Biography

Barbad Golshiri (b. 1982)

Education

2004
 
BA Painting, School of Art and Architecture, Azad University, Tehran
2000Pre-University in Art, Tehran
 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013Curriculum Mortis, Thomas Erben Gallery, NY
 
2010Nothing 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
 
2009Exhibition; A Twenty-One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Four Minutes Unworsenable Aplastic, Göteborg Konstmuseum, Sweden (solo with Francis Bacon)
 
2008Masturpiece(s) (curator Jeremy Owen Turner) Access Artist Run Center, Vancouver
A Huge Amount of Enough, Azad Gallery, Tehran
 
2007THE OTHER, Azad Gallery, Tehran
 
2006Odyssey-i (curator Jeremy Owen Turner) Roland Quagmire's Virtual Space
 
2002Light Art and Video Works of Art, Golestan Gallery, Tehran
 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013The 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
 
2012Lost 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
 
2011Cura; 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
 
2010Iran 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
 
2009Unveiled: 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
 
2008Medium 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
 
2007Soirée 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
 
2006Undercurrents06 (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
 
2005Portrait, 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)
 
2004Video 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
 
2003The 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Tehran Contemporary Museum of Arts (winner of  third prize)
 
2002Hundred 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
 
2001The Fifth Group Exhibition of Contemporary Designers, Barg Gallery, Tehran
Hundred Works, Hundred Artists, Golestan Gallery, Tehran
Untitled, Shafagh Gallery, Tehran
 
2000Untitled, Afarinesh Gallery, Andisheh Culture Center, Tehran
 

Visiting Artist Lectures and Panels

2009Hallowed be Beams of Blue (lecture in connection with the exhibition Medium Religion) ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
2008Lecture 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
 
2007Pratiques 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)
 
2002The Non-Objective World and Contemporary Design, University of Arts of Zahedan (lecture)
 

Residencies and Awards

2006Residency, Konstepidemin, Göteborg, Sweden (IASPIS residency)
 
2004Statements 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
 
2003Winner of the third prize in the 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Tehran Contemporary Museum of Arts
 

Other Activities

2011Disturbing Public Opinion (curator) Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sweden
 
2009For They Know What They Do Know, e-flux Journal, September (author)
A New Year Epistolary, Tehranavenue, March (author)
 
2008Eleven Plays by Samuel Beckett, Niloufar Publishing House, Tehran (author of English translation)
 
2007Teacher of Plastic Arts in English, Elmi-Karbordi University, Tehran
 
2006Distro'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)
 
2005Samuel 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
 
2004A 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)
 
2003Publication 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
 
2002Plastic 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)
 
2001Hayat-e-No, publication of several reviews, Tehran (art columnist)
 
2000Publication of articles in Aroos on women’s art and feminism, Tehran
 

 

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