The
Other
Half
of
Iran
ART BY
iranian WOMEN
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September 19th - December 20th 2012
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The
Other
Half
of
Iran
ART BY
iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
press release
the other Half of Iran
ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
"The unique premise of the show is to develop a
platform for women artists living and working in
Iran today. From a curatorial perspective, I have
been working with upwards of 8 female artists,
using materials as diverse as photography,
painting, sculpture and video. What excites me
personally is that, through this exhibition, you
will have a rare opportunity to witness the work
of Iran’s best known and established artists as
well as some of its finest emerging talent. I am
also extremely grateful to Hans Ulrich Obrist for
agreeing to add his considerable gravitas to the
exhibition by kindly collaborating with me on
the catalogue.
I would also like to thank Sem Art Gallery for
their unequivocal support in helping to produce
and host what should be one of the most
dynamic shows of 2012."
Nina Moaddel
curator of the exhibition
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the other Half of Iran
ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
Shirin Aliabadi
Shirin Aliabadi’s photographs capture the
desire of today’s Iranian women to reshape
their image transforming themselves as acts of
cultural rebellion.
Excerpt from curators
Arianne Levene and Eglantine de Ganay «Made in
Iran» exhibition, Asia House, London, 2009
Shirin Aliabadi not only perpetuates the
pictorial representation served up by CNN or
VOA23, but also follows the Islamic Republic’s
discourse of cultural invasion of the West: that
young Iranian people are having an identity
crisis; that they are no longer identical with
themselves; that they cannot be themselves.
Barbad Golshiri
Excerpt from «For They Know What They Do
Know», Journal #3,
Volume I, Issue 3, 2011
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SHIRIN ALIABADI
EDUCATION
1973 •Tehran, Iran
•Works and lives in Iran
•Art History and Art,
University of Paris, Paris,
France
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
•Magic of Persia: Magical
Nights Silent Auction, Salsali
Private Museum, Dubai, UAE
2012
•Girls Night, The Farjam
Collection, Dubai, UAE
2011
•Chesa Planta, St. Moritz Art
Masters, Zuoz, Switzerland
2010
•Eye Love You, The Third Line,
Dubai, UAE
2006
•Operation Supermarket,
Kolding Design School,
A part of Images of the
Middle East, collaboration
with Farhad Moshiri, March,
Denmark
•Room installation, I3 Vanak
St. Gallery, January, Tehran,
Iran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
•Made in Iran, Asia House,
London, UK
•Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art
Museum, New York, USA
2008
•East West Dialogues,
Mysticism, Satire and The
Legendary Past, Leila
Taghinis, Milani Heller Gallery,
New York
•Mysticism, Satire and the
Legendary Past, East West
Dialogues, Leila Taghinis,
Milani Heller Gallery, New
York
2006
•Ethnic Marketing, curated by
Tirdad Zolghadr, 13 Vanak,
April, Tehran, Iran
•Images of the Middle East,
August, Copenhagen,
Denmark
•Art Without Borders, ACCEA,
August, Yerevan, Armenia
•Iran.Com, Museum of New
Art, 21 of October/end of
January 2007, Freiburg,
Germany
•V-­Day, Kashya Hildebrand
Gallery, Chelsea NY, USA
2005
•Beyond Black, The Third Line,
Dubai, UAE
•After The Revolution, KM
Kulturunea Erakustaretoa,
curated by Octavio Zaya,
July 20, San Sebastian, Italy
•It’s Hard to Touch the Real,
Ume, Gothenburg, Oslo,
Tallinn (touring exhibit)
•Almost Nothing, Extraspazio,
Rome, Italy
•Welcome, curated by Farhad
Moshiri, Kashya Hildebrand
Gallery, New York, USA
ACQUISITIONS
•Collection of Deutsche Bank
AG, Germany
•It’s Hard to Touch the Real
(Tour), Bildmuseet Ume,
University College of Fine
Arts, Ume
•It’s Hard to Touch the Real
(Tour), Yeans (artist-runspace), Gothenburg
•It’s Hard to Touch the Real
(Tour), Unge Kunstnerers
Samfund UKS (The
Association of Young Artists)
Olso, Norway
•It’s Hard to Touch the Real
(Tour), Tallinn Kunsthalle,
Tallinn, Estonia
2004
•Ethnic Marketing, curated
by Martine Anderfuhren
and Tirdad Zolghadr, Centre
d’Art Contemporain, Geneva,
Switzerland
•It’s Hard to Touch The
Real, Kunstverein, Munich,
Germany
2003
•Iranian Pool, curated by Maria
Chus Martinez, Casa Asia/
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
•Casa Asia, curated by Maria
Chus Martinez, Barcelona,
Spain
•Rooseum Centre for
Contemporary Art, Malmo,
Sweden
•Haft, curated by Michket
Krifa, l’Espace Landowski,
Ville De Boulogne Billancourt
Shirin aliabadi
city girl, 2010 - 2011
100 x 68 cm
Lambda Print
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ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
Samira Alikhanzadeh
What began as an obsession with windows
and light sources in interiors became the main
element in my intial works and has stayed
with me to present. Taking the position of an
observer, I created an overlay of window-­
like
openings to the interiors within my composition,
and introduced human figures and forms as
part of the cold and grey atmosphere within my
impression of a society filled with deeply satirical
contrasts reflected by my use of blues, purples,
and greens. I have since removed the frames and
now use the images minimally, printing them
directly on the surface and rendering them with
my own palede of hues.
Human figures and forms, mainly of women and
children, and brides and grooms in the form of
found photographs render the passage of time
as a melancholic truth yet they also express
the humour found in most old photographs
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reflected by hair and dress styles of the day:
just as our photographs may be found amusing
by their viewers in the not too distant future.
The images I use in my work date to the
30’s, 40’s and 50’s; a period following the
banishment of the veil in Iran. By applying
mirrors to the surface, I create a marked
though incomplete, presence of the viewers
within the framework of my composition. I
thus make a direct connection between the
subjects in the past and the viewers in the
present. They in turn become a part of the
composition and possible descendants of the
subjects, looking into a past, or perhaps like
I, satisfying their voyeuristic urge to enter the
lives and memories of generations gone by.
Samira Alikhanzadeh
SAMIRA ALIKHANZADEH
EDUCATION
1998
•MA, Painting, Azad University,
Art and Architecture School,
Tehran, Iran
1996
•BA, Painting, Azad University,
Art and Architecture School,
Tehran, Iran
1967 •Born in Tehran, Iran
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
•Art Space Gallery, London, UK
2008
•Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2004
•Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2011
•Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2005
•Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2001
•Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
1999
•Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
•No Subject, 1x1 Gallery, Dubai,
UAE
•The Elephant in the Dark, Devi
Art Foundation, Gurgaon,
India
•Inbetweeness, Mahe-Mehr
Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010
•I Am Not Half the Man I Used
to Be, Dar Al Funoon Gallery,
Kuwait
•Yek, Do, Se (1, 2, 3): Three
Contemporary Iranian Artists,
Los Angeles County Museum
of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles,
USA
•Recent Self Portraits, Silk Road
Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Iran Inside Out, Farjam
Collection, Dubai, UAE
•AB Gallery, Lucerne,
Switzerland
•The Other, Mohsen Gallery,
Tehran, Iran
2009
•Dar Al Funoon, Kuwait
•Routes II, Waterhouse & Dodd
Gallery, London, UK
•Off the Loom: The Persian
Carpet in Contemporary
Iranian Art, Assar Art Gallery,
Tehran, Iran
•Guns and Roses, Eleven
Howland Gallery, London, UK
Self
•Portraits, Tarahan Azad
Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2008
•Whispered Secrets,
Murmuring Dreams, Mall
Gallery, London, UK
•Wishes and Dreams, Iran’s
New Generation Emerges,
New York Academy of Art,
New York, USA
•Planting New Roots, Dar AlFunoon Galley, Kuwait
2007
•32 Oskou, Students of Aydin
Aghdashloo, Iranian Artists’
Forum, Tehran, Iran
•Broken Promises, Forbidden
Dreams, Iran Heritage
Foundation, London, UK
•Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Wishes and Dreams, Iran’s
New Generation Emerges,
Meridian International Center,
Washington DC, USA
•Self Portrait, Iranian Artists’
Forum, Society of Iranian
Painters, Tehran, Iran
2004
•Trois Regards Persans,
Salle Polyvalente de la
Mediatheque, Issy-lesMoulineaux, France
2010
•Contemporary Istanbul,
Istanbul, Turkey
•Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
2009
•Paris Photo, Paris, France
•Art Paris, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2000
•The First Painting Biennial,
Tehran Museum of
Contemporary Art, Tehran,
Iran
2008
•Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
1995
•The Third Painting Biennial,
Tehran Museum of
Contemporary Art, Tehran,
Iran
•Los Angeles County Museum
of Art
•Salsali Private Museum; Devi
Art Foundation
COLLECTIONS
•Tehran Museum of
Contemporary Art
2001
•New Experiences, Society of
Iranian Painters, Iranian Artists’
Forum, Tehran, Iran
•Contemporary Iranian Art
Exhibition, Ataturk Cultural
Center, Istanbul, Turkey
•Contemporary Iranian Art
Exhibition, Modern Art Gallery,
Ankara, Turkey
•Contemporary Iranian
Drawing Exhibition, Barg
Gallery, Tehran, Iran
1999
•Contemporary Iranian
Drawing Exhibition, Barg
Gallery, Tehran, Iran
FAIRS & BIENNALES
2011
•Kunst Zürich, Zürich,
Switzerland
•Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul,
Turkey
•Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi,
UAE
•Scope Basel, Basel,
Switzerland
•Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
2003
•Palme e Palmizi, Palazzo
Allocca, Naples, Italy
•Guest Artist of the Dena
Group, Esfahan Museum of
Contemporary Art, Esfahan,
Iran
Samira alikhanzadeh
#23 from the self-portrait series, 2011
140 x 100 cm
Digital print, mirror fragments and acrylic on board
Edition 2 /3
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ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
Mehraneh Atashi
The Iranian art world is rich in talented young
photographers. Mehraneh Atashi is one of the
best known of these. Her most celebrated series
is called Bodyless. It consists of images made
in a traditional Iranian Zourkhaneh, or «house of
strength», where men practice physical exercise,
accompanied by drumming, religious chants and
readings from epic literature. The practitioners are
called Pahlavans, or «heroes». Atashi places herself
in the centre of each image, making an adroit
use of mirrors. A more recent series, Hanging
Gardens, explores the idea of illusion through the
manipulation of landscape imagery. An essential
theme in all her work is the fluctuating border
that divides reality from unreality. Photography,
with its emphasis on what is real, is a particularly
appropriate medium for this.
I look at my work as a kind of archives of the
self, which allows me to create a method to
understand the world around me, and these
archive mostly are in the form of self-portraits.
My interest in self-­
portrait is twofold: on the
one hand is inserting myself into a genre and
establishing a relationship with photography as
both a medium and an apparatus. On the other
hand self-portrait is a mode of re-­capturing a
visual space, an attempt to re-­claim a space in
the picture plane hijacked by forces of power, a
space within which I am trying to insert myself. I
am interested in where these two approaches to
self-­portraiture collide: photography and power.
Zourkhaneh (from the series Bodyless I, 2004)
was the beginning of this exercise. This is where
religion, tradition, and virility, symbol of the
Persian hero, are all mixed. A place traditional
gymnasium dedicated to the development of
men’s bodily strength to fight.
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Mehraneh Atashi
MEHRANEH ATASHI
EDUCATION
1980 •Born in Tehran, Iran
2002
•BFA, Photography, Art
University of Tehran
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
•Untitled, Self-Portraits, Silk
Road Gallery, Tehran
2002
•Mannequin, Iranian Artist’s
Forum, Tehran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
•Light from the Middle East:
New Photography, curated
by Marta Weiss, Victoria &
Albert Museum, London
•Individual Journey to Poetry,
8 female international photographers, Palais Porcia,
Vienna, Austria
•In Between, The state of in
between in contemporary
Iranian Art, Atelierhause Salzamt, Linz, Austria
•Tbilisi photo festival, Georgia
•As part of Part of Me : mise
en abyme, a video program
curated Sandra Skurvida for
Iranian Art Now festival and
exhibition/Cité international
des Arts, Paris
•International Movie Night on
nothing, gulistan video, geh8
art space and studio eV,
Dresden, Germany
•The Elephant In The Dark Contemporary Iranian Artists
from The Lekha and Anupam
Poddar Collection, Devi Art
Foundation, New Delhi, India
2011
•Iran via video current (NYC/
Tehran), Thomas Erben
Gallery, curated by: Amirali
Ghasemi and Sandra Skurvida
•Metropolis City Life in the
Urban Age / Noorderlitch
Photo Festival, Groningen
•Photofestival 2011 Metropolis
City Life in the Urban Age,
Noorderlitch Photo Festival,
Groningen
•Die Iranische Weltanschauung,
Freies Museum, Berlin
•Distributing the Public
Opinion, curated by Barbad
Golshiri, Roda Sten, Goteborg,
Sweden
•Right Here, Right Now,
International Format Festival,
Derby Museum ,UK
2010
•Bimzar (fear land) Azad Art
Gallery, Tehran
2009
•Inside Tehran Out, Forum
Schlossplatz, Aarau,
Switzerland
•165 ans de Photographie
Iranienne, Musee du Quai
Branly, Paris
•Photography Exhibition
Italian School of Tehran
(Petro della Vale)
2008
•Bag Factory Art Galley,
Johannesburg, South Africa
•After The Revolution,
Contemporary Photography
from Tehran and California,
San Francisco Art Commission
2007
•Made in Tehran, Cicero
Gallery, Berlin
•Biennale des Images du
Monde, Photoquai, Musee du
Quai Branly, Paris
•Video, DVD magazine
Treibsand [volume 01]:
Analysing while Waiting for
Time to Pass, Contemporary
Art from Tehran, Azad Art
Gallery, Tehran
2006
•Who Do You Think I Am? Art
Borderline, London
•Long Night of Sciences, in
Freie Universitaet /Berlin
2005
•Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris
2004
•9th Biennial of Iranian
Contemporary Photography,
Tehran
2003
•12 Photographic Journeys,
Brunei Gallery, London
AWARDS & RESIDENCY
2012
•Atelierhaus Salzamt
Residency, Linz, Austria
•Special Mention of Tenth
Scholarships Robert Villagraz,
Efti, Madrid
•First Award of International
Mobile Film Festival,
Khaarkan (The Bush Keeper)
collaboration with Majid
Ghaffari, Prague
•Winner of Paul Hill
Exposure Awards as Part
of The Format International
Photography Festival
•Finalist of Artworks
International, Inc.
Artist Business Career
Development Grant
2008
•Bag Factory Artists’ Studios,
Johannesburg, South Africa
2006
•Theerta Workshop
Residency, Candy, Sri Lanka
2004
•Letter of Commendation: The
Second Annual Award Kaveh
Golestan
PUBLICATIONS
2011
•Seeing studies Natascha
Sadr Haghighian & Ashkan
Sepahvand for the institute for
incongruous translation
2009
•Different sames: new
perspective in contemporary
Iranian art, Hossein
Amirsadeghi
COLLECTIONS
•British Museum
•Devi Art Foundation
2008
•Iranian photography now,
Rose Issa
2005
•12 photographic journeys,
Anahita Ghabaian, Minou
Saberi
Mehraneh Atashi
bodyless, 2004
76,5 x 112,5 cm
Digital print
Edition of 5
the other Half of Iran
ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian’s creative
practice is imbued with the aesthetics of her
Iranian culture. Inspired by its architecture, by
the traditions of Islamic geometry and pattern,
and by techniques such as reverse glass
painting, mirror mosaic and relief sculpture,
Farmanfarmaian has revived and adapted these
forms to create startlingly original works.
The mirror mosaic that characterises her most
celebrated works draws on an Iranian decorative
form known as Aineh-kari. This technique dates
back to the sixteenth century, when pieces of
mirror, broken in transit from Europe to Persia, were
recycled to create decorative architectural panels.
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian is a senior figure
in contemporary Iranian art, with a distinguished
career spanning over 50 years. Farmanfarmaian
spent many years living in New York as an art student
and later as a fashion illustrator at department
store Bonwit Teller, where she worked alongside
Andy Warhol. She returned to Iran in the 1960s
and established herself as an artist, holding major
exhibitions in Tehran, Paris, Venice and New York.
After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, she took refuge
in New York, returning to Tehran in 2000 where she
continues to work today. Her distinctive aesthetic
translates Persian pictorial language into modern
forms by combining mirror mosaic and reverse
glass painting techniques with contemporary
abstract styles. Her shimmering installations draw
upon Islamic geometric patterning, Sufi symbolism,
symmetry and traditional craftsmanship.
Excerpt from curators Suhanya Raffel and
Russell Storer
discussing the work of Monir Shahroudy
Farmanfarmaian being shown as part of The 6th
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art,
Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia
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MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN
EDUCATION
1924 •Born in Qazvin, Iran
•Works and lives in Iran
1949
•Graduated from Parsons
School of Design
1946
•Faculty of Fine Art, Tehran
University
1945
•Cornell University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
•Zendegi, Beirut Exhibition
Center, Beirut, Lebanon
•Kaleidoscope, The Third Line,
Dubai, UAE
2009
•Art Basel Miami Beach, The
Third Line Booth, Miami, USA
2008
•Geometry of Hope, Leighton
House Museum, London, UK
•Recollections, The Third Line,
Doha, Qatar
2007
•Recollections, The Third Line,
Dubai, UAE
•Monir Shahroudy
Farmanfarmaian: Mirror
Mosaics, Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, UK
2006
•Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, UK
2000
•Center for Iranian Modern Art,
New York, USA
1977
•Galerie Denise René, Paris and
New York, France and USA
1976
•Iran American Society
1975
•Jacques Kaplan Gallery, New
York and Washington DC,
USA
•Kennedy Centre, Washington
DC, USA
1973
•Iran American Society
1968
•Italian Institute
1963
•Ecole des Beaux Arts,
University of Tehran, Iran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
•Jameel Prize, Casa Árabe,
Madrid, Spain
•Independent Art Fair, New
York, USA
2011
•Jameel Art Prize, Victoria &
Albert Museum, London, UK
•Rose Issa Projects, London,
UK
2010
•There Is Always a Cup of Sea
to Sail in, 29th Biennale de
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
•The Future of Tradition -­The
Tradition of Future, Haus der
Kunst, Munich, Germany
•Masterpieces of
Muhammadan Art, Munich,
Germany
2009
•6th Asia Pacific Trienniale
of Contemporary Art,
Queensland Art Museum,
Australia (through 2010)
•East-­West Divan and Living
Traditions: Contemporary Art
From Afghanistan, Iran and
Pakistan, Venice, Biennale,
Venice, Italy
•Power of Ornament,
Orangery, Lower Belvedere,
Vienna, Austria
2008
•Geometry of Hope, Leighton
House Museum, London, UK
•Monir Shahroudy
Farmanfarmaian, Zentrum
Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
2007
•ING Bank Exhibition, Geneva,
Switzerland
2002
•Grey Gallery, New York
University, New York, NY
1999
•Center for Iranian Modern Art,
New York, NY
1998
•Kent Fine Art, Kent, CT
1986-­87
•Museum of Modern Art, New
York, USA
1985-­86
•Bernice Steinbaum Gallery,
New York, NY (Touring
Exhibition)
•Muscarelle Museum of Art,
Williamsburg VA
•University of Idaho
•Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo,
Texas
•Tampa Museum of Art
•UWM Museum, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
•Toledo Museum of Art,
Toledo, Ohio
•Wake Forest University, N.C.
•Boca Raton, Florida
•Hunter Museum of Art,
Tennessee
•Arkansas Art Center, Little
Rock, Arkansas
1985-­86
•Butler Institute of American
Art, Ohio
•Phillips Exeter Academy,
Exeter, New Hampshire
1982-­84
•The Heritage of Islam, New
York, USA
•Royal Ontario Museum,
Ontario, Canada
•Art Students League of New
York, NY
•Pacific Asia Museum,
Pasadena, CA
•Leila Taghinia-­Milani Gallery,
New York, NY
1976
•Iran America Society, Tehran, Iran
1975
•Grey Art Gallery, New York
University, NY
•Blue, Takht-e-Jamshid Gallery,
Tehran, Iran
•Ministry of Culture and Arts
1973
•Palais des Beaux-­Arts,
Brussels
1968
•Columbia University, Center
for Iranian Studies, New York,
NY
1965
•Palais des Congres, Monte
Carlo, Monaco
1964
•Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
•Fourth Biennale of Tehran,
Tehran, Iran
1958
•First Tehran Biennale, Tehran, Iran
•Venice Biennale, Iranian Pavilion,
Gold Medal, Venice, Italy
MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN
ACQUISITIONS
•
•
•
Carpet Museum, Tehran,
Iran
Chase Manhattan Bank,
New York, USA
Grey Art Gallery, New York
University, New York, USA
•
•
Hotel Intercontinental,
Tehran and Shiraz, Iran
Queensland Gallery
of Contemporary Art,
Australia
•
•
Swisscorp Bank, Geneva,
Switzerland
Tehran Museum of
Contemporary Art,
Tehran, Iran
•
•
The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, USA
Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, UK
PUBLICATIONS
•Farmanfarmaian, Monir
Shahroudy, Cosmic
Geometry. DAMIANI/The
Third Line.
•Farmanfarmaian, Monir
Shahroudy and Houshmand,
Zara, A Mirror Garden: A
Memoir. 2007. Random
House Inc.
•Issa, Rose. Mosaics of
Mirrors: Monir Shahroudy
Farmanfarmaian, 2006.
Nazar Research and Cultural
Institute, Tehran,Iran
•Farmanfarmaian, Monir
Shahroudy. Heartaches.
2006. Nazar Research and
Cultural Institute, Tehran, Iran
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
group 9 from convertible series, 2010
70 x 70 x 70 cm each panel (6)
Mirror and reverse glass painting on plaster and wood
Image Courtesy of The Artist and The Third Line
the other Half of Iran
ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
Golnaz Fathi
I studied classical Persian calligraphy over six
years, which is the kind of work that needs
constant practice for mastery of skills and
techniques. In Iranian culture, since ancient
times writing has always been considered of
divine origin. Through the years I have come to
understand that an appreciation of the value
of calligraphy is dependent on reading and
understanding the written context, however this
was not my ideal and so I changed the direction,
in turning to abstraction. I started to break the
rules, all the strict guidelines that I had learned,
however I remain thankful for all those years
of studying traditional calligraphy. I learned all
the structures of the alphabets by practicing 8
hours a day. This rhythm is inscribed in my mind
forever and that is the main reason that I am
able to treat the letters the way that I do. This
is how I can get the meaning from them and
transform into from and composition. Nothing
is written, cause it can’t be read with the eyes,
but must be understood with imagination and
read by the heart.
Golnaz Fathi
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GOLNAZ FATHI
EDUCATION
1972
•Born inTehran, Iran
•Works and lives in Iran
1996
•Diploma of Iranian Calligraphy,
Iranian Society of Calligraphy,
Tehran, Iran
•1995
•Bachelors of Art in Graphics,
Azad Art University, Tehran,
Iran
1945
•Secondary Studies Degree,
Tehran, Iran
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
•Liminal-­Subliminal,
October Gallery, London, UK
•Controlled Chaos, The Third
Line, Dubai, UA
•Ride Like The Wind, Sultan
Gallery, Kuwait
•Sleepless Nights, The Third
Line, Dubai, UAE
2009
•Doha Series, The Third Line,
Doha, Qatar
2006
•Golnaz Fathi, The Third Line,
Dubai, UAE
2008
•My Freedom, Xerxes Gallery,
London, UK
2005
•Space SD, Beirut, Lebanon
2007
•Beyond Words, La Fontaine
Centre of Contemporary Art,
Bahrain
•Un-written, The Third Line,
Dubai, UAE
•Virtual Painting Exhibition,
ArtəEast, New-York, USA
•Espace SD, Beirut, Lebanon
•Maison des Jeunes et de la
Culture de Neuilly, Neuilly-­sur-­
Seine, France
2004
•Agence Le Carré Bleu, Paris,
France
•Galerie L’oeil du Huit, Paris,
France
•Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2002
•Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2000
•Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Shahr-e-Ketab Bookstore of
Niavaran, Tehran, Iran
1999
•Seyhoon Gallery, Tehran, Iran
1998
•Seyhoon Gallery, Tehran, Iran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
•The Elephant in the Dark,
Contemporary Iranian artists
from the Lekha and Anupam
Poddar Collection, Devi Art
Foundation, New Delhi, India
•“Transvangarde”,
Contemporary art from
around the world, October
Gallery, London
2011
•Written images:
Contemporary Calligraphy
from Middle East, Sundaram
Tagore Gallery, New York,
USA
•The Art of Writing, Art Forum
of Wiesbaden, Germany
•‘Transvangarde’ Contemporary
Art from Around The World,
October Gallery, London
2010
•Iran Inside Out, Farjam
Collection, Dubai, UAE
2009
•International Woman Artists’
Biennal, South Korea
•Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art
Museum, New York, USA
•Selseleh/Zelseleh: Movers
& Shakers in Contemporary
Iranian Art, Curated by Dr.
Layla Diba, Leila TaghiniaMilani Heller, Gallery, New
York, USA
2008
•Look What Love Has Done To
Us, Cramer Gallery, Geneva,
Switzerland
•Word Into Art: Artists of The
Modern Middle East, British
Museum at DIFC, Curated by
Venetia Porter, Dubai, UAE
2007
•Cutting Edge: Spotlight
on The Avant-Garde of
Emerging Countries,
Artcurial, Paris, France
•Collected Memories, ArtSpace
Gallery, London, UK
•Within and Without,
Nomoregrey Gallery, London,
UK
•Mah Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Unnamed Gallery, Amman,
Jordan
•Wishes and Dreams,
Meridian International Centre,
Washington DC, USA
•ARTPARIS 07, Grand Palais,
Paris, France
•Niavaran Artistic Creation
Foundation, Tehran, Iran
2006
•Transit, Istanbul Improvisation
Days, Istanbul, Turkey
•Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los
Angles, USA
•Word Into Art: Artists of The
Modern Middle East, The
British Museum, London, UK
•9th International Open
Exhibition, Woman Made
Gallery, Chicago, USA
2005
•Espace SD, Beirut, Lebanon
•Mah Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Italian School of Tehran,
Tehran, Iran
2004
•Depot Square Gallery, Boston,
USA
•Elga Wimmer Gallery, New
York City, USA
•Fatima Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Italian School of Tehran,
Tehran, Iran
•Royal Mirage Hotel, Dubai,
UAE
2003
•Williams Tower Gallery,
Houston, USA
•6th Tehran Contemporary
Painting Biennal, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Tehran,
Iran
•Italian School of Tehran,
Tehran, Iran
•The National Arts Club, New
York, USA
•Lo Sguardo Di Luce, Padova,
Italy
•New Art from Iran, Art Centre
of Plano, Plano, Texas, USA
•New Art from Iran, Museum
of Arts and Science, Daytona
Beach, Florida, USA
2002
•Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los
Angles, USA
•New Art from Iran, Art,
Museum of Southeast Texas,
Beaumont, Texas, USA
•New Art from Iran, Queen
Library Gallery, Jamaica, New
York, USA
2001
•La Maison du Livre, Brussels,
Belgium
•Hôtel de Ville de Saint-­Gilles,
Saint-­Gilles, Belgium
•Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Courtyard Gallery, Dubai, UAE
•Meridian International Centre,
Washington DC, USA
2000
•Azteca Gallery, Madrid, Spain
•Seyhoon Gallery, Tehran, Iran
1998
•Seyhoon Gallery, Tehran, Iran
1997
•1st Islamic World Calligraphy
Festival, Museum of
Contemporary art, Tehran, Iran
•Seyhoon Gallery, Tehran, Iran
1996
•Calligraphy Exhibition, Reza
Abbassi Museum, Tehran, Iran
•Calligraphy Exhibition,
Seyhoon Gallery, Tehran, Iran
1995
•Exhibition of Art University
Students, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Tehran,
Iran
1994
•Exhibition for Iranian Women
Painters, Turkey
1993
•2nd Painting and Miniature
Exhibition, Tehran Exhibition
Centre, Tehran, Iran
•2nd Tehran Contemporary
Painting Bienniale, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Tehran,
Iran
GOLNAZ FATHI
COLLECTIONS
•Salsali Private Museum
Awards
2011
•Chosen as a young Global
Leader - Economic Forum
2010
•Sharjah Calligraphy Biennal,
UAE,- selection Committee
2007
•Residence scholarship,
Fabrica, Treviso, Italy
2004
•Residence Scholarship, Cité
Internationale des Arts, Paris,
France
1995
•Best Woman Calligraphist in
Ketabat style, Iranian Society
of Calligraphy, Tehran, Iran
2003
•Residence Scholarship, Cité
Internationale des Arts, Paris,
France
1993
•Diploma of Honour in
Graphics and Painting,
Museum of Contemporary
Art, Tehran, Iran
ACQUISITIONS
•Brighton & Hove Museum,
England
•Carnegie Mellon University in
Doha, Qatar
•Islamic Art Museum, Malaysia
•Asian Civilization’s Museum,
Singapore
•The British Museum, London
•Devi art foundation, New
Delhi, India
•Farjam collection, Dubai
Golnaz Fathi
Untitled, 2011
200 x 150 cm
Mixed media on canvas
the other Half of Iran
ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
Shadi Ghadirian
Perhaps the only mentality of an outsider
about the Iranian woman is a black chador;
however I try to portray all the aspects of the
Iranian woman. The duality and contradiction of
life provides the motive for me to display this
contrast: a woman who one cannot say to what
time she belongs; a photograph from two eras;
a woman who is dazed; a woman who is not
connected to the objects in her possession. It
was very natural that after marriage, vacuum
cleaners, pots and pans find their way into my
photographs. The woman, here, is convicted
of a daily repetitive routine and for this
reason named the series Likee Everyday. The
photographs are not authentic documentations
but deal with current social issues.
Shadi Ghadirian
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SHADI GHADIRIAN
EDUCATION
1974 •Born in Tehran, Iran
•B.A degree in Photography, Azad
University, Tehran, Iran
•Worked for the Museum of
Photography (Akskhaneh Shahr)
•Photo Editor of Women In Iran Site
(www.womeniniran.com)
•Worked as Manager of the first
Iranian specialised photography
site (www.fanoosphoto.com)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
•Queen Gallery, Canada
•Miss Butterfly, Silk Road Gallery,
Tehran
2010
•Guild Art, Mumbai, India
2009
•Aeroplastics Contemporary, Belgium
•FCG Duesseldorf, Germany
•CO2 Gallery, Rome
•Boudin Lebon Gallery, Paris
2008
•Los Angeles County Museum of
Art, California
•Silk Road Gallery, Tehran
•Tasweer Gallery, India
2007
•B21 Gallery, Dubai
•Photography Festival of Istanbul,
Turkey
2006
•French Cultural Centre, Damascus,
Syria
•Al Mamal Foundation, Jerusalem,
Palestine
2002
•Villa Moda, Kuwait
2001
•Exhibition of Fnac, France
1999
•Golestan Gallery, Tehran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
•The French Cultural Centre in
Yangon, Burma
•Photo Espana Festival, Spain
•Cool Art Café, Brussels
•Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
•Zendegi, Beirut Exhibition Centre,
Beirut
•Artespacio CAF, Bolivia
•Staging Identity, Galerie Kashya
Hildebrand, Switzerland
•Face Contact, PhotoEspana,
Madrid, Spain
•Idols and Icons, Yavuz Fine Art,
Singapore
•Pool, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
•Tehran Monoxide Project, Kherad
School, Tehran
•Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010
•Galerie Ernst Hilger, Austria l
•Cmooa Gallery, Morocco
•LTMH Gallery, New York
•Stare at The Other Side, Albareh
Art Gallery, Bahrain
•Barakat, Stefan Stux Gallery, New
York
•Waterhouse & Dodd, London
•The Silk Road, Saatchi Gallery, Lille,
France
•Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland
•IRAN: Preview of The Past,
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
•Act of Faith, Abdijdmuseum Ten
Duinen’ in Koksijde, Belgium
2009
•Masques of Shahrzad ,Mall
Gallery, London
•Group Photo Exhibition, Italian
School, Tehran
•165 years of Iranian Photography,
Du Quai Branly Museum, Paris
•Routes, Waterhouse & Dodd
Gallery, London
•Guild Art Gallery, New York
•Galerie Ernst Hilger, Austria
•Arario Gallery New York
2008
•Word Into Art, DIFC, Dubai
•Cramer Contemporary,
Switzerland
•Exprmntl gallery, Toulouse, France
2007
•Noorderlicht photofestival,
Netherlands
•La Paz, Bolivia
•San Diego Convention Centre,
California
•Silk Road Gallery, Tehran
2006
•Blessed are the Merciful, Feigen
Contemporary, New York
•Artspace Witzenhausen,
Amsterdam
•The Veiled Mirror, Contemporary
Iranian Photography, De Santos
Gallery, Houston, Texas
•Word into Art : Artists of the
Modern Middle East, The British
Museum, London, Image of Middle
East, DCCD, Denmark
•Ey Iran, Contemporary Iranian
Photography, Gold Cost City Art
Gallery, Australia
•Representation and Use of the
Body in Art, Galerie Helene
Lamarque, Paris
•Le Rectangle, Lyon, France
•Selyemes Fenyek, Budapest
•Inaugura en Tucumán, Mexico
2005
•How Eastern Look at Western,
CCCB, Barcelona
•Rebel Mind Gallery, Berlin
•Foto Art Festival, Poland
•After The Revolution, Sansebastian,
Spain
•Aeroplastics Gallery, Belgium
•N Gallery, Georgia
•Galata Fotograyanesi, Istanbul
•Boudin Lebon Gallery, Paris
•Third Line Gallery, Dubai
2004
•San Jose Museum of Art, New
York
•The House of World Cultures,
Berlin
•Photo Biennale of Moscow, Russia
•Parliament of Brussels
•Photo Biennale of Luxemburg
•Chobi Mella 3, Bangladesh
2003
•Harem Fantasies and the new
Scheherzades, Spain and France
•Sharjah International Biennial 6,
Sharjah
•Women In Orient Women in
Occident, Germany
•Konstmuseum Gutenberg, Sweden
•Ville De Bologna, France
•Veil Exhibition, The New Art
Gallery, Walsall, Liverpool, Oxford,
England
•Sorbonne University, Paris
2002
•Silk Road Gallery, Tehran
•The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Tehran
•Glimpse of Iran, Thessaloniki
Museum of Photography, Greece
2001
•A Space Gallery, Toronto
•Barbican Art Center (Iranian
Contemporary Art), London
•Photospania Festival, Spain
•Regards Persans, Espace Electra,
Paris
2000
•Inheritance, Leiton House Museum,
London
•Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center
Copenhagen, Denmark
•Ballymena Arts Festival, Northern
Ireland
•The House of World Cultures,
Berlin
•The Iranian Women’s Studies
Foundation, Worth Ryder Gallery
at University of California, Berkeley
1999
•Leighton House Museum, London
1998
•Sooreh International Photo
Exhibition, Tehran
•Barg Gallery, Tehran
1997
•Group Exhibition (About Children)
Aria Gallery, Tehran
•Tehran International Documentary
Photo Exhibition, Tehran
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
•The British Museum, London.
•Musee des Arts Contemporains,
Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris.
•Mumok (Museum Moderner
Kunst Sittung Ludwig),
Viennaos Angeles County
Museum of Art, California
•Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, California
•The Sackler Gallery,
Smithsonian institution,
Washington DC
•Victoria and Albert Museum,
London
•Museum of Contemporary Art,
Tehran
•Saatchi Gallery, London
•Devi Art Foundation, India
Shadi Ghadirian
like everyday #10, 2000
50 x 50 cm
C-Print
Edition 9/10
the other Half of Iran
ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
MAHSA KARIMIZADEH
The stimulus is found in black holes in space
which have become the substance of creativity.
The form and the design of the statues have
been determined by a feminist approach to
such an extent that in some works a trail of
eroticism can be seen. The arrangements take
shape in audaciously liberal forms, there is no
sign of servitude or binding principles, the works
are boldly feminine and spring from feminine
thought; just as fluid, just as beautiful and just
as mysterious and illusive. In these artworks
tiny particles take on greater prominence in
comparison with larger, more domineering
forms/shapes, despite the fact that on first
impression the lader seem to comprise the bulk
of the work rather than the restless, mischievous
particles. The artist has used the overbearing
forms solely to emphasize the smaller shapes
with black as the dominant colour along with
yellow and red in accompaniment, creating a
strong contrast between the somber and the
light-hearted. With their inherent energy, the
colours have brought to life an image that would
otherwise lack dynamism. Interestingly enough,
Persian poet philosophers such as Rumi, have
time and time again referred to the likeness
between the myriads of creatures that make up
the world about us. The tiniest particles in many
cases bear a striking resemblance to gargantuan
life forms: microscopic and telescopic images
sometimes appear identical; as if the whole
universe is not only in unity but one and the
same in origin. The similarities do not seize to
amaze. The statues of Mahsa Karimizadeh are
an invitation to view these shapes that seem
so closely related; a call to consider the hidden
beauties from an all encompassing perspective
and a reminder of the fluidity and impermanence
of life.
At the time I was searching on Hubble pictures
and microscopic images, to see the oneness of
nature as the great source of my inspiration, I may
have forgotten to take a look at the more tangible
and near me!
For several years I was working on black holes
and helix forms, and when I made the same
forms in smaller size and more lively colours,
the feminine result was a great discovery of
the black hole inside of me, which I had been
looking for at far far galaxies.
Shadab Dadgar (Translated by Abdi Farazi)
Mahsa Karimizadeh
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MAHSA KARIMIZADEH
EDUCATION
1980 •Born in Shiraz, Iran
•B.A. Sculpture, Tehran
University, Faculty of Fine Art
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
•Sculpture, Khak Gallery,
Tehran
2010
•Sculpture, Khak Gallery,
Tehran
2009
•Exhibition of Sculpture and
Painting, Khak Gallery, Tehran
2006
•Exhibition of Sculpture
and Photo-­Sculpture, Khak
Gallery, Tehran
•Exhibition of Painting, Shiraz,
Zarif Gallery, Tehran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
•Sculpture Group Exhibition,
Belgian Ambassador’s
Residence, Tehran
•Sculpture Exhibition, Khak
Gallery, Tehran
2009
•5 Artists x 3 Dimensions,
Bastakiya, XVA Gallery, Dubai
2008
•The First Iranian Annual
Sculpture EXPO Artists’
Forum, Tehran
•The First Urban Sculpture
Biennial, Barg Gallery, Tehran
•Sculpture Exhibition, Iranian
Artists’ Forum, Tehran
COLLECTIONS
•Private Collections in Tehran,
Dubai and Geneva.
•Sculpture Exhibition, Iranian
Garden Museum, Tehran
•Creek Art Fair, Bastakiya, XVA
Gallery, Dubai
•5th Iran Sculpture Biennial,
(Winner Second Prize) Tehran
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Tehran
2007
•Sculpture Exhibition, Self
Portrait, Imam Ali Museum,
Tehran
•Visual Arts Festival, (Winner
Second Prize) Tehran
Museum of Contemporary
Art, Tehran
2006
•Selection of 1st Tehran
International Sculpture
Symposium, Imam Ali
Museum, Tehran
•Installation Exhibition, Tehran
Gallery
•Sculpture Exhibition, Consulat
INBA Center, Mexico city
•Sculpture Exhibition, Iranian
Artists’ Forum, Tehran
•Sculpture Exhibition
(Selection of Under 35 Years
Old Sculptors), Iranian Artists’
Forum, Tehran
2005
•4th Iran Sculpture Biennial,
Tehran
•Sculpture Exhibition of
Graduated Students Tehran
University, Faculty of Fine
Arts, Tehran
1996 - 2001
•Several Group Painting
Exhibitions, Shiraz and Tehran
Mahsa Karimizadeh
Yellow - 3, 2010
Diam 100 cm
Acrylic sheets, steel
the other Half of Iran
ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
Bita Vakili’s
A cursory look at Bita Vakili’s artistic career
reveals several periods. ln the first period we see
free abstraction, a process that Babak Etminani
called «behavior of material», i.e. leaving the white
surface of the canvas to pigments and thinners.
lnspired by images of the nature, Vakili brings
together paint and other medias in this artistic
practice and abandons them on the surface of
canvas. ln the end, she polishes her paintings,
applying controlled brushstrokes. During this
period, Vakili is searching for familiar forms in
the nature, depicting them in unusual distanceseither too close or too far. From this perspective,
clouds, waters, streaks in wood and stone, cosmic
dust and colorful nebulas assume an abstract
form and the artist seeks to record both free and
captured forms of the infinite universe.
This arrangement is broken up in the next
period and the artist stands within a normal
distance from forms in the nature. She looks at
objects more closely and, as she puts it, dives
to lower altitudes.
During this phase, Vakili’s paintings come to
accommodate objects such as textile, natural
materials, petals, leaves and moss. lt was a kind
of technical experiment with the texture of
material, though. The artist strives, at the same
time, to approach the palpitating heart of life by
adding elements of the nature. She says, «I use
the nature to express my feelings.»
ln her recent work, Vakili has moved beyond the
phase during which she was trying to depict the
early monster and abyss. Now she is focusing on
the way her new art world is shaped. She is striving
to mix her emotions with the composure and
dignity of the nature to achieve effervescence and
excitement of colors, media and light on canvas.
She is no longer seeking to portray phenomena
of the nature, because they do not seem to be
adequate. Vakili is trying to depict scent, taste
and even temperature of the space and to convey
different emotions on canvas.
Corporal elements have become omnipresent
in Vakili’s recent work, switching her focus on
the depth rather than surface, where human
beings come from the womb. Twisting forms on
canvases, in a way, allude to the embryonic spiral
movements. Pure, limpid and grey (sometimes
pink and red) colors point to the embryonic
phase.
Excerpt from Essence of Form Through the Abyss
of Color by M. B. ZIAI,
March 2012, Paris
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BITA VAKILI
EDUCATION
1973 •Born in Tehran, Iran
•BA in Painting, Azad
University, Tehran, Iran
•MA in Painting Art University,
Tehran Iran
•Member of Society of Iranian
Painters
•Member of Institute for
Promotion of Visual Arts
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
•Mahe e Mehr Art Gallery,
Tehran, Iran
2010
•Mahe e Mehr Art Gallery,
Tehran, Iran
2009
•Mahe e Mehr Art Gallery,
Tehran, Iran
2005
•Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2002
•Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2001
•Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
•A Persian Art Exhibition, Bait
Muzna Gallery, Muscat, Oman
•Art Dubai, Dubai
•Iranian First Charity Art
Auction, Shirin Art Gallery
•The Second Exhibition of
Young Talented Painters,
Pardis e Mellat Art Gallery
2010
•Echoes in Blue, Contemporary
Iranian Art From Tehran,
James Gray Gallery, CA, USA
•Haft Negah (7 views),
Exhibition of Iranian visual Art,
Tehran, Iran
2009
•Haft Negah (7 views),
Exhibition of Iranian Visual
Art, Tehran, Iran
2007
•Exhibition of Contemporary
Women Artists, Lazar Art
Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•The 4th International
Painting Bienniale of The
Islamic World-­Saba Cultural
& Artistic Institute, Tehran,
Iran
•Haft, Samar Art Gallery,
Tehran, Iran
•The 2nd Exhibition of Iranian
Contemporary Art in Support
of Cancer Patients-Niavaran
Creation Foundation Tehran
Iran
•Iranian Spring, The first
Scientific Seminar & Exhibition
of Poetry & Visual Arts, Tehran
Museum of Contemporary Art
•The 1st Exhibition of Iranian
Contemporary Art in Support
of Psychic Patients, Ebnesina
Cultural Centre, Tehran, Iran
•Mina Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2006
•The 1st Exhibition of Iranian
Contemporary Art in Support
of Cancer Patients, Niavaran
Creation Foundation, Tehran,
Iran
•The 1st Exhibition of Iranian
Contemporary Art in Support
of Peace, Niavaran Creation
Foundation, Tehran, Iran
•Mah Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Abstract Group Exhibition by
Members of the Society of
the Iranian Painters, Niavaran
Creation Foundation, Tehran, Iran
•Beijing International Art
Exposition, China
•The First Tehran Art Expo,
Vahdat Cultural Centre,
Tehran, Iran
2005
•Members of the Society of
the Iranian Painters, Aban Art
Gallery, Tehran-Iran
•Spiritual Art Exhibition,
Niavaran Creation Foundation,
Tehran, Iran
•Mah Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Nature in Oriental Art, Saba
Cultural and Artistic Center,
Tehran, Iran
2002
•Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Aryan Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•The Exhibition of Paintings by
the Female Artists, Ebnesina
Cultural Centre, Tehran, Iran
•The Exhibition to Support of
Bam, Tehran, Iran
•Members of The Society of
The Iranian Painters, Arge
Bam, Kerman, Iran
•The Celebration of the
Anniversary of the society of
Iranian Painters, The House of
Iranian Artists, Tehran, Iran
•Members of the Society
of Iranian Painters, Zanjan
University, Zanjan, Iran
•Iranian Cotemporary Artists,
Lazar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2004
•Fatima Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Haft, Samar Art Gallery-,
Tehran, Iran
•The Selection of Iranian
Contemporary Arts Over
Three Generation, National
Museum of Contemporary
Arts, Armenia
•Contemporary Iranian
Drawing Exhibition, Barg
Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•Cite’ Internationale des Arts,
Paris, France
•Ebnesina Art Gallery, Tehran,
Iran
•Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
COLLECTIONS
•International private collection
•Museum of Contemporary
Arts-Abadan-Iran
2003
•Iranian Contemporary Art,
Total Arts at Court Yard,
Dubai, UAE
•The House of Iranian Artists,
Tehran, Iran
•Beyond the Art of Illumination:
The Contemporary Art of Iran,
City Escape Art Gallery, North
Vancouver, Canada
•The First Annual Exhibition
of Iranian Artists the Institute
for Promotion of the Visual
Arts, Iran
2001
•The Selection of
Contemporary Paintings,
Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
•The Celebration of Culture and
Art, Shayan hotel, Kish Island, Iran
•The House of Iranian Artists,
Tehran, Iran
•The Exhibition of Visual
Arts by Tehran Female
Artists, Niavaran Creation
Foundation, Tehran, Iran
•Members of the Society of
Iranian Painters, Mehregan
Exhibition, Sanandaj, Iran
•New Experiences Exhibition,
Members of the Society of
Iranian Painters, The House
of Iranian Artists, Tehran, Iran
•Members of The Society of
Iranian Painters, Bahman
Cultural Centre, Tehran, Iran
•The Exhibition of Paintings
by Female Artists from The
Society of Iranian Painters,
Bahaman Cultural Centre,
Tehran, Iran
2000
•Haft, Samar Art Gallery,
Tehran, Iran
•Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
1998
•Jamshidiyeh Art Gallery,
Tehran, Iran
1996
•Manifestation of Feeling,
Niavaran Creation Foundation,
Tehran, Iran
1995
•Export Promotion Center of
Iran, Permanet Fair Ground
Tehran, Iran
1994
•Jamshidiyeh Art Gallery,
Tehran, Iran
•Manifestation of Feeling,
Niavaran Creation
Foundation, Tehran, Iran
1993
•Azad Art University, Tehran,
Iran
Bita Vakili
Untitled, 2012
100 x 100 cm
Mixed media on canvas
the other Half of Iran
ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
List of exhibited works
Shirin aliabadi
city girl, 2010 - 2011
100 x 68 cm
Lambda Print
Edition 3/5
Shirin aliabadi
city girl, 2010 - 2011
100 x 68 cm
Lambda Print
Edition 3/5
Shirin aliabadi
city girl, 2010 - 2011
100 x 68 cm
Lambda Print
Edition 3/5
Shirin aliabadi
city girl, 2010 - 2011
100 x 68 cm
Lambda Print
Edition 3/5
Shirin aliabadi
city girl, 2010 - 2011
100 x 68 cm
Lambda Print
Edition 3/5
the other Half of Iran
ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
List of exhibited works
Shirin aliabadi
city girl, 2010 - 2011
100 x 68 cm
Lambda Print
Edition 3/5
Samira alikhanzadeh
#23 from the self-portrait series, 2011
140 x 100 cm
Digital print, mirror fragments and acrylic on board
Edition 2/3
Samira alikhanzadeh
peony from the family album series, 2011
120 x 170 cm
Digital print, mirror fragments and acrylic on board
Edition 2/3
Samira alikhanzadeh
#1 from in memory... series, 2012
100 x 150 cm
Digital print, mirror fragments and acrylic on board
Edition 2 /3
Samira alikhanzadeh
#10 from with the passage of time series, 2012
100 x 100 cm polyptych
(4 panels - 50 x 50 cm each)
Digital print, mirror fragments and acrylic on board
Edition 3/3
the other Half of Iran
ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
List of exhibited works
Mehraneh Atashi
bodyless, 2004
76,5 x 112,5 cm
Digital print
Edition of 5
Mehraneh Atashi
bodyless, 2004
76,5 x 112,5 cm
Digital print
Edition of 5
Mehraneh Atashi
Hanging gardens, 2010 - 2011
80 x 120 cm
C-print
Edition of 10
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
group 9 from convertible series, 2010
70 x 70 x 70 cm each panel (6)
Mirror and reverse glass painting on plaster and wood
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Triangle and square, 2010
100 x 160 cm
Mirror and reverse glass painting on plaster and wood
the other Half of Iran
ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
List of exhibited works
Golnaz Fathi
Untitled, 2011
200 x 150 cm
Mixed media on canvas
Golnaz Fathi
Untitled, 2010
65 x 200 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Golnaz Fathi
Untitled, 2012
120 x 120 cm
Mixed media on canvas
Golnaz Fathi
Untitled, 2012
45 x 180 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Shadi Ghadirian
Miss butterfly #9, 2011
100 x 150 cm
Digital-print
Edition 3/10
the other Half of Iran
ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
List of exhibited works
Shadi Ghadirian
like everyday #10, 2000
50 x 50 cm
C-Print
Edition 9/10
Shadi Ghadirian
like everyday #13, 2000
50 x 50 cm
C-Print
Edition 1/10
Shadi Ghadirian
like everyday #12, 2000
50 x 50 cm
C-Print
Edition 4/10
Shadi Ghadirian
like everyday #15, 2000
50 x 50 cm
C-Print
Edition 7/10
Shadi Ghadirian
be colourful #2, 2002
60 x 90 cm
C-print
Edition 10/10
the other Half of Iran
ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
List of exhibited works
Mahsa Karimizadeh
Yellow - 3, 2010
Diam 100 cm
Acrylic sheets, steel
Mahsa Karimizadeh
Untitled - curved space series, 2012
75 x 75 x 50 cm
Fiber glass
Mahsa Karimizadeh
Red - 2, 2012
Diam 120 cm
Acrylic sheets, steel
Bita Vakili
Untitled, 2012
100 x 100 cm
Mixed media on canvas
Bita Vakili
Untitled, 2012
170 x 170 cm
Mixed media on canvas
the other Half of Iran
ART BY iranian WOMEN
September 19th - December 20th 2012
List of exhibited works
Bita Vakili
Untitled, 2012
100 x 100 cm
Mixed media on canvas
Bita Vakili
Untitled, 2012
100 x 70 cm
Mixed media on canvas
Bita Vakili
Untitled, 2012
100 x 70 cm
Mixed media on canvas
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