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

MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy

MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy

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