Curriculum Vitae
Born and based in Tehran, Iran
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 San Andreas, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010 Ghoori, No.6 Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2007 The Moments of Silence, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & COLLABORATIVE PUBLIC PROJECTS
2011 Iran Via Video Current, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA
2011 Iranian Pulse, Museu Nacional (National Museum), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011 AKSBazi.com, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2011 mailto:, Drift Station, Nebraska, USA
2011 Soft City, ALANistanbul - Manzara Perspectives, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 Trade Routes, Pi Artworks, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 Television, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010 Kitchen, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010 Nomadic Streaming at Art Basel, Aether9, www.1904.cc
2010 Wales Think Tank, Eyebeam, New York, USA
2010 Conflict Kitchen, Pittsburgh, USA
2010 Tassvir-e Sal "Image of the Year", Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, Iran
2009 The Other, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2009 Wales Think Tank, Ffotogallery, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales
2009 Urban Jealousy, Magacine, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
2009 Mini Mini Art Show, Cartel Lab, Arizona, USA
2009 Urban Jealousy, Gallerie Wallywoods, Berlin, Germany
2008 Who am I?, Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2008 Tassvir-e Sal "Image of the Year", Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, Iran
2008 Diptyches, Mehrva Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2008 Street or Studio, Duveen Galleries, Tate Britain, London, UK
2008 Negin-e Sabz, Ivan Sepid Gallery, Karaj, Iran
2008 Good 50x70, Sant’Oronzo, Lecce, Italy
2008 Good 50x70, Festival della Creatività, Florence, Italy
2008 Good 50x70, Istanbul Design Week, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 Good 50x70, Piazzetta dell’Anfiteatro Romano, Aosta, Italy
2008 Good 50x70, U.Design - Museo del Acero, Monterrey, Mexico
2008 Good 50x70, Parco Letterario Orcynus Orca, Messina, Italy
2008 Good 50x70, Piazza Palazzo di Città, Turin, Italy
2008 Good 50x70, Centro Commerciale Roma Est, Rome, Italy
2008 Good 50x70, Arena del Museo Camberotti, Latina, Italy
2008 Street or Studio, Tate Modern, London, UK
2008 Iran, the Eternal Sonnet, Nikol Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2008 Good 50x70, La Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy
2008 A Practical Demonstration, Machine Project, Los Angeles, USA
2008 Urban Jealousy, Hafriyat Karakoy, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 The Mass, Ivan Sepid Gallery, Karaj, Iran
2008 The Mass, Vahdat Gallery, Mahabad, Iran
2008 Persia Photo Expo, Esteghlal Int. Hotel, Tehran, Iran
2007 The Mass, Momayez Gallery, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, Iran
2007 The Mass, Mirak Gallery, Mashhad, Iran
2007 Tassvir-e Sal "Image of the Year", Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, Iran
2007 The Mass, Fakhreddin A’sad-e Gorgani Hall, Gorgan, Iran
SCREENINGS
2011 Forman's Smokehouse Gallery, London, UK
2011 Gallery West, Toronto, Canada
2011 Ateliê Trêsnovesete, São Paulo, Brazil
2011 MAMbA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009 Bananapark Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2009 Valby Kulturhus, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 Sguardi Sonori Festival, Rome, Italy
2009 Optica Festival Paris, Cité Universitaire Internationale, Paris, France
2009 Optica Festival Córdoba, Filmoteca de Andalucia, Córdoba, Spain
2009 FEST I NOVA International Contemporary Art Festival, Villa Garikula, Georgia
2009 Formverk Art Zone, Eskilstuna, Sweden
2009 Museu Da Cerâmica, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2009 LaSALA Exposiciones Galería, Cigüñuela, Spain
2009 Brancaleone, Rome, Italy
2009 MKM Kraljevica Marka 4 and 8, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
2009 Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
CURATORIAL & ORGANIZATION
2011 PARADOXES IN VIDEO, Sazmanab Project, Tehran, Iran . Co-curator with Larry Caveney
2011 PARADOXES IN VIDEO, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran . Co-curator with Larry Caveney
2011 A Call, by Wafaa Bilal, White Box, New York, USA - Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran . Technical Director
2011 TV Dinner, Sazmanab Project, Tehran, Iran . Co-curator with Sandra Skurvida
2011 TV Dinner, Immigrant Movement International, New York, USA . Guest curator
2010 101010, Sazmanab Project, Tehran, Iran . Co-organizer with Anders Weberg
2010 Human Emotion Project, Sazmanab Project, Tehran, Iran . Co-curator with Alison Williams
2010 Human Emotion Project, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran . Co-curator with Alison Williams
2010 Much Love From Tehran, B&K Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark . Coordinator with Claus Rohland
2009 The Tehran/Pittsburgh YouTube Mix, Waffle Shop, Pittsburgh, USA . Co-curator with Jon Rubin
2009 The Tehran/Pittsburgh YouTube Mix, Sazmanab Project, Tehran, Iran . Co-curator with Jon Rubin
2009 Tehran/Pittsburgh in Random, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA . Co-curator with Jon Rubin
2009 Visiting Arts and art directors from UK, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran . Co-organizer with Sholeh Johnston
2009 Reciprocal Visit, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran . Co-organizer with Serra Ozhan
2008 Diptyches, Mehrva Gallery, Tehran, Iran . Co-curator with Mehrva Arvin
2008 The Goldfish’s World, Ax Cafe, Tehran, Iran . Co-organizer with Mohsen Rasoulof
PROJECTS & COLLABORATIONS
2011-ongoing Sazmanab Television
2011-ongoing OtherIS
2011-ongoing The Back Room
2011-ongoing Trade Routes
2010-ongoing Aether9
2010-ongoing Ghana Think Tank
2009-ongoing Conflict Kitchen
2009-ongoing Mohsen Gallery
2009-ongoing Sazmanab Project
2008-2009 Azad Gallery
2007-2009 Parkingallery
RESIDENCIES
2012 The Delfina Foundation, London, UK . Curator-in-residence
2010 Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey . Curator-in-residence
FELLOWSHIPS
2012 Art & Patronage Summit, London, UK . Summit Fellow
2011 Global Art Forum_5, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE . Forum Fellow
ART FAIRS
2011 Berliner-Liste, Berlin, Germany
AWARDS & GRANTS
2012 The Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC) Festival, Uttarakhand, India
2009 Street or Studio, Tate Modern, London, UK
2008 Good 50x70, Milan, Italy
2007 Visual Anthropology Festival, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
COLLECTIONS
APT Dubai
COMMISSIONS
2011 Festival Belluard Bollwerk, Fribourg, Switzerland
SELECTED TALKS, PRESENTATIONS, & PANELS
2011 International Studio & Curatorial Program (iscp), NYC, US . w/ Wafaa Bilal, Sandra Skurvida, Todd Lester
2011 Sazmanab Project, Tehran, Iran . w/ Sandra Skurvida
2011 The Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2011 Festival Belluard Bollwerk, Fribourg, Switzerland . w/ Jon Rubin, Dawn Weleski, Hamed Alizadeh
2011 Eyebeam, New York, USA
2011 Open Engagement, Portland, US . w/ Dawn Weleski
2011 Global Art Forum, Bidoun Art Park, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
2010 Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran . w/ Jon Rubin
2010 Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran . w/ Hamid Severi and Navid Khonsari
2010 Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 Waffle Shop, Pittsburgh, USA . w/ Jon Rubin
JURY
2011 apexart Franchise 2012, apexart, New York, USA
SELECTED PRESS, BOOKS, & CATALOGS
2011 Berliner-Liste, Germany, (Catalog)
2011 Mohsen Gallery, Iran, (Catalog), “Berliner-Liste 2011”
2011 Journal #3, UK, “Articulating Iranian Art,” Interview with Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi
2011 Aaran Gallery, Iran, (Catalog), “AKSBazi.com,” Haleh Anvari
2011 Festival Belluard Bollwerk, Switzerland, (Catalog)
2011 Art Dubai, UAE, (Catalog), “Global Art Forum_5: Changing Audiences”
2011 BBC Today, UK, “Food for Thought at Conflict Kitchen,” Jonny Dymond
2011 Mohsen Gallery, Iran, (Catalog), “Television,” Peyman Shafieezadeh
2011 BBC News, The World Today, UK, “Interview on Conflict Kitchen”
2010 Mohsen Gallery, Iran, (Catalog), “Kitchen,” Behnam Kamrani
2010 Art21, USA, “Pardon This Brief Commercial Interruption: Ghana Think Tank,” Erin Sickler
2010 Tassvir, Iran, “Tassvir-e Sal - Image of the Year,” Seifollah Samadian
2010 Deutsche Welle, Germany, “The kubideh miracle in the heart of Pennsylvania,” Interview with Samira Nikaeen
2010 Open Magazine, India, “Conflict Cuisine,” Jatin Gandhi
2010 PBS Frontline Tehran Bureau, “Conflict Kitchen,” Interview with Hamed Aleaziz
2010 The Independent, UK, “Eating like [and with] the 'enemy' at world's first Conflict Kitchen,”
2010 The Daily Star, Lebanon, “Strangers behind the looking glass,” Mehdi Moghimnejad
2009 Mohsen Gallery, Iran, (Catalog), “The Other,” Ali Ettehad
2009 Parkingallery, Iran, (Catalog), “Limited Access 2,” Amirali Ghasemi
2009 Emagazine, “HEP 2009”
2009 Apartment Project , Turkey, “Reciprocal Visit,” Selda Asal
2008 Tate Modern, UK, “Street or Studio”
2008 Tassvir, Iran, “Tassvir-e Sal - Image of the Year,” Seifollah Samadian
2008 Good 50x70 Cultural Association , Italy, “Good 50x70,” Tommaso Minetti
2007 ASI, Iran, (Catalog), “Visual Anthropology Festival,” Iradj Esmailpour Ghouchani