Mana Baoosh is an Iranian artist living in the UK. She started her career in photography in 2014 in Iran.
Early in her career she worked full-time at a photographic studio as an editor. During this time, She also trained in advanced photography and lighting, computer graphic design and post production in different art Institutes. She now holds international certificates in photography.
Before studying art Mana’s academic background was in management; she used this knowledge to establish a visual art and design studio to support newly established businesses in the development of their brand identity.
In 2020, she immigrated to the United Kingdom, Cardiff, where she studied documentary photography at the University of South Wales. She is currently studying at the University of West England, Bristol. She has been exhibiting her work at various locations often working in collaboration with organisations such as Welsh National Opera, St. Fagans National Museum of History and Oasis Cardiff.
Her work focuses on marginalised and underrepresented communities focusing on the lived experience of people in exile.
2023: BTS photographer. ‘break-ing’ documentary drama,
university of South Wales and Wearfio.
2021: cinematographer. ‘The influence’, by Ric bower. (Influence is part of BATOTASTAS, a Nástio Mosquito recipe for TTTAW performed at the Black Box Gasteig Munich as part of Spielart by Nástio Mosquito).
2021: Camerawoman. ‘Burn it down’, Art performance of Rhiannon
Lowe, G39 gallery.
2020: Writer, photographer, actor, musician. ‘A song for the future’ in partnership with ‘Welsh national
opera’ (Online lunch January 2021).
Photography Collaborations
2023: ‘The Jollof house party opera’, Welsh national opera in partnership with Music Theatre Wales and Wearefio.
2023: Oasis one world Coire in partnership with Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
2022-2023: St Fagans national Museum of history, in partnership with the national lottery and Oasis Cardiff.
2022: ‘Catrin finch’, The Gate, in partnership with Oasis Cardiff.
2022: Gentle Radical organisation.
2022: ‘Penelope’, Wales Academy of Voice and Dramatic Arts, The gate.
2021: St Fagans national Museum of history, in partnership with Cardiff University, National Museum Wales, Arts and Humanities Research, and Oasis Cardiff.
2021: Cardiff and University Health Board, in partnership with Hannah Sabatia.
2021: St Fagans national Museum of history in partnership with Oasis Cardiff.
2021: ‘The God spelling’, University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
2021: University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Sain David halls.
2020: ‘A song for the future’ Welsh national opera, in partnership with Oasis Cardiff.
2023: ‘Doors and windows’, in collaboration with Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
2022: Librettist, ‘The shoemaker’, Welsh National Opera
2020: Librettist, ‘A song for the future’, Welsh national opera
2022: Buzz Magazine, ‘The Shoemaker’, 4 stars,” WNO’s THE SHOEMAKER mends hardship & strife in intimate WMC show”, “a truly international collaboration”
2022: Morning Star, ‘The Shoemaker’, 5 stars, “At just over 60 minutes the variety of composers and lyricists who collaborated to bring this opera together have created a compelling and memorable production”
2024: ‘Museum of Diaspora’, West Wall gallery, Urban Crofters, Cardiff, Wales.
2024: ‘Museum of Diaspora’, Oriel Y Bont, University of South Wales, Treforest Campus.
2022: ‘Diaspora in Wales’, Weston studio, Wales Millennium centre in partnership with Welsh National Opera
2025: ‘Ablution’, International Women’s Day Exhibition, The Welfare Ystradgynlais, Swansea.
2024-2025: ‘Once Upon a Time in the Middle East’, Winter Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Cardiff Made.
2024: ‘Museum of Diaspora’ as part of ‘Halftone’, University Of South Wales, held in collaboration with Carnedd Caerdydd, Shift Gallery, and Umbrella.
2022: ‘6 degrees of separation’, Trinity Centre, Sponsored by ‘Race and Equality’ and University of South Wales.
2021: ‘Voice of Change’, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Wales.
2021, 2022, 2023: ‘Dominos and dice’, CULTVR, University of South Wales.
2021, 2022, 2023: ‘Station to station’, Atrium, University of South Wales.
2023: Executive producer, Community art and music event, sponsored by Welsh National Opera and Oasis Cardiff.
2022: Executive producer assistant, Nowruz art and music event, sponsored by Welsh National Opera and Oasis Cardiff.
2023: Founder of ‘Persian Fusion’ art music group, sponsored by Chapter arts cardiff and Welsh National Opera.
2015- 2020: Manager and founder of ‘Mana visual art studio’(Branding – Photography and video making- Web designing- Computer graphic design, Teaching photography and Adobe Photoshop, mentoring artists)
MA Photography (in progress),
University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, 2024–2025
BA in Documentary Photography (First Class Honors)
University of South Wales, 2021-2024
Master of Business Management
Azad University of Science and Research, Fars, Iran, 2018
Bachelor’s Degree in Executive Management Engineering
PN University, Fars, Iran, 2014