Biography

Newsha Tavakolian (b. 1981, Tehran, Iran)
The artist lives and works in Tehran, Iran.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016I Know Why The Rebel Sings, Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
2015Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album, Chapelle des Beaux-arts de Paris, France
Blank Pages, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Blank Pages, East Wing Gallery, Dubai, UAE
 
2013
 
Look, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Look, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 
2012Listen, Otto Gallery, Florence, Italy
Listen, Art Dubai, Aaran Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Listen, The Empty Quarter Fine Art Gallery, Women on the Verge, Dubai, UAE
 
2011Listen, La Caja Blanca Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Listen, Jakob Cultural Church, Oslo, Norway
Listen, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Listen, The Empty Quarter Fine Art Gallery in Menasart Fair, Beirut, Lebanon
Listen, Biennial Poznan, Poland
Listen, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, UAE
 
2010
 
I can explain everything (with Ala Dehghan) Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2009
 
Chador and Chanel, Side Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Newsha Tavakolian, Centre Culturel Franco Allemand, Karlsruhe, Germany
 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016Islamic Art Now, Part 2: Contemporary Art of the Middle East, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
 
201556th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
 
2014Burnt Generation, Somerset House, London
 
2013She Who Tells a Story, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Listen & The Day I Became a Woman, LACMA, Los Angeles
She Who Tells a Story,
Bildmuseet Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, Umeå, Sweden
Light from the Middle East, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Maria Series, Mark Hachem Gallery, Paris France
 
2012Listen, Paris Photo, Paris, France
The Other Resurrection, Mark Hachem Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Maria Series, III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
Hajj, Journey of a Lifetime, British Museum, London, England
May Your Wish Come True, Gonzalez Hulshof Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Somehow, Somewhat in the Middle of Things, LhGWR Gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands
 
2011My Super Hero, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Good City For Dreamers, Nicolas Silin Gallery, Paris, France
Black or White, Gallery Verso, Turin, Italy
The Day I Became A Woman, Nicolas Silin Gallery, Paris, France
 
2010Jungle, Shirin Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Black or White, Verso Gallery, Turin, Italy
No More Bad Girls? Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
 
2009Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
 
2008EVE Women Photographers Collective, Angkor Photographic Festival, Cambodia
Made in Tehran: 6 Frauen-Blicke, Cicero Gallery, Berlin, Germany
 
2007EVE Women Photographers Collective, Visa pour L’image Perpignan, France
 
2006EVE Women Photographers Collective, Gijon International Festival of Photojournalism, Gijon, Spain
 
2005Mothers of Martyrs, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 
2002Woman of Iran, Asar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 
1999News, Khoneh Gallery, Tehran, Iran

 

Publications

2015Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album, Kehrer Verlag
 
2013She Who Tells A Story- Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, MFA Publications
 
2012
 
The Fifth Pillar, Hajj Pilgrimage, Newsha Tavakolian, Gilgamesh Publishing House
 
2010A History of Women Photographers, Naomi Rosenblum, Abbeville Press
 
2009Iranian Photography Now, Rose Issa, Hatje Cantz Verlag
 
2008Transit Tehran: Young Iran and its Inspirations, Malu Halasa y Maziar Bahari, Garnet Publishing
 

Awards

2016Pictures of the Year International Award – First Place Feature Story, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, USA
 
2015Principal Prince Claus Award, Prince Claus Fund, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
2014
 
Fifth Laureate of the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award
2009
 
Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize, (finalist) United Kingdom
 
2007Inge Morath Award, (finalist) Magnum PhotoAgency, New York, USA
 
2006Joop Swart Masterclass, World Press Photo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Still Photography Award from the All Roads Film Project, National Geographic, Washington DC, USA
 
2003Picture of the Year International Competition, Magazine Feature Category (finalist) National Press Photographers Association and Missouri School of Journalism. USA
 

Collections

 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

 

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