Mokhtar Paki

Mokhtar lives in the Bay Area and works as a visual artist and an art teacher.   Hi murals notably Sinbad Voyage in central Berkeley is one of his latest epic works. Mokhtar creates and shows his his works at his studio Firehouse Art Collective regularly.  His Daily Sketches, reflecting social, cultural and political environment has been posted uninterrupted at the social medias since November 9, 2016.  Some of the places he has exhibited his works are:
Strut Gallery , San Francisco, 2020 and 2024
Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, 2019
La Casa del Tunel: Art Center, Tijuana BC, México,  2013
Persian Center, Berkeley, 2013
Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, 2010,
Intersection For The Arts, San Francisco, 2007
Oliver Gallery, Oakland, 2007.

Mokhtar also writes.  His two novels “Icon of Mana” and “Scheherazade of Silence” as well as his essays and short stories have been published in Sweden and Iran since 1985.
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