Banafsheh
Erfanian is a Toronto based, illustrator, painter, and arts educator. She holds
a Master’s in Illustration. Banafsheh has illustrated many books and magazines
and her work has been featured in numerous exhibits in Iran, Italy, US, Canada,
Russia, China, Japan, and Serbia. She has won awards such as the RBC Arts
Access Awards, 2019 and 2017, The RBC Space Award, 2019, The Award of
Excellence of Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition, China, 2016, the
1st Prize of The Second Festival of Textbook Illustration, Iran, 2006, the
Encouragement Prize of The 15th Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustration,
Japan, 2004.
