1. Experimental Artist based in Iran, 2011-2015 .
Artist based in Dubai, UAE 2007-2001
Artist based in Los Angeles CA, 1992-2007
Artist based in Stuttgart, Germany 1984-1992
Artist based in Florence, Italy 1983
Born heart of Tehran, 1963.
First migrated in 1973 to Munich, Germany.
Second migratory path 1983-2011.
My first introduction to art and words was at the age of three. My grandpa Akbar gave me my first
charcoal, az I drew my 1st line on hiz white hallway wallz. Fatemeh Chavmeh gave me my 1st
canvas. Jon Wagner, gave me the key method to words that is since he has been my mentor.
Valencia, CA 1992, Cal Art’s
My art represents life experiences, migration and the idea of Home, Birth of A Better Global
Future Sustainable Societies, The imposable, The Possible, True The Art’s.
Solo Exhibitions
2016 “Ghaf ,@VeryFar”- Solo Exhibition, NY. YK.
2015 "URGENCY 30 BIRDS"- Solo Exhibition, NY.NY.
2011 I Command: Michaelangelo Series, Cuadro Fine Arts Gallery, DIFC, Dubai
2009 Silent Voices, Carbon12, Dubai, UAE
2008 27 Years of Migration, Tashkeel Gallery, Dubai
Soffreh, Meaning Tablecloth, Jam Jar Gallery, Dubai
Soffreh, Meaning Tablecloth, Basement Gallery, Dubai
Barbie’s Relocated, Focus Art Gallery, Dubai
Migratory Patterns, Hoor Gallery, Tehran
2007 Metaoracle, paintings, Gallery One, Beyond Persia, San Francisco, CA
2006 Soffreh, slide installation, IMAN, Los Angeles
Passage, paintings, Seyhoun Gallery, Los Angeles
Metamorphosis, paintings, Athens Art Space, Athens, Greece
2005 No Stopping In Searching, paintings, Polytropon Gallery, Kalamata, Greece
How A House Became Home & Home A Temple, paintings, Los Angeles
2003 Soffreh, food installation, Inmo Gallery, Los Angeles
Soffreh, permanent installation, Watt Plaza, Los Angeles
2002 Chadoor Study, paintings & installations, SheatStudio, Los Angeles
1999 Say Ya Ali Then Exit On Exile, paintings, Khane-ye Honarmandan-e, Iran
1996 From Virtual To Reality, installation, Main Gallery, Cal Arts, Valencia
Soffreh: Meaning Tablecloth, installation, Gallery D301, Cal Arts, Valencia
1995 Removal & Regrowth, open studio, Cal Arts, Valencia
1994 Walls Veils & Words, Gallery D2, Cal Arts, Valencia
1992 Families In Frames, Gallery D3, Cal Arts, Valencia, CA
1991 Wounded Wishes & Wind, paintings, Art Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands
1990 I Formed My Arch, paintings, Gallery Schilling, Schorndorf, Germany
Selected Group Exhibition
2015 Sharjah Biennial 12, “Proposing the Impossible, Experimental Application/Exhibition.
Testing clouds: “What does a curatorial title proposed “The Past, The Future, The
Possible”, weigh’s in Giga Bite?” Pixel by Pixel, I planted every seed for the future to
arrive. Testing iCloud: “Pixels of Identity, Race, Gender, Global border, or order? “In The
Name of Fatemeh, Contemporary Art Platform” – Sharjah Biennial12, Sharjah | Applied :
“The Impossible Proposal Application”, on December 2014 – Applicant was denied on
January 2015 – In Short: “Due to lack of professionalism.”

2. 2009 Simorgh; To Act Locally Is To Think Globally, Green Visions, Art Oasis, UAE
Sharjah Biennial 2009, Soffreh, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah Biennial 2009, Sharjah
Walls, Veils and Voices, Art Dubai, Jam Jar gallery, Dubai
2008 START annual exhibition, Children With Special Needs, Green Art Gallery, Dubai
No Flag, Just Love, Conventions and Attitudes, a projected exhibition, Group Trade and
Row, New York, NY, and Los Angeles
Barbie’s Relocated, Slick Art Fair, Paris, France
Alef Ba, Meaning Alphabet, XVA Gallery, Creek Art Fair, Dubai
Vibrations Within, Tashkeel Gallery, Dubai
Women of My Lands, Jam Jar Gallery, Dubai Art Fair
Poetics Painted, Contemporary Museum of Art, MOCA Tehran, Eighth Biennale of
Iranian Painters, Tehran
Women of My Lands, Be Creative, Dubai Ladies Club, Dubai
In The Streets of Liberty, Gallery One, San Francisco
2007 Work and Survivor, Museum of Contemporary Art at the Geffen Contemporary,
audio installation (Suzanne Lacy project), Los Angeles
In the Hanging Garden, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Fragments and Colors, Regent Gallery, Los Angeles
From Kabba to N.Y, Red Dot Gallery, Los Angeles
2006 Unusual, Seyhoun Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 Seven Sins, Pacific Arts Center, Santa Monica
2004 Apple, paintings & installation, Merging One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Trilingual Prayer, video installation, 18th street Arts Complex, Santa Monica
Soffreh, video installation, Freewaves, Los Angeles
2003 Chadoor, performance art, Crossroads, Los Angeles
2002 Chadoor, performance, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
2001 Overflowing, AlefBa meaning Alphabet, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
2001 Chadoor, performance, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
Alef Ba, Artists/Writing/Reading Room III, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles
2000 In Between Alphabets, paintings, House of Iranian Artists, Tehran
1997 Semi Skin, video projection, LETIT BE, Film & Video Festival, Los Angeles
1995 Black Novel in Argentina: A Novel by Luisa Valenzuela, Ensemble Theater II, Valencia
1994 Selected Paintings, Sofitel Hotel, Los Angeles
1993 Title me not, Women Exhibition, Tehran
1991 Simorgh, Contemporary Museum of Art, MOCA Tehran, First Biennial of Iranian
Painters, Tehran
1990 Iranian Art Expo, Selected paintings, Tehran
Upcoming Projects
2017 “iCloud Creator, “Collecting Stonez, bit by bit.”” Xperimenting Memez – Global Borderline
– Istanbul, Turkey
2018 Book Publication Date To Be Announced, “Animating A, b, 30, d, e, Ghaf mountains, g, h,
i…” – Artists rights, space, peace, global development, “Art for a better and more sustainable
future.”