Shamsi Shahrokhi is an award winning graduate of Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) in Toronto, and also holds a Bachelors of Art from Tehran, Iran.

She has pioneered an award winning technique called "Heat Drawing", where she creates images and shapes on heat sensitive papers without using conventional materials, but by applying heat to their surfaces.

Her piece titled "Distinguished Women" has been selected as the cover of Ontario's Community Arts Matters! (CAM) magazine, for the 2007 spring issue.

Shamsi's works are amongst the most renowned collections around the world, including collections belonging to the National Bank of Canada, and the Mayor of Toronto, Mr. David Miller.

Other media that Shamsi paints with include water colour, oil, acrylic, pastel, multimedia, and printmaking.

Shamsi resides in Thornhill, Ontario, with her family and teaches art lessons at her studio in Thornhill and at the Varley Art Gallery in Markham, Ontario.

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Shamsi has received several awards and has exhibited in venues throughout Canada and Iran. These include: OCAD's Dorothy Hoover Award; 1st prize of 6th National Biennial Competition of Art and Paper and the Blueman Group's First Annual Vortex Art Competition; 2nd prize of Latcham Gallery's 2007 Annual Juried Exhibition; Juror's Award of Thames Art Gallery's 2005 Juried Exhibition , Art Gallery of Peel's 2007, 34th Annual Juried Show, and Varley Gallery's 2008 York Region Juried Exhibition.