Helia Darabi
PHD of Art Research from Art University of Tehran

Helia Darabi is an independent art critic and researcher. She started her press activity in 1993 and wrote about contemporary art in Iran since 2001, and since 2007 she has been teaching art history and art criticism at Art University, Azad University and Soureh University in the fields of sculpture. He has studied painting, photography, research and philosophy of art.
Membership in the Contemporary Art History Committee, Art History Department, Art Research Institute, Art Academy; Secretary of the 7th Tehran Biennial Sculpture Conference, member of the Tehran Biennale Research Committee, Iranian Painters Association; Collaboration in the compilation of the encyclopedia of art, contemporary culture, collaboration in the translation of art history reference books (Art in the Passage of Time, written by Helen Gardner and Art of Modernism by Sandro Bukola, under the supervision of Ruyin Pakbaz) are some of her records.
Until now, Helia Darabi has worked in centers such as University of Tehran, University of Arts, Sourah University of Tehran, University of Kurdistan, University of Zanjan, College of Asian-African Studies, University of London (2013), University of Bonn, Germany (2012); and Academy of Fine Arts of Trondheim University, Norway (2009), has lectured on art criticism and contemporary Iranian art.