Guity Novin

b. 1944

Guity Novin graduated from the Girl's College of Fine Arts with an honours diploma in 1965, she was admitted in the Institute of Decorative Arts in 1970 and received her BA in graphic design. She exhibited her works at Negar, and Sayhoon galleries, and participated with the artists of Salon d' automn of Paris in an international exhibition inaugurated by president Jacques Chirac, then the Prime Minister of France. She moved to the Hague, Holland in 1975, exhibited her works at Nordeinde and followed her studies at vrije acadmie voor beelende kunsten. In 1976 she relocated in Manchester, England where she continued her studies and exhibited at Didsbury. After successfully entering a U.K.-wide competition for exhibiting at London's E.C.A Exhibition at the National Theatre in South Bank she migrated to Canada in 1980. In Canada Guity Novin has exhibited at Galleries in Kingston (Brock), Ottawa (Trillium, and Artex), Montreal (Sherbrooke), and Toronto (Christopher Hughes, One of A Kind). In a series of exhibition since 1996, she has inaugurated Transpressionism, which is described by Paula Pieault-Stein as "a new movement in paintings that transcends beyond Impressionism and Expressionism styles" and which "awakens a sagacious insight bearing on the inner world of appearances" [The Globe and Mail, 11 Feb. 1996]. Since 1997, as part of a two year exhibiting tour of the west coast, she has moved to Vancouver, and is now exhibiting her Transpressionist works at Guthenham Gallery in Granville island. Guity Novin works are in private and public collections in England, Germany, France, Netherlands, Canada, USA, Iran, Israel, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand.