Archive for category: Selected Artists

Born in 1962 – Tehran

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Born in Tehran in 1956

Selected Group Exhibitions:

Born 1980, Kermansha, Iran

Education:

B.A in Painting, M.A in Painting- Art University

Solo Exhibition:

2001 Barg Art Gallery
2002 Elahe Art Gallery
2004 Elahe Art Gallery
2004 Golestan Art Gallery
2006 Golestan Art Gallery

Group Exhibition:

2000 Fereshteh Art Gallery
2001 Barg Art Gallery
2002 Honar Art Gallery
2002 Barg Art Gallery
2003 Barg Art Gallery
2004 Barg Art Gallery
2004 Sabk Art Gallery
2005 Dey Art Gallery
2005 Mah Art Gallery
2005 Golestan Art Gallery
2005 Aban Art Gallery
2006 Homa Art Gallery
2006 Mah Art Gallery
2006 Jelveh Art Gallery
2007 Silk Art Gallery
2007 Golestan Art Gallery
2007 Mah Art Gallery

Born: 1978, Berkeley, California, USA

Education:

Teaching and Community-Based Projects:

2009- 14 Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History, Visiting Faculty.
2013- –Cylindr.us at Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA.
2010– Transforming Fictions at deYoung Museum in conjunction with Kearny Street Workshop.
2007-08 University of California at Berkeley, Department of Art Practice, Visiting Lecturer.
2007-  Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History, Visiting Faculty.
2006– Asia Society Museum, New York, NY, Workshop with NY public school teachers.
2006– Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, “AsiaAlive” Visiting Artist.
2006– Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History, Instructor.
2003– Events and Public Relations Coordinator, Celebrating Culture and Community, San Pablo, CA.
2003– Coronado YMCA, Richmond, CA, Art workshop with K-3 graders, Art Instructor.
2002– Grant Elementary School, Richmond, CA, Art workshop with K-3 graders, Art Instructor.
1998-99 Zeum Art and Technology Center, San Francisco, Program Assistant and Team Leader for teen workshops.

Solo Exhibitions:
2014– VOLTA NY, represented by Charlie James Gallery, New York, NY.
2013 –Cylindr.us, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA.
2012– Absent Arrival, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.
2012– Elsewhen, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE.
2010 –Indelible Whispers of the Sun, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2010 –re-emergence, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.
2009–1388, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE.
2009–A Breath of Air, Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California Berkeley, CA.
2008 –Epic Verse,” Community School of Music and Arts / Finn Center, Mountain View, CA.
2007–Ala Ebtekar,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.
2006 –Emergence: Elements,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.
2006 –Emergence,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA.
2004 –Elemental,” Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Two Person Exhibitions:
2009 –Hampah, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2008 –Descriptive Verse, FIFTY24SF Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2007 –Under The Indigo Dome,” The Third Line, Dubai, UAE.
2005 –Ala Ebtekar & Jeong-Im Yi, Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2002 –In The Name of God: Works on Paper,” Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA.
Group Exhibitions:
2014 –Now Read This, Boise State University Arts Gallery, Boise, ID.
2014 –Equations of Sight-Similarity ,On Stellar Rays, New York, NY.
2014 –The Vastness is Bearable, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
2013–Frieze London, represented by The Third Line, Regent’s Park, London, UK.
2013 –Bibliophilia, The Palo Alto Art Center, CA.
2013 –The Beginning of Thinking is Geometric, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah.
2013 –Migrating Identities, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2013– Proximities // What Time Is It There? Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA.
2013 –Faux Real” Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA.
2013 –Perpetuation of Myth”, Los Gatos Art Museum, Los Gatos, CA.
2012 –We Could Be Heroes: The Mythology of Monsters and Heroes in Contemporary Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
2012– Frieze Art Fair NY, representing gallery The Third Line
2012 –Post-Pop, Mahe Mehr Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2011 –The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989,” ZKM – Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2011 –West End? Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel.
2011 –Snail Fever, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE.
2011 –My Super Hero: New Contemporary Art from Iran, Aaran Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2011– My Super Hero: New Contemporary Art from Iran, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2011– Nothing To Say, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2011 –Postcards from Tehran, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA.
2010– Iran Inside Out, DIFC, Dubai, UAE.
2010– Everyone is Welcome: The Art of K.O.S., NYCAMS Gallery, New York, NY.
2010– Inaugural Group Show Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2009 Out of Bounds: Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA.
2009–Routes II, Waterhouse & Dodd, London, UK.
2009– Iran Inside Out, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL.
2009 –Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY.
2009– Balla-Drama, Paradise Row, London, England.
2009–Summer 7, The Third Line, Doha, UAE.
2009 –SELSELEH/ZELZELEH: Movers & Shakers in Contemporary Iranian Art, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York,  NY.
2009–San Francisco Art Institute Faculty & Alumni: A Thin Slice, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA.
2009–Beautiful / Decay: A-Z,  Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2009–Faces and Letters: Through the Eyes of Collectors in Qatar, Gallery VCUQatar, Doha, Qatar.
200– Conference of the Birds, Flawless Gallery, London, UK.
2008–Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship, The San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA.
2008–Bay Area Now 5, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2008–Summer Solos 2008,” Pro Arts, Oakland, CA.
2008–One way or Another: Asian American Art Now, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii.
2008 –Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted 1907-2007, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skarhamn, Sweden.
2008–East of the West Som Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2008–The Alternative Philosophy,” Leonard Street Gallery, London, UK.
2008–One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
2008–Make The Art You Need: The UC Berkeley Department of Art Faculty Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California Berkeley, CA.
2007–The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA.
2007–One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.
2007–Feel the Difference: Cultural Branding Remix, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA.
2007–One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX.
2007–GRAPHIC: New Bay Area Drawing, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA.
2006–California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
2006–California Calligraphy Summit: Cali/Graffi, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
2006–10 Curatorial Perspectives, Haven Arts, Bronx, NY.
2006–One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, Asia Society Museum, New York, NY.
2006–Asia Alive, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA.
2006–MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery
2005–Do’Ka, La Condition Publique, Roubaix, France.
2005–Paper Cuts (again),  Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA.
2005–The Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts Exhibition, SF Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005–re Present,” Oliver Art Center, CCA, Oakland, CA.
2005–Cross Connections: of Past and Present, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2004–A Look Forward and Back: Gallery 16’s Ten Year Anniversary, Gallery 16, San Francisco CA.
2004–The Wild Bunch 2, THE ANNEX, New York, NY.
2004–State of the Nation, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2004–REBUS, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.
2003–Global Elegies: Art and Ofrendas for the Dead,” Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA.
2003–Pachanga! Galeria de la Raza , San Francisco, CA.
2003–War of the Worlds, in collaboration with Tim Rollins + K.O.S., White Box, New York, NY.
2003 –Purple with Love’s Wound, in collaboration with Tim Rollins + K.O.S., University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA.
2003 –The Wild Bunch, THE ANNEX, New York, NY.
2003 –Mark: Contemporary Drawings, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA.
2003–No War, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2002–Emerging Bay Area Artists, San Francisco Design Center, San Francisco, CA.
2001–Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA.
2001–War: What is it Good For? Asian Resource Center Gallery, Oakland, CA.
2000–In collaboration with Tim Rollins + K.O.S. The De Young Memorial Art Museum, San Francisco, CA.
2000–Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA.
2000–Four Artists, Blake Street Studio, Berkeley, CA.
2000–Artists’ Books, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1998–In collaboration with Tim Rollins + K.O.S., ZEUM, San Francisco, CA.
1998–In collaboration with Tim Rollins + K.O.S., Berkeley Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley.
1998–In collaboration with Tim Rollins + K.O.S., Gallery Paule Anglim , San Francisco, CA.