Parviz Tanavoli

Immigrated to Vancouver in 1989
High School Diploma – Tehran School of Fine Arts 1956

Accademia di Belle Arti in Carrara, Italy 1956-57

Sculpture, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy 1958-59

Pioneer of modern sculpture in Iran

Several solo exhibitions in Iran and abroad, such as the Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, Retrospective, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Martin Gallery, Minneapolis, and Goethe Institute /Tehran

2006 -The British Museum, London, UK
2004 -Persian Garden, (installation ), Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

2002 -Iranian Contemporary Art, Christie’s, London- Picturing Iran Art, Society and Revolution,
Grey Art Gallery, NY University

2001-Iranian Contemporary Art, Barbican Center, London

2000-Continental Shift, Aachen, Maastricht, Heerlen and Liege- 7th International Shoebox Sculpture,
The University of Hawaii Art Gallery

1999-Atrium Public Gallery, Vancouver

1989-Contemporary Art from Islamic World, Barbican  Center, London

1988-Olympiad of Art, Seoul,

1977 -Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

1975 – Grey Art Gallery, New York University

1967 -Quadriennale of  Rome

1964 -Venice Biennale

1962-Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris-  Musee d’Ixelles, Brussels- Third International Biennale of Sculpture,
Carrara-Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1960-Venice Biennale

Collections:

British Museum, London

Dakar, Senegal, Outdoor Sculpture

Forum Ludwig, Aachen

Grey Art Gallery, New York University

Haft Chenar Park, Tehran

Hamline University, St. Paul, MN

Iowa University Art Museum

Jahan Nama Museum, Tehran

Mellat Park, Tehran

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran

Nelson Rockefeller Collection, New York

Nour Foundation, London

Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea

Sammlung Ludwig, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna

Saint John University, Collegeville, MN

Shiraz University

The City Theater, Tehran

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis