CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Fabrications, Theory of Survival at Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA; Recollections, San Jose State University, Martin Luther King jt. Library; 2011Free, public artwork at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF; 2008 Evocations, Rose Issa Gallery, London, United kingdom; 2007 Most Wanted, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2002 Hall of Reflections, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, SF, CA
COLLECTIVE PROJECTS
2009 One Day, A Collective Narrative of Tehran, Co-organized with Ghazaleh Hedayat, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Theory of Survival, Bay Area Now 5, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF, CA; Theory of Survival, at The Lab, San Francisco, CA; 2006 We Are Here, Oliver Arts Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland; Homes, ZeroOne Global Festival of Art on the Edge, International Symposium of Electronic Arts, San Jose, CA; 2005 Represent, Collective Project, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA; Of Past and Present, Collective Project, Intersection for the Arts, SF, CA; 2001 The Word Room, Post Exile, Janalyn White Gallery, Cedar Rapids, IA
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2012 FAX, San Francisco Arts Commission; The Future Is NOW: Asian America on Its Own Terms, APICC 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Somarts, SF; Luggage Store windows Projections, Euphrat Museum, Cupertino, CA; 2011 EndGame, Azad Gallery, Tehran Iran; A Dream of Eternity, Bighossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels; Istanbul Contemporary 2011, Rose Issa Projects, Turkey; Mixed Hanging, Rose Issa projects, London; Keeping an Eye on Surveillance, Performance Art Institute, SF; Zendegi, Art and Life in Contemporary Iran, Beirut, Lebanon; Breathed, Somarts, San Francisco; 2010 Istanbul Contemporary, Rose Issa Projects, Istanbul, Turkey; Bastakia and Art Dubai, Rose Issa Projects, United Arab Emirates; Depth of Surface, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA; 2009 Paper Bullets; Grand Central Station, California State University, Fullerton, Orange, CA Aperture, 9th Festival of the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Imaging Self, Oliver Arts Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA; Mixed Hanging, Rose Issa Projects, London; 2008 We Remember the Sun, Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco; The Way That We Rhyme, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; East of the WEST, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA; 2007 Global Eyes, Siggraph International Exhibition, San Diego, CA; On the Edge of Culture, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI; 2005 Calling into the Void, Works, San Jose, CA; 2004 Somewhere/ Elsewhere, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA; Sacred Spaces, Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, CA; The Drawing Project, Vamiali Art Gallery, Athens, Greece; Poetics of Proximity, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange; 2003 Sharjah 6th International Biennial, Sharjah Museum of Art, UAE; 2001 Alchemy, MYArt Prospects, New York, NY; Telling Time, Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA; Trans/Planting, A Space Gallery, Co-Curator, Toronto, Canada; 2000 Mirrors of the Invisible, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San Bernardino, CA
AWARDS and RESIDENCIES
2012Center for Cultural Innovation Artistic Innovation AwardCreative Capital Foundation Grant; Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacher Foundation; 2011 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Public Commission; Alliances for Artist Communities Conference, Travel Award, 2010 Victoria and Albert Museum, Commission; 2009 British Museum, Art Fund Collection purchase; 2008 The Lab, Residency, San Francisco, CA, California College of the Arts, Faculty Project Grant; 2007 Kala Art Institute, Fellowship Award, Berkeley, CA; San Francisco Art Commission, Cultural Equity Grant; San Francisco Foundation, Individual Artist Grant; Headlands Bridge Residency, Alternate; 2005 Center for Art and Public Life, Residency, California College of the Arts, CA; 2004 Visions from the New California, James Irvine Foundation, Residency Consortium Award; Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodlands, CA; 2003 California Stories Fund, California Council for the Humanities, CA; 2002 San Francisco Arts Commission, Cultural Equity Grant; 2000 Creative Work Fund, Visual Arts Award, San Francisco, CA; California Arts Council, Artists in Residence, CA
CURATIONS
2012 In the Currents, co-curated with Lucy Lin; Asian Art Gallery, Oakland; 2011 Working Conditions, co-curated at Southern Exposure; 2010 Time after Time, co-curated with Valeries Imus, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA; 2008 East of the West, co-curated with Anu Vikram, SOMARTS, APICC
PRESENTATIONS/CONFERENCES
2012 Artist Talk San Jose State University; California State University, Artist Talk Monterey; Artist Talk DeAnza College; 2011 Artist Talk, Tehran Iran; Art and Social Justice, Grants for the Arts, Pre-conference, SF; Professional Development Conference University of California, Berkeley, CA; March Meeting: Theory of Survival, Sharjah Arts Foundation,UAE; 2010 Vocabulary of Dissent, Conference, California State University, Fresno; Collective Diaspora, Anthropology Conference, UC Irvine; LASER, Leonardo Cultural Event, University of San Francisco, CA; Issues and Artists, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA; The Portrait Reconsidered, Meridian Gallery; 2009 Visual and Cultural Studies Forum, CCA; Artist as Citizen, University of San Francisco, CA; 2008 Dialogues and Practices, Panel, CCA, SF Jewish Museum; Kala Artist Fellowship Talk, Berkeley, CA; The Way that We Rhyme, panel, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF; Issues and Artists, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA; Artist as Citizen, University of San Francisco, CA; 2007 Textile Lecture series, CCA; Most Wanted, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Artist as Citizen, University of San Francisco, CA; 2006 American Studies Association Conference, Panel, Visualizing Bay Area Communities, Oakland, CA; 2005 Iranian Alliance Across Borders International Conference, panel, University of Maryland, College Park, VA; 2004 Image Matters Symposium, panel, UC Berkeley, CA; Public Art and Social Change, Richmond Arts center, panel, Richmond, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2005-present California College of the Arts, Adjunct Professor; 2010-2013Southern Exposure, Curatorial Committee; 2011 Juror, Visions Award, Alliance of Artist Communities; 2010 juror, San Francisco Arts Commission, Cultural Equity, Individual Artist Grant; Awards Advisor, Parsa Foundation; 2008-2010 advisor, Visual Aids; 2009 Awards Advisor, Faculty Grant, California College of the Arts;, Awards Advisor, Parsa Foundation; Insider/Outsider, Roots Division; 2008 Juror, Siggraph International Exhibition; 2007 Awards Advisor, Creative Work Fund; 2003 juror, Francisco Arts Commission, Cultural Equity Organizational Grant
PUBLICATIONS:
2012 Paradigm Shift, Edited by Hon Hanru with Mary Ellen Johnson, SFAI, 2011 Zendegi, edited by Rose Issa,Catalog, cover, A Dream of Eternity, Bighossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, 2010 Where We are Now; One Day, Collective Narrative of Tehran,Intersection for the Arts, Catalog; 2009 RadicalHistory Review, Iranian Revolution Turns Thirty, Duke University press, interview; Paper Bullets, Hidden Wounds, California State University Fullerton; The Portrait Reconsidered, Meridian Gallery; 2008 Bay Area Now 5, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; The Way that We Rhyme, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; 2006 Signs, Rutgers University publication, cover; Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been, University of Arkansas Press, Book Cover; 2005 Embodying Cultural Memory, Sharon Parker, Barakat Foundation, Oxford, United kingdom; The Space of Memory, Sharon Parker, University of Arizona, NV; 2004 Sacred Space, Terri Cohn and Meredith Tromble, Berkeley Arts Center; 2003 Sharjah 6th Biennial, Peter Lewis, United Arab Emirates, catalog.
PRINT and MEDIA:
2012 Print: Sculpture Magazine, by Donna Schumacher; Shargh Newspaper, Simin ; 2011Print:SF Gate, 96 hours- Art News; Albeiragh, Beirut, Aldiar, Beirut Media: Art Practical by Noga Wizonsky; Social Practices Art Network, Interview; 2010 Print:Artillary, Bay Area Artists, Anuradha Vikram; Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, “The Art of Peaceful Protest, , Anuradha Vikram, Jan/Feb Media:Where We Are Now, Aftermath, One Day, Taraneh Hemami; Tehran Bureau, ” Urban Askance, One Day in Tehran, Majid Jahan, January KPFA‘s Voices of the Middle East and North Africa 2009 Print:Contemporary Practices, Profiles, Dubai, UAE, Fall; SF Arts Monthly “At Intersection: Artists Create A Portrait of Life in Iran”, Sura Wood, December; San Francisco Chronicle, “One Day,” Patrick Knowles, November; SFGate “Just Another Ordinary Day in Tehran,” Lauren Parvizi, November; SF Weekly, “Tehran So Far Away: A Group Show the Life,” Traci Vogel, Octobe;r Media:SF Station, “Turbulent Waters Run Deep,” Ann Taylor, December; Iranian.com, One Day, Ari Siletz, November; Artslant, “Everyday Stories,” Jolene Torr, November; Culture Blog, November; Nancy Ewert, “One Day In the Life, Examiner.com, November; Zoneil Maharaj, “Extra-Ordinary Iran,” WireTap Magazine, November; Ilya Tovbis,One Day,” Flavorpill, October; 2008 Print:Sculpture Magazine, by Terri Cohn, October; Fuse, Tirza LatimarMedia: BBC Persian, London; KPFA, Against the Grain; KPFA, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa; KALW, Your Call;Bad at Sports; Voice of America; 2007 Print:SF Station, Open to interpretation, Nirmala Nataraj; SF Arts Monthly, “Artists Use Found Materials to Explore Our Culture”, Sura Wood; SFChronicle, “Arab Women in a New Light”, Jonathon CurielMedia: KPFA, Against the Grain; KPFA, Voices of the Middle East; Comcast Cable TV, Inside City Limits; ArtTalk, SFSU; 2006 Media: KQED, Spark!, A Few Good Stories; Voice of America; 2005 Print:San Francisco Chronicle, Jonathan Curiel, Represent, reviewMedia: KPFA, Voices from Middle East and North Africa, Interview; 2004 Print:Fuse Magazine, Laura J Kuo, Somewhere/ Elsewhere;SF Chronicle, Jonathan Curiel, Artists Use Bold Strokes to Penetrate Stereotypes, review; Bidoun 03, Laura J KuoMedia:Universes in Universe, Contemporary Arts from the Islamic World; 2003 Print:Art in America, Fast forward on the Persian Gulf, Grady Turner, November; New York Times, Regime Change Takes Effect at a Persian Universe, Sharjah Enters the Eye of Storm, by Antonio Carver
EDUCATION:
1991 California College of the Arts (CCAC); Master of Fine Arts, Painting
1982 University of Oregon, Eugene; Bachelors of Fine Arts, Painting