Unlike all other bareskinned images and paintings in magazines circulating in Iran, the nude body of Venus was not covered over by censoring black ink.

[2] While still in the university, Shojaian painted two nude works titled Salad season 1 and 2, where he alludes to self-inflicted genital mutilation as a symbol of not accepting his sexual identity under the oppressive Iranian regime.

[13] In 2017, after traveling to Lebanon, Shojaian collaborated with Lebanese queer bellydancer and artist Khansa in a series of sensual and controversial nude portraits exhibited in Beirut under the title of Sweet Blasphemy.

[11][14][15] One of Shojaian's better known pieces depicts the band Mashrou' Leila's frontman Hamed Sinno pinching the nipple of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of funerary rites.

[11][17][18] In a 2020 interview, Shojaian paid tribute to Sarah Hegazi, an LGBT activist and one of the concert attendees who raised the pride flag.

[11] A 1974 Paykan car once owned by politician Nicolae Ceaușescu, was acquired by the organization PaykanArtCar LLC; which in 2021 was painted and features a sound installation by Shojaian.

[9] The sound art installation includes a track from Monfared reading a note to his boyfriend, who had fled to Turkey days prior to his murder.