Majid Karimi is a Tehran born architect artist. He's established his personal studio (2000), Karmana workshop (2004) and gallery (Camadesign 2011). He works as an environmental and interior architect, project manager and also a visual art designer.
He has had long interest in globalization and local identities changes. Moreover, he's noticed to short time trends and eternal movements through life styles around the globe.
Using different mediums, especially multimedia techniques and installation, he followed art experiment as an illustrator, photographer and designer.
Majid karimi has participated solo/group exhibition and events in his hometown region and Europe, such as Image of the year, (Iranian Artists House 2007-2010) Tehran Graphic Biennale (Iranian Contemporary Museum of Art and Niavaran Cultural Center (2002- 2003) Exinterior_Inexterior (a solo exhibition and performance in Oxford Brookes university. Oxford 2008) Human Habitation Photography and Painting exhibition, as a member of Jury (Westminster University, London 2010)
Majid had been invited to organize a workshop for MA. Students in the school of Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, based on the Exinterior collection. Recently he was appointed as a nominee for Prix Pictet 2011 prize on the theme of Growth.
Also he had a cooperation with International Art and Architecture Research Association, a partner of UN_Habitat organization, as an advisor and a project manager. After the 2010 Iranian evidences he focused on Camadesign brand to design & produce a variety of interior architecture and furniture samples. After attending the MEDEX-2011 exhibition he was invited to join the think tank of the beautification organization of Tehran Municipality.
He stresses the contrasts in approach to development, industrialism, modernism, and communication eras. He uses photo researches on the solutions which are considered to enrich the human life, and gaining his ambition. He has focused on the effect of technology, traditions, authorities, and economic phenomena's on the earth and its citizens life spaces. His latest collection (Lion Hunting) inspired by Assyrian stone crafts and satellite images is considering how the human makes his honors on the ruins of the captured environment during history. The other visual projects which he is working on is (Vanak-Oxford), a virtual comparison between a small village where is located in the Heart of new Tehran and academic face of Oxford.