Biography
Barbad Golshiri (b. 1982)
Education
| 2004 | BA Painting, School of Art and Architecture, Azad University, Tehran |
| 2000 | Pre-University in Art, Tehran |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2013 | Curriculum Mortis, Thomas Erben Gallery, NY |
| 2010 | Nothing is Left to Tell, Thomas Erben Gallery, NY And I Regurgitate and I Gulp it Down, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran Video Of The Month II (solo screening) Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany |
| 2009 | Exhibition; A Twenty-One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Four Minutes Unworsenable Aplastic, Göteborg Konstmuseum, Sweden (solo with Francis Bacon) |
| 2008 | Masturpiece(s) (curator Jeremy Owen Turner) Access Artist Run Center, Vancouver A Huge Amount of Enough, Azad Gallery, Tehran |
| 2007 | THE OTHER, Azad Gallery, Tehran |
| 2006 | Odyssey-i (curator Jeremy Owen Turner) Roland Quagmire's Virtual Space |
| 2002 | Light Art and Video Works of Art, Golestan Gallery, Tehran |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2013 | The Fold (curators Azar Mahmoudian and Michel Dewilde) CAB, Bruxelles, Belgium SubTehran: Subjective Truth from Iran (curator Sohrab Kashani) Center of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia In the Name of the Rose, Aaran Gallery, Tehran |
| 2012 | Lost and Found (curators Maud Lorau and Anissa Toutai) Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France L’inconnu de la scène (curator Fereshteh Daftari) Iranian Arts Now, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France Mise en Abyme (curator Sandra Skurvida) Sazmanab, Tehran, Iran, and Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France Elephant in The Dark (curator Amirali Ghasemi ) Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, India Contemporary Iranian Art, New Albion Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 2011 | Cura; The Rise and Fall of Aplasticism, 4th Moscow Biennial (special project, curated by Katya Krylova) Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia e-flux Pawnshop at Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland Regarding Iran; the apparent acquiescence of conceptual poetics (curators Shaheen Merali) Mumbai, India 15 Years Thomas Erben Gallery, Thomas Erben Gallery, NY My Super Hero, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran |
| 2010 | Iran diVerso: Black or White? (curator Nazila Noebashari) Verso Artecontemporanea, Turin Tehran: Virtual and Real (curator Nazila Noebashari) Aaran Gallery, Tehran The Other (curator Ali Ettehad) Mohsen Gallery, Tehran Postcards from Tehran (curator Nazila Noebashari) 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, California Language Vivid, Birmingham, UK Bimzar (Fearland), Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran Being Visible – Looking for Contemporary Ways of Signification (curator Aria Spinelli) CHAN Contemporary Art Association, Genova, Italy |
| 2009 | Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, Saatchi Gallery, London Looped and Layered: A Selection of Contemporary Art from Tehran, Thomas Erben Gallery, NY Iran: Inside Out (curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath) Chelsea Art Museum, NY Moment as Monument (curator Thomas Erben) Travancore Palace, New Delhi |
| 2008 | Medium Religion (curators Boris Groys and Peter Weibel) ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (traveled to Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland, 2009) Iran: New Voices (curator Vali Mahlouji) Barbican Center, London 21st Instants – Vidéo Festival, Marseille, France Camera Ardens; A Performance With The Blind and Those Who See (curator Pulpart) Bétonsalon, Paris Writing Art: Trends in Contemporary Iranian Art Since Saqqakhaneh (curator Simindokht Dehghani) Darlfunoon Gallery, Kuwait Breaking News: Contemporary Art from the Middle East (curator Daniela da Prato) Paris (catalog) The Question of Identity Vis-à-vis Exoticism in Contemporary Iranian Art (video screening at lecture by Dr. Hamid Keshmirshekan, faculty of Oriental Studies) The Khalili Research Centre (KRC), Oxford University, UK Géopolitique des Religions: Les Politiques de la Croyance (presentation at colloquium with Boris Groys, Claire Brunet, Maja Bajevic, Yael Bartana, Willie Doherty, Yuri Leiderman, Adam Vackar) Jeu de Paume National Gallery, Paris Tiny Conceptual (curator Helia Darabi) Azad Art Gallery, Tehran |
| 2007 | Soirée Court Métrage, Patronage Laïc, Aftab Association, Paris Projection des Vidéos d'Artistes Iraniens (curator Rokhshad Nourdeh) Centre Socioculturel Madeleine Rebérioux, Créteil, France All of My Mothers: A Group Exhibition in Support of Women Rights in Iran, Bahman Cultural Center, Tehran Within and Without: Contemporary Iranian Art (curator Neda Dana-Haeri) Nomoregrey Gallery, London Video Zoom (curator Hamid Severi) BizArt Gallery, Shanghai Silent Messages: Iranian Video Art (curators Helia Darabi and Susan Habib) XVIIth International Congress of Aesthetics: Aesthetics Bridging Cultures, METU Cultural and Convention Center, Ankara, Turkey The First Contemporary Art Biennial of Thessaloniki (curators Syrago Tsiara and Areti Leopoulou) Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece Bound By – Verbunden-Gebunden (curator Claudia- Maria-Luenig) Basement Gallery, Vienna TREIBSAND [Volume 01]: Analysing while Waiting (For Time to Pass): Contemporary Art from Tehran (concept: Susann Wintsch & Parastou Forouhar) Azad Art Gallery, Tehran Open House with Open Studios (curators Magnus af Petersens and Elin Strand Ruin) Iaspis, Stockholm |
| 2006 | Undercurrents06 (curator Dariush Moaven-Doust) Göteborg Konstmuseum, Sweden Iran.com: Iranian Art Today (curators Nicoletta Torcelli and Isabel Herda) Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany Ausserordentliche Zustände (curator Reto Pulfer) Zustand, Berlin The Fifth Gyumri International Biennial of Contemporary Art (curator Arpine Tokmajian) Gyumri, Armenia |
| 2005 | Portrait, Khak Gallery, Tehran The Barakat Trust Conference: 'Contemporary Iranian Art – Modernity and the Iranian Artist' (curator Hamid Keshmirshekan) Kellogg College, Oxford University, UK Immagini dall'Iran (curator Hamid Severi) Museo Comunale D'Arte Contemporanea, Bari, Italy Rassegna di Videoarte Iraniana (curator Hamid Severi) L’Associazione Culturale Leonardi V-Idea, Genoa, Italy Too Much Pollution to Demonstrate: Soft Guerrilla Tactics in Tehran's Contemporary Art Scene (curator Amiel Grumberg) Apex Art, NY The Fire Ceremony, videoconference (curator Graham Thumson) |
| 2004 | Video Zoom: Beams of Blue (curator Hamid Severi) Sala 1, Rome Video Zoom: Videoartisti Iraniani (curator Hamid Severi) Museo Trastevere, Rome Turning Points (curators Laleh Khorramian and Media Farzin) LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, NY For Bam – A Multi-Media Group Exhibition on Bam Earthquake, Warehouse near The Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran 3 Weeks with the Winners of the 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Fatima Gallery, Tehran Beams of Blue (curator Hamid Severi) Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi Untitled – Group Exhibition (curator Joseph Dadoun) Joseph Dadoun’s studio in Cité International des Arts, Paris |
| 2003 | The 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Tehran Contemporary Museum of Arts (winner of third prize) |
| 2002 | Hundred Works, Hundred Artists, Golestan Gallery, Tehran Untitled, Niavaran Culture Center, Tehran Untitled, Laleh Gallery, Tehran Critique of Cezanne’s Reason, Celebration of The International Women’s Day, Honar Cultural Center, Tehran |
| 2001 | The Fifth Group Exhibition of Contemporary Designers, Barg Gallery, Tehran Hundred Works, Hundred Artists, Golestan Gallery, Tehran Untitled, Shafagh Gallery, Tehran |
| 2000 | Untitled, Afarinesh Gallery, Andisheh Culture Center, Tehran |
Visiting Artist Lectures and Panels
| 2009 | Hallowed be Beams of Blue (lecture in connection with the exhibition Medium Religion) ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2008 | Lecture at the colloquium Géopolitique des Religions: Les Politiques de la Croyance (with Boris Groys, Claire Brunet, Maja Bajevic, Yael Bartana, Willie Doherty, Yuri Leiderman, Adam Vackar) Jeu de Paume National Gallery, Paris |
| 2007 | Pratiques Esthétiques Contemporaines: Productions, Enjeux et Publics (roundtable dialogue with Catherine David, Lina Saneh, Rabih Mroué, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Abdellah Karroum) Festival d’Automne, Paris Exoticism in Contemporary Art of Tehran, Center for Side-Effects, Tehran (lecture) The Carnivalesque and Subversion, Center for Side-Effects, Tehran (lecture) |
| 2002 | The Non-Objective World and Contemporary Design, University of Arts of Zahedan (lecture) |
Residencies and Awards
| 2006 | Residency, Konstepidemin, Göteborg, Sweden (IASPIS residency) |
| 2004 | Statements of Silence (co-author of one of the three best essays) The Symposium on Visual Arts Criticism of the 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Tehran Residency, Cité International des Arts, Paris |
| 2003 | Winner of the third prize in the 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Tehran Contemporary Museum of Arts |
Other Activities
| 2011 | Disturbing Public Opinion (curator) Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sweden |
| 2009 | For They Know What They Do Know, e-flux Journal, September (author) A New Year Epistolary, Tehranavenue, March (author) |
| 2008 | Eleven Plays by Samuel Beckett, Niloufar Publishing House, Tehran (author of English translation) |
| 2007 | Teacher of Plastic Arts in English, Elmi-Karbordi University, Tehran |
| 2006 | Distro's State of the Union Address: A Contingency Plan for Cyberspace, Azad Art Gallery / OzGate, Tehran (curator) Teacher of Plastic Arts in English, Elmi-Karbordi University (TAFE Courses) Tehran Pathology of Art Space [an Iranian case], a conversation between Barbad Golshiri, Hamed Yousefi, Shahab Fotouhi and Pages (interview) |
| 2005 | Samuel Beckett’s complete dramatic works in Persian, Karnameh Publishing House, Tehran (under press) (editor and translator) Dan Flavin (essays by Michael Govan and James Meyer) Digar Publishing House, Tehran (translator) Shargh, Version Magazine and Simia [a journal of drama] Iran and Romania (publication of socio-political articles on art and society) Teacher of Philosophy of Arts and Aesthetics (from Plato to present time) Artist’s Studio, Tehran Interview, Arte Channel (on 'Schizophrenia') April Artists with Socio-Political Points of View, Deutsche Welle Radio (on Portrait group exhibition, Khak Gallery, Tehran) June 30 |
| 2004 | A Critical Study on Kamal o’ddin Bihzad, (Bihzad, Sennemar of the Ruined Xovarnaq) Karnameh Publishing House, Tehran (author) Publication of critical essays and articles on art in various newspapers, sites and journals including: Herfé-Honarmand, Iranian Feminist Tribune, Tehran Interview, Mehr Weekly, no. 38 Interview, Radio Farda (on Contemporary British Sculptors in Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts) |
| 2003 | Publication of various critical essays on art in various newspapers and journals, Tehran The composition of the jury and the different points of view are the biennial’s strongest point (interview regarding the 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Tehran Contemporary Museum of Arts) Gozaresh, no. 7 A Sisyphus Addicted to Carrying His Stone (interview regarding the 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Tehran Contemporary Museum of Arts) Naghsh, no. 4 |
| 2002 | Plastic Arts Page, in Sedaye Edalat, Tehran (editor, publishing several critiques and reviews) Iran Art Supplement, publication of several critical essays on visual arts, Tehran 'If I could cry my blood…' Chehel Cheragh Weekly, no. 35 (interview on Light Art and Video Art works at Golestan Gallery) |
| 2001 | Hayat-e-No, publication of several reviews, Tehran (art columnist) |
| 2000 | Publication of articles in Aroos on women’s art and feminism, Tehran |
