Untitled
Mixed media on cardboad
164 x 224 cm
2017
1979 | Tehran, Iran
Education:
1996-Graduation from High school in graphic design
2001-B.F.A in Painting from Iran Art University-Tehran
2007-M.F.A in Painting from T.M.U- Tehran
2012- PhD candidate, Art Practice program, Vienna Academy of Arts (Withdrawn)
Awards and residency:
2008: Golden Feather, 1st International Media Art Festival (IMAFY), Cairo, Egypt
2009: Visiting Arts artist residency in Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom
2012: Artist residency, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria
2015: Cleveland Foundation Creative Fusion Artists Program, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Membership:
- Artists pension Trust (APT)
- Association of Iranian Painters (AIP)
Solo exhibitions:
1- Requiems, Painting exhibition, Atbin gallery, Tehran 2002
2- The Post War Dream, Painting exhibition, Elahe gallery, Tehran june2005
3- H&H, heaven and hell, Digital illustrations, 13 Vanak gallery, Tehran, 2006
4- Military Attendance, Painting exhibition, Gollestan gallery, Tehran, 2006
5- Everything is just fine!, Aaran art gallery, Tehran, 2009
6- Good Stories for Good Children, Aaran art gallery, Tehran, 2011
7- Love in The time of unrest, XVA Gallery, Dubai,2011
8- Art of Impotency, Aaran art gallery, Tehran 2013
9- Heading Utopia, Zygote Press Inc, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2015
International exhibitions (selected):
1- A consumption of justice (curated by Beral Madra), Diyarbakir Art center, Turkey 2005
2- 5th Gyumri international art biennial, Armenia, Aug. 2006
3- CONCHA suitcase show, Manila, Philippines, Oct. 2006
4- Lost in no space, video show, Istanbul, Turkey, 2006
5- Artists 4 Lebanon, in the aim of Lebanese refugees, Gusto, Shargh gallery, Kuwait, Sep.2006
6- Every thing is going to be alright, Apartment Project, Istanbul-Turkey, Dec2006-Jan2007
7- Imaginary enemy, Brussels, Belgium, March 2007
8- East by East, Video and film festival, the art institute of university of Chicago, USA, April 2007
9- First contemporary art biennale of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki - Greece, May 2007
10- “Bounded by”, Basement gallery, Vienna - Austria, may-June 2007
11- Second Video Festival, Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) Cairo- Egypt, July 2007
12- Reloading images, Berlin-Tehran / Work in Progress 2007, A project by Reloading Images-Berlin, in collaboration with Parkingallery Tehran. Tehran Aug 2007, Berlin Oct 2007
13- CARAVAN, An exhibition of Iranian contemporary art, Shiraz Gallery, Venice-Italy September 2007
14-"Meeting with the Heterotopias: A selection from the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art”, February 9-March 30, 2008, Municipal Gallery of Larisa - G.I.Katsigras Museum, Larisa, Greece
15- The 1st International Media Art Forum for Youth “IMAFY”, April2008, Cairo, Egypt.
16- Heterotopias. A selection from the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art"
Belgrade cultural center, May-Aug 2008, Belgrade, Serbia
17- BREAKING NEWS, contemporary art from Middle East, Oct. 2008, F&A projects, Paris, France.
18-HAPPY DAYS, video and shorts from Middle East (49th Thessaloniki film festival), 2008, Thessaloniki, Greece.
19- Iran inside out, Chelsea Art Museum, July 2009, New York, USA.
20- The Promise of Loss, Hilger Brot galley (curaor: Shaheen Merali), October 2009, Vienna, Austria.
21- Golden Gates, Contemporary art from Middle East, Octobet 2009, Paris, France.
22- The Promise of Loss, Arario gallery, January-February 2010, New York, USA.
23- Iran inside out, Farjam foundation, Dubai, 2010
24- ARTISTERIUM 3, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, 2010
25- Postcards from Tehran, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, USA, 2010
26- My super hero, Morano Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, USA,2011
27- "Position Velocity Acceleration", XVA Gallery, Dubai,2011
28- “Reflecting Reality”, Vienna Art Week, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna 2012
29- The state of in-Between, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria 2012
30- Contemporary Iranian Art, New Albion Gallery, NSW, Australia, 2012
31-The Other Side of Visibility, Mottahedan Projects, Dubai,2014
32- Tehran; virtual-real, Aaran art gallery, Tehran 2015
33- United nonsense, Creative Fusion Artists exhibition, Cleveland , Ohio. 2016
34- Iran X Cuba Beyond the Headlines, Rogue Space Chelsea, New York, 2016
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