE)