Maryam Zandi

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Born on 10 January 1947 in Gorgan, Iran

She is a graduate of Tehran University’s School of Law and Political Science.

Publications:

Turkomans and Their Habitat, a protfolio.Tehran 1983
Stories from Iran, A chicago Anthology 1921-1991. Heshmat Moayyad (Ed.).
Mage Publishers, Washington D.C., 1991.
Portraits (1), a Portfolio of Iranian Literati.Tehran 1993.
Portraits (2), a Portfolio of Iranian Artists.Tehran 1995.
Portraits (3), a Portfolio of Iranian Film and Theatre Celebrities. Tehran 1997.
Akkashi (PhotoPaints), Tehran 2001.
Calendars and Postcards in various themes

Exhibitions:

1973 “Black and White” Qandriz Gallery, Theran solo
1974 “Asian Games“, Colour Qandriz Gallery, Theran  solo
1976 “Black and White” Pentax Gallery, Londoon group
1978 “Woman in Step with the Revolution“
Ministry of Labour and Bagh-e Ferdows, Theran solo
1978 “The Revolution: Eye-witness Reports” School of Fine Arts, Theran University, Tehran group
1979 “Form a Tradition in Turkoman-Sahra” Colour, Negarestan, Museum, Theran solo
1981 “Children, Faith, Liberation” An international exhibition,Museum of Contemporary Art, Theran group
1989 “Portraits from the Iranian Literary Scene” Private showing, Theran solo
1990 “Portraiture” Museum of Contemporary Art, Theran group
1991 “Portraits from the Iranian Literary Scene“
1991 “The IV Annual Exhibiton of Photographs” Museum of Contemporary Art, Theran solo
1992 “Portraits from the Iranian Literary Scene” George Washington Univerrity, Washington D.C. solo
1993 “Portraits of Contemporary Iranian Artists” Barg Art Galler, Tehran solo
1993 “L’Iran, a visage decouvert” Galerie in – Extremis, Saint Etienne, France group
1995 “Photograph – Painting” With E. Haghighi Golestan Gallery, Tehran solo
1998 “The Selected Portraits” Golestan Gallery, Tehran solo
1998 “Nature”  7 Samar Gallery, Tehran solo
2002 “Colour and Glass” (The glass works) Golestan Gallery, Tehran   solo
2003 “Colour and Glass” (The glass works) Golestan Gallery, Tehran   solo

Mohsen Rastani

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Born in 1958, Khoramshahr Iran
Education:
BA in photography Faculty of Fine Arts, Tehran University, 1987

Artistic Activities:

Photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Lecturer, Teacher, Critic and essayist
Photography Editor of Tasvir Art Magazine
Photography expert, Shilat Company, Iran
Photography editor of Sobh Iran Newspaper
Exhibitions:
2011 Iran’s Cultural Week, Tajikestan
2011 New Year Visual Art Festival
2009 165 Years of Iranian Photography, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
2005 10th Biennial Photo Exhibition of Iran, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2000 Regards Persans, Espace Electra, Paris

Awards:
Special award for black and white photographs, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts
Gold Medal of the International creative photography festival, England

Gohar Dashti

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Born in 1979, Ahvwaz, Iran

Education:

M.A in Photography from the Fine Art University of Tehran.

Artistic Activities:

Teacher at the Art University of Tehran

Member of Iranshahr Photography Association

Solo Exhibitions:

2012 “Volcano”, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2011 “Slow Decay”, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2010 “Me, She and the others”, Centre d’art Passerelle, Brest, France

Group Exhibitions:

2013 “All You Need Is LOVE”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2013 “She Who Tells a Story; Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

2013 “The Eye is a Lonely Hunter-Images of Humankind, A selection from the 4th Fotofestival”, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway

2012 “History is mine!”, Le Printemps de Septembre Festival, Toulouse, France

2012 “Festival Images”, Vevey, Switzerland

2012 “Ce n’est pas du sang, c’est du rouge”, White Project Gallery, Paris, France

2012 “The Eye is a Lonely Hunter-Images of Humankind, A selection from the 4th Fotofestival”, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany

2012 “The Elephant in the Dark”, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India

2011″Pulso Iraniano”, Oi Futuro Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2011 4th Fotofestival “The Eye is a Lonely Hunter-Images of Humankind”, Zephyr der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany

2011 “Landscape, Revolution, People”, Queen Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2011 “Inauguration”, White Project Gallery, Paris, France

2011 “Staging Identity”, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

2010 “Freitag und Robinson”, Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum, Berlin, Germany

2010 “Southern”, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2009 “Biennale des images du monde”, photoquai ,Musee du quai branly, Paris, France

2008 Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC, USA

2008 “The inward eye”, Contemporary art museum, Tehran, Iran

2007 “Made in Teheran”, Cicero Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2006 “Art10th International Photo Biennale”, Saba Cultural and Artistic Institute, Tehran, Iran

2006 Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Awards:

2011 Visiting Arts (1mile² Project), Bradford / London, England

2009-2011 DAAD award, Berlin, Germany

2008 International Arts & Artists (Art Bridge), Washington DC, USA

 

Ramin Haerizadeh

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Born in 1975, Tehran, iran

Works and lives in Tehran

1994 Education Economics, University of Tehran

1994 Photography study under the direction of Mr. Massoud Massoumi

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2009 ‘Unveiled: New Art from the Middle-East’, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

2008 ‘Today’s Woman’, solo exhibition, B21 Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2008 ‘Men of Allah’, solo exhibition, Galeri Artist, Istanbul, Turkey

2007 ‘Wonders of Nature’, solo exhibition, B21 Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2007 ‘Within and Without’, NoMoreGrey Gallery, London, England

2007 ‘Melancholy of the Everyday’, solo exhibition, Studio 1.1, London, UK

2006 ‘Iran.com, Iranian art today’, Museum fur Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany

2005 ‘Beyond Black’, Group exhibition, The Third Line gallery, Dubai, UAE

2004 ‘Turning points: Seven Iranian Artists’, group exhibition, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NY, USA

2004 ‘The Fragmented Mirror’, group exhibition Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain

2004 ‘Persian Gardens’, video installation, group exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2004 ‘Paris Photo’, group exhibition, Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France

2003 ‘Water, The First Element’, group exhibition, National Art Gallery, Malaysia

2003 ‘Lucky Charms’, group exhibition, Gallery Golestan, Tehran, Iran

2003 Solo exhibition, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2002 Cameraman for the short film Hoviat and for the TV program Iran News Channel

2002 Participated in the cinematographic activities of the weekly Cinema Djahan Magazine

 

Rana Javadi

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Born: 1944

 

Artistic Activities:

1989 Director of Photo and Pictorial Studies at the Cultural Research Bureau, Tehran

Member of the editorial board of Aksnaneh (a quarterly journal of photography)

1997–1999 Founding member of Akskhaneh Shahr, the first museum of photography in Iran.

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2008 Solo show at Golestan gallery, Tehran, Iran

Group Exhibitions:

2010 “Recent Self Portrait”, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2010 Paris-Photo, Carousel Du Louvre, Paris, France

2009 “165 years of Iranian photography”, Quai Branly museum, paris, France

2008 “Lion Under the Rainbow, Art from Tehran” group exhibition, parallel plan of Art Athens.

 

Bahman Jalali

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Born 1944, Tehran

Death: 2010, Tehran, Iran

BA    Economics, Shaheed Beheshti University (formerly The National University of Iran)

Member of the Royal Society of Photographers, England

Photography instructor in different universities and schools in Iran for more than 25 years

Member of the editorial board for Aksnameh; a bi-monthly journal of photography in Tehran

Co-founder, a consultant to the board of trustees and a curator of old photos for Akskhaneh Shahr; the first Museum of photography created in Iran in 1997

Granted a very special homage for his forty years of career in photography by the Fundacio Antoni Tapies in Barcelona with a special solo exhibition curated by Catherine David from September to December 2007

More than 50 solo and group exhibitions in Iran, France, Hungary, Czech Republic, Finland and Spain, such as:

Exhibition in the British Museum of London, Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East in 2006

Ey Iran! Recent contemporary photography from Iran, Australia 2006

Persian Silver touring exhibition, 2004 – 2008

Lion under the Rainbow, Contemporary Art from Tehran, Athens, Greece 2008

Shahryar Tavakoli

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Born in 1969 Tehran

BA in Photography from “Art University”/1997

MA in Photography from “Art University”/1997

Publisher & Editor in Chief of Art Quarterly Magazine:

“Herfeh: Honarmand”(Profession :Artist) / (2002-06)

Solo Exhibition:

“Haft Samar ” Gallery /1994
“Haft Samar ” Gallery /1997
“Haft Samar ” Gallery /1999
“Haft Samar ” Gallery /2001
“Haft Samar ” Gallery /2002
“Haft Samar ” Gallery /2005

Group Exhibition:

“Persion Vision”/ Isfahan-Iran-2002
“Persion Silver “/ Mineasota -USA-2004

Book:

“If You Don’t See Me “/ Nazar pub-2005

Newsha Tavakolian

/in ,

1981, Tehran, Iran

Exhibitions:

2012 Maria serie, III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art , Moscow.
2012 Maria serie ,Mark Hachem Gallery- Beirut, 6th of July, 6 -10 pm ,The Other Resurrection show , Beirut , Lebanon.
2012 MAY YOUR WISH COME TRUE…, GONZALEZ HULSHOF Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2012 “Listen” sarà presentata alla galleria “OTTO Luogo dell’arte” Florence, Italy.
2012 ‘Somehow, somewhat in the middle of things’, LhGWR gallery, The Netherlands.
2012 Art Dubai, Aaran gallery.
2012 The Empty Quarter Fine Art gallery, Women on the Verge, Dubai.
2012 British Museum- Hajj: Journey to the hearth of Islam, London, United Kingdom.
2011 MARGINS at 7 Photo Biennial in Poznan, Poland.
2011 lacajablanca Gallery, Solo Show and Conference, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
2011 Menasart Fair with Gallery The Empty Quarter Fine art photography, Beirut, Lebanon.
2011 The Third Line Gallery, Snail Fever, Dubai.
2011 Morono Kiang Gallery, My Super Hero, LA, USA.
2011 Nicolas Silin Gallery , Good City For Dreamers, Paris, France.
2011 Jakob cultural church, Solo Exhibition “Listen” Oslo, Norway.
2011 Aaran gallery, Tehran, solo exhibition ‘Listen’, Iran.
2010, Shirin Gallery,Tehran, group exhibition ‘Jungle’, Iran.
2010, Art Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
2010, Gallery Verso, Turin, group exhibition, ‘Black or White’, Italy.
2010, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, group exhibition, ‘No more bad girls?’, Austria .
2010 Thomas Erben gallery New York, duo exhibition, ‘Newsha Tavakolian’ United States.
2009, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, group exhibition ‘Iran Inside Out’, United States.
2009 Side gallery in Newcastle, Solo Exhibition,‘Chador and Chanel’, United Kingdom.
2009 Centre Culturel Franco Allemand, Karlsruhe, solo exhibition ‘Newsha Tavakolian’, Germany.
2008, EVE women photographers collective Angkor Photography Festival, Cambodia.
2008, Cicero Galerie Berlin, group exhibition, ‘Made in Tehran: 6 ‘, Germany.
2007, EVE women photographers collective slideshow at Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France.
2006, EVE women photographers collective Gijón International Festival of Photojournalism, Spain.
2005, Silk road gallery, Tehran, group exhibition, Iran.Awards:
2009, Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize Finalist, United Kingdom.
2007, Inge Morath award, finalist, Magnum PhotoAgency, New York, United States.
2006, Still photography award from the All Roads Film Project, National Geographic, Washington, D.C., United States.
2006 Joop Swart Masterclass , World Press Photo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003, Runner-up in Picture of the Year International Competition, magazine feature category, National Press Photographers Association and Missouri School of Journalism, 2003, United StatesBooks:
2012, “ Fifth Pillar” hajj pilgrimage, By Newsha Tavakolian, Published by Gilgamesh publishing house.

2010, ‘A History of Women Photographers: by Naomi Rosenblum, Abbeville Press.

2009, Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations, by Malu Halasa and Maziar Bahari, Garnet Publishing.

2008, ‘Iranian photography Now’, by Rose Issa, Hatje Cantz Verlag.

Mitra Tabrizian

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Born in Tehran Iran

Selected Exhibitions:

2009

Solo exhibition, Albion gallery, London (Jan- Feb.)
Theatre of the Real, Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium (June-Sept.)
Translation/Tarjoma, Queens Museum of Art, N.Y. (May –Sept.)
The End: Analyzing Art in Troubled Times, Andy Warhol Museum N.Y. (Feb-may)

2008

Solo exhibition Tate Britain, London (June- August)
Solo exhibition, Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin (June- Sept.
‘Street and Studio: An Urban History of Photography’, Tate Modern, London
(May- August) traveling to Museum of Folkwang (Oct 08- Jan 09)
Sotheby’s, London (Oct.)

2007

C International Photo, Phillips de Pury, N.Y. (Sept.)
Wall house project (on the work of an American architect John Hejduk),
Noorderlicht, gallery, Holland and Wall House Foundation (June)
FotoArtFestival, Poland (Oct.)
2006
Solo exhibition, Moderna Mussset (Museum of Modern art) Stockholm, Sweden
10th Venice Biennale of architecture, Italian Pavilion Giardini di Castello, Italy
‘Voodoo Macbeth: a tribute to the work of Orson Welles’, De la Warr Pavilion,
Contemporary Iranian photography, The House of Artists, Tehran Iran
2005
‘Safe: an exhibition of contemporary art’, Karlskrona Art Gallery & Blekinge
Museum, Sweden (catalogue – poster)
‘In the Shadow of Fallen Heroes’, Central Asian Biennale in Kyrgyzstan (catalogue)
2004
Solo Exhibition, BBK, Bilbao, Spain – (catalogue)
Solo exhibition , Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Far Near Distance – `New Positions of Contemporary Iranian Artist ’, the House of World Cultures Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
‘Veil’, The Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (catalogue )
‘Lumo 04 triennal of Contemporary Photography’, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Finland (catalogue –poster- T shirt)
2003
Solo exhibition, Museum of Folkwang, Germany (catalogue)
‘Aletheia: The Real of concealment’, Art Museum, Goteborg, Sweden (catalogue – poster)
‘Veil’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK (touring in UK)
2001

‘Inhabiting’, Gallery Lelong , NY. USA

1999

‘London: Post-Colonial City’, Architectural Association, London, UK
1998

Minimal Utopia (Solo exhibition), Camera Austria Gallery, Graz, Austria (poster)

1996

‘Gender- Beyond Memory’, Metropolitan Museum of Photography’, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
‘Family, Nation, Tribe, Community Shift’, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
1995

‘The Outburst of Signs: Art at the Interfaces of Gender & Race’, Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrabe, Munich, Germany (catalogue)

1994

‘Le Shuttle’, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
‘Public Domain’, Art Centre Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain (catalogue)
‘Solo exhibition’, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (touring in Finland)

Morteza Momayez

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Born in 1935, Tehran, Iran

Death: 2005, Tehran. Iran

SCOPE: Poster, Illustration, Sign, Publication design, Advertising , Typography, Packaging

QUALIFICATION: Bachelor of art at the Faculty of Fine Arts in University of Tehran /1964.

Post Graduated from Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifes Paris / 1968?

POSITIONS: Lecturer in Plastic Art Dept. at University of Tehran from / 1969- onward.

Member of AGI / 1977 -onward.

Chairman of Iranian Graphic Designers Society (IGDS) 1998

Chairman of Iranian Graphic Design Biennal-Tehran 1999?

Member of Art Academy of Iran

Author

What is Graphic Design? / 1973

Graphic Art in Iran 1974

Signs (artist’s designs) / 1983

Plakate/Posters (artist’s designs) / 1984

Illustration & Imagination (artist’s designs) / 1989

Book Cover Design ( 500 artist’s designs) / 2000

and also a number of articles in several publications ( Iran and abroad)

Professional practice

Illustration & design for several Iranianl newspaper and magazines / 1952-58.

Designer, Art director / Pars Studio / 1958-63

Designer, Art director / Seven Up Corporation-Iran / 1963-66

Designer, Art director / Following art and cultural publications:Ketab-e-Hafteh, Roudaki,

Farhang-O-Zendegi, Cinema, Kelk, Goft-O-gou, Payam Emrooz, Zaman, Sharif Creative

director & designer / Tehran International Film Festival / 1971-73

Occasional practice

Three short animation films / 1971-73

Several light designs, Stage design and art direction projects for some plays,
Interior Design.

Exhibitions:

Individual exhibition:
Iran and Germany

Group exhibition:

AGI (Alliance Graphique International)

Berlin, Essen (Germany)

Bologna (Italy)

Brno (Czech Republic)

Cannes Festival, Chaumont, Paris, Echirolles (France)

Chicago, Colorado (USA)

Lahti (Finland)

Tehran (Iran)

Toyama (Japan)

Warsawa, Krakowie (Poland)