Upcoming/Current Exhibitions
2024 Moon Trees, Studio S.A.L.E.S. di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome, Italy
2023 Uncharted Echoes, Ab-Anbar Gallery, London, UK
Biennials & Festivals
2018 By The People, Halcyon Foundation, Washington DC
2010 Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier, Park City, Utah
2010 The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 Liverpool Biennial, ‘Made Up’, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2003 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2003 The Cologne KunstFilmBiennale, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
1999 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
1992 First Iranian Art Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
Awards
2014 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Umbria, Italy
2011 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF), Washington DC
2010 DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities; Artist Fellow
2003 Leone d’Oro, 50th Biennale di Venezia, Prize for The Best Italian Young Artist, Venice, Italy
2003 Young Italian Art Award, DARC (MAXXI Museum)
Works in Public Collections
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Diane Venet Collection, NY, USA
Galleria Civica D'Arte Moderna E Contemporanea (GAM), Torino, Italy
RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA
MONA, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
Art in Embassies Program, US Consulate, Mumbai, India
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Seven Silent Songs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2018 M77 Gallery, Milan, Italy
The Nobodies, Ab/Anbar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2017 Albion Barn, (Oxfordshire, UK)
2016 Reminiscences, Ab/Anbar Gallery, (Tehran, Iran)
2015 Fondazione Volume! (Rome, Italy)
Studio S.A.L.E.S. di Norberto Ruggeri (Rome, Italy)
2014 Sprovieri Gallery, London, UK
2013 GAM Collection, Turin, Italy
2011 Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome Italy
Sprovieri Gallery, London, UK
Collins C. Diboll Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
2009 Backyard and Other Stories, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Solace, So Old, So New, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
2008 Within and Without, Albion Gallery, New York, New York
Know me as I am Known, Albion Gallery, London UK
2007 MACRO, Museum of the Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
2006 Videos in Progress, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Blue Paintings, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
2005 Sweet Child in Time, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
2003 Young Italian Art Award, 50th Biennale di Venezia-DARC,Venice Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Epic Iran, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2018 By The People Art Festival, Washington DC (curated by Virginia Shore)
2016 Mass Individualism: a Forum of multitude, Ab-Anbar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2015 Works from MACRO Collection, MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy
2014 The Drawingroom, Curator: Peter Weiermair , Galerie In Taxipalais, Innsbruck, Austria
2013 The Drawingroom, Curator: Peter Weiermair, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany
2011 New Frontiers, Sundance Film Festival 2011, Park City, UT
HOME/LESS, Galleria Vistamare, Pescara, Italy
2010 Space, The Inauguration Exhibition for MAXXI Museum (exhibition catalog), Rome, Italy
The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe Biennial 2010 (exhibition catalog), Santa Fe, New Mexico
SHUDDER, The Drawing Room, London, UK
2009 Painting Group Exhibition, Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome, Italy
Emotional Drawing - SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul
Raad O Baargh, works of 16 Iranian Artists, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France
2008 Liverpool Biennial 2008, ‘Made Up’, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
bedün´ə onvän´ 1 (Untitled Series 1) The contrasting work of Avish Khebrehzadeh and Shahab Fotouhi, Barbican Centre, London UK
Emotional Drawing, MOMAK The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Kyoto Japan
A Perspective on Contemporary Art 6: Emotional Drawing – MOMAT, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Momentary Momentum - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
2007 The Geopolitics of the Animation, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla
Three Part Harmony: Definition, Delicacy, and Detail in Drawing - Curator's Office, Washington, DC
Momentary Momentum,; Animated Drawings., Parasol Unit, London, UK (exhibition catalog)
2006 Version Animée, Centre pour l’image Contemporaine Saint-Gervais Genève, Switzerland
Capolavoro, Terni, Italy
2005 ...O luna tu... , ARCOS Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Sannio, Benevento, Italy (exhibition catalog)
Sketch in Motion, Sketch Gallery, London, UK
Trasparenze, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Telltale, Ewha Art Center, Seoul, Korea (exhibition catalog)
2004 Cave Birds, Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan
Persian Gardens, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran (exhibition catalog)
Mediterraneans, MACRO Museum of the Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
2003 The Cologne KunstFilmBiennale , Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Movements of stories, curator: Marek Pokorny,The Brno House of Arts, Czech Republic
From Dusk to Dust, curator: Pontus Kyander, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
Animations, Kunstwerke, curator: Larissa Harris and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Berlin, Germany
Charles Avery, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Richard woods, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
The hidden Half:Iranian Woman Directors, Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2002 Desire, Curator: Peter Weiermair, Galleria D’arte Moderna (exhibition catalog), Bologna, Italy
2001 Desire, Curator: Peter Weiermair, Ursula Blickle Stiftung (exhibition catalog) Munich, Germany
Opere Su Carta, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Roma, Italy
Chairs in Contemporary Art, Curator: Agnes Kohlmeyer (exhibition catalog) Civici Musei Del Castello, Udine, Italy
Animations, P.S.1, curator: Larisssa Harris, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (exhibition catalog), New York
God is in the Details, Contemporary Museum in Geneva, Switzerland
2000 Tirannicidi, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica (exhibition catalog), Roma, Italy
ANeMOTION, Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Italy
Waterfront, Vikingsberg Art Museum (exhibition catalog), curator Pontus Kyander, Helsingborg, Denmark
Conversione di Saulo, Palazzo Odescalchi (exhibition catalog), Rome, Italy
1999 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Curator Paolo Colombo, Istanbul, Turkey
1997 Profondita`superficie, S. Maria dello Spasimo (exhibition catalog), Palermo, Italy
6 Personali, Castelluccio di Pienza (exhibition catalog), Italy
1992 Seihoun Gallery, Tehran, Iran
1992 First Iranian Art Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art
1991 Seihoun Gallery, Tehran, Iran
1990 Seihoun Gallery, Tehran, Iran