Sima is an industrial designer, artist, and researcher passionate about jewelry and wearable objects. Her approach blends traditional fine jewelry craftsmanship with modern technology and digital fabrication techniques. She uses jewelry as a medium to reflect on and explore human challenges in a creative and thought-provoking way. She holds an MFA in Design from the University of California, Davis, and a BFA in Industrial Design, from Tehran
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Design / 2019 – 2021 University of California, Davis, United States
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Industrial Design / 2005 – 2010, Tehran, Iran
Academic Experiences
Lecturer | Department of Art, University of Maryland, College Park, MD | Aug 2023- Present
Lecturer | Department of Design, University of California, Davis, CA | Jan 2022- Jun 2023
Teaching Assistant | Department of Design, University of California, Davis, CA | Sep 2020 – Jun 2022
Digital Fabrication Lab Trainer | Department of Design, University of California, Davis, CA | Sep 2021- December 2021
Makerspace Teaching Assistant | Department of Design, University of California, Davis, CA | Sep 2021- Jun 2022
Awards and Honors
Served as a jury member for the Savageau Award, evaluating the best Art and Design theses at UC Davis | 2022, 2023
Aesthetic Award of ISWC Design Exhibition | 2021
UC Davis dean’s graduate fellowship, UC Davis, USA | 2021
Provost’s First Year Graduate Fellowship, UC Davis, USA | 2019
3rd Prize Winner, COW Design Festival, Dnipro, Ukraine | 2019
1st Prize Winner, National Jewelry Design Week, Tehran, Iran | 2018
2nd Prize Winner, COW Design Festival, Dnipro, Ukraine | 2017
3rd Prize Winner, Roshd National Photo Festival, Tehran, Iran | 2015
Iranian National Universities Art Entrance Competition, Ranked 23rd among 60,000+ participants | 2004
Exhibition
Speculative Tools for a Warming Planet:
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain | 2022
Ars Electronica Festival, Austria | 2022
Dutch Design Week, Netherlands | 2022
“What If …”, Group exhibition, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, California | 2021
National Jewelry Design, Tehran University gallery of art, Tehran, Iran | 2018
COW Design Festival Exhibition, Dnipro, Ukraine | 2017 & 2019
Painting Exhibition, Baneh, Iran | 2000
Publication
“CJ-2050: Body Cooling Wearable Technology” at International Symposium on Wearable Computers | 2021
“BioSparks: Jewelry as Electrochemical Sweat Biosensors with Modular, Repurposing and Interchangeable Approaches” at International Symposium on Wearable Computers | 2023