Meet the Artist
Ghazaleh Rastgar
Ghazaleh Rastgar is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist who grew up in Shiraz, Iran and later moved to Toronto, Canada. Graduated from OCADU, she studied graphic design and advertising. Shortly after receiving her Bachelor of Design, Ghazaleh began working in a corporate environment. After seven years, she decided to dive back into her original passion, visual arts.
Her body of work explores concepts of love, sexuality, and identity and is inspired by nature, the human body, sensuality, and positivity. She has created artwork such as illustrations, animated gifs, paintings, and murals. A few clients she has worked with are TIFF, The Fast Company, and Bell Canada. The CBC Arts show featured a series of her animated GIFs on Exhibitionists.