Marjan Seyedin, a Franco-Iranian artist born in 1979, has been practicing engraving and drawing for over twenty years. Her prints, primarily monochrome animal portraits, have earned her multiple awards in France.

After obtaining a Master’s degree in Graphic Arts at Azad University in Tehran, Marjan Seyedin moved to France in 2003. She graduated from the École des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg and earned a Doctorate in Fine Arts in 2017 at Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg.

She has participated in three artist residencies: at the Dufraine Foundation (Vexin, France) with a grant from the Academy of Fine Arts, in China at the Guanlan Printmaking Base, and in Spain at the Casa de Velázquez (French Academy in Madrid) from 2015 to 2016.

Marjan's work has been recognized with the Grav’x 2007 award in Paris, as well as the Pierre Cardin Prize from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in France, Iran, and the United States. After presenting a solo exhibition in 2017 at the Shirin Gallery in Tehran, Marjan Seyedin’s works were showcased in 2018 in her first solo exhibition in France at Galerie Documents 15, where she will hold her second solo exhibition in September 2025.

Marjan reinterprets traditional engraving techniques—primarily etching, aquatint, and drypoint—through a contemporary and poetic lens. In her works, animals play an essential role, serving as allegorical and symbolic representations, reflecting human nature through their depiction. Marjan draws her inspiration from the animal world—a realm of dark, silent creatures, moving in compact groups or wandering alone, with closed or wide-open eyes—allowing her to express a certain vision of humanity and human nature.

Following this path, she has begun a new series in which she intertwines various literary and visual references. By linking them to autobiographical elements, she creates a theatrical pictorial narrative. This is a theater where the actors—sometimes humanized animals with masked faces—draw the viewer into the depths of human existence, confronting them with the ambiguity of the human soul. It is a “human comedy” where realism merges with allegory and symbolism to explore the universal themes of humanity: inner conflicts and the dualities that define human beings—reason and madness, good and evil, knowledge and ignorance, light and darkness.