She was born in Kermanshah, Iran, September 17, 1979. At the age of five, her family was forced to flee the Iran Iraq war. At the age of 12 years old, her family sold everything including her poodle to move back home. Unfortunately, the universe has something else in store for her. One month after moving back to Iran, Desert Storm took place less than 6 hours from where she resides. Every day for 6 months her dad would visit the Embassy for approval to come back to the States. When they finally got approved, her and her family were on a plane back the Baton Rouge within 3 days. She began her studies at the age of 16 at Louisiana State University and graduated in Fine Arts with a concentration in painting and drawing.

 

Neda Parandian is a Persian American artist whose creativity knew no end. Her work knew no bounds and her artwork is ahead of her time. She blurs the line between surreal and subconscious art. During her college years at Louisiana State University studying Studio Art, her nude drawing professor made a comment that left a lasting impact. He said, "You seem to be having some trouble with your spatial perception. Rather than look three dimensional, your perspective of the nude model looks flat. Here is what you do, use your unique view and push the flatness in everything you touch." She leaves hints of Persian art culture with her gold leafing, metallic, and iridescent touches. One night while experimenting with gesso and a stick, she fell asleep. Her eyes opened to something she has never seen before. The marks from moving the gesso around had hardened overnight resembled a unique three-dimensional, primitive like the texture on the canvas. During her senior year alongside classmates such as the well-known graffiti artist Mark fresh and New Orleans live painter Alex Harvey, she wanted to leave a lasting impression among such talented peers. She had begun to take interest in microscopic images of cells. The beauty under the microscope cells like HIV or alcohol-exposed a magnificent organic flow of color, shape, and color. and varying shapes of circles. She had a particular motto of creating order out of chaos. Her final and first painting distinguishing her style was a four foot by four-foot painting of the cell of a basswood tree. Using nothing more than a ketchup bottle she created a mixture of gesso and other mediums and dropped 800 meticulous dots in a very mathematical order. Some dots were thick and curvey, others flat. The only other step she took was laying down color beneath the dots. She couldn't make any mistakes because she laid down the color first with acrylic color. During her final senior critique, her classmates took notice of how meticulous and marvelous the painting came out. This became known as Neda Parandian' signature look.

 

Using experimentation, she pushes beyond her different view of the world and uses an algorithm for nature in her fine artwork to create a sculpture on canvas. She has faced many adversities and keeps moving forward. "My art is simple and complex, yet I simply use my own personal pain and suffering to create beauty for the world to see. In the art world, “I don't do art, art does me. I don't always control what I create, as the process stems from deep inside. My subconscious is wide open and I process the world using my senses. The process of creating something out of nothing is like giving birth, I shed parts of me that are ready to be released. Life is art, and Art is apart of me.