EDUCATION

BA in Photography, Azad Art and Architecture University, Tehran

COLLECTIONS AND AWARDS

BMW ART MAKERS 2022, laureate, with curator Morad Montazami, Paris, France

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France

Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), Paris, France

Peters-Messer Collection (Sammlung Peters-Messer), Berlin/Viersen, Germany

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, United States

Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Special Prize, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2e Festival du Dessin Contemporain Iranien, Tehran, Iran

GROUP EXHIBITIONS — MUSEUMS AND INSTITUTIONS

L’utile et l’agréable, Paris Design Week, POUSH, Aubervilliers, France

Augmented Paris: The New International Art Scene, Zhi Art Museum, Chengdu, China

Revenir du Présent, curators: Yvannoé Kruger, Stéphane Ibars, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France

CONTACT Photography Festival, Focus Room, Zaal Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Shaping (Refracted times / Under construction / In your head), curators: Zohreh Deldadeh, Anne-Laure Peressin, Andy Rankin, POUSH, Aubervilliers, France

A Space of One’s Own, Festival CURRENT – Art and Public Space, Stuttgart, Germany

Le Paysan, le Chercheur et le Croyant, curator: Yvannoé Kruger, POUSH, Aubervilliers, France

Intérieurs 2020, film screening, selected by the contemporary committee, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France

Border Line, curator: Yvannoé Kruger, Pavillon Vendôme, Clichy, France

Intérieurs 2020, film screening, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

Intérieurs 2020, film screening, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France

Dust to Come..., The Mosaic Rooms, online film screening, curator: Tehran’s New Media Society, London, UK

RealitätsCheck, Art'Us Collectors' Collective, Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

What Paradise?, Peters-Messer Collection, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany

The End of the World, curators: Fabio Cavallucci, Elena Agudio, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

The Hidden Garden (Les Lundis du Pavillon), Pavillon Neuflize, Palais de Tokyo / Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

Unedited History, curators: Catherine David, Odile Burluraux, Morad Montazami, Narmine Sadeg, Vali Mahlouji, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

Unedited History, curators: Catherine David, Odile Burluraux, Morad Montazami, Narmine Sadeg, Vali Mahlouji, MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy

(One) Hope Map, curators: Ikoubaân Mohammed, Michel Dewilde, Horizon 4 Culture Center & Nomadisch Kunstencentrum, Museum Bruges, Belgium

Pulso Iraniano, curator: Marc Pottier, Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

UNERWARTET / UNEXPECTED. Von der islamischen Kunst zur zeitgenössischen Kunst, curator: Necmi Sönmez, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Iran Inside Out, curators: Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath, Chelsea Museum of Art, New York, USA

Photo-Dialogue Contest, Iranian Artist’s Forum, Tehran, Iran

9th Biennale of Iranian Contemporary Photography, Academy of Arts, Tehran, Iran

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

IN THE NIGHT GARDEN, Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris, France

Hauntologie Suburbaine, Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, BMW ART MAKERS, Cloître Saint-Trophime, France

DE(RE)CONSTRUCTED UTOPIAS, duo show with Marlon de Azambuja, AB-ANBAR Gallery, London, UK

An archaeological study of a star, curator: Alexandre Colliex, POUSH, Clichy, France

The wind appears and blows, curator: Odile Burluraux, Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris, France

Cyclothymia of a Land, online film screening, Vdrome (vdrome.org), curators: Edoardo Bonaspetti, Andrea Lissoni, Filipa Ramos; Managing Editor: Enrico Boccioletti

Pop-up Clouds, Yassi Foundation, Tehran, Iran

Capital Complex, curator: Nina Tabassomi, MINI / Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies, Ludlow 38, New York, USA

Cyclothymia of a Land / Free Adaptation: Landscape/Mountain, AG Galerie, Tehran, Iran

o2: blissfulfallartist-arriving-shoess-empty-earth.psd, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Miscellaneous, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran

CAPITAL, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran

The Benefits of Vegetarianism, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran

ART FAIRS

Basel Social Club, presentation of Unblocked Avatars, Dastan Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

Asia Now Art Fair, La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France

Paris Photo, BMW ART MAKERS, Paris, France

Asia Now Art Fair, Paris, France

Asia Now Art Fair, Paris, France

Code Art Fair, solo show, AG Galerie, Copenhagen, Denmark

Photo London, exhibition, AG Galerie, London, UK

Art Dubai, Aaran Gallery, Dubai, UAE

ME.NE.SA’ Art Fair, F&A Projects, Beirut, Lebanon

Art Dubai, Aaran Gallery, Dubai, UAE

DFOTO, Silk Road Gallery, San Sebastian, Spain

Paris Photo, Silk Road Gallery, Paris, France

Zaal Art Gallery x Simine Paris, Galerie LIVINEC, Paris, France

Uncharted Echoes, AB-ANBAR Gallery, London, United Kingdom

REACH THE WORLD, CIAM de Toulouse, Toulouse, France. Curator: Laura Samori

Tehran: Capital in CAPITAL, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Curators: Natalya Nusinova, Homayoun Askari Sirizi

Where/Between, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. Curator: Pantea Haghighi

Solo exhibition, AB-ANBAR Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Fold, CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium. Curators: Michel Dewilde, Azar Mahmoudian

Iranian Arts Now, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

I.U. [HEART], The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Iran diVerso: Black or White?, Verso Gallery, Turin, Italy

Golden Gates: Contemporary Art from the Middle East, organized by F&A Projects, Paris, France

MADE IN IRAN, Asia House, London, United Kingdom. Curators: Arianne Levene, Églantine de Ganay

Breaking News: Contemporary Art from the Middle East, organized by F&A Projects, Paris, France

Iran, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

In the State of Weightlessness, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran

self/destruct, Bag Factory Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Iran, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia

Thinking Cypresses, Rebel Minds Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Berlin Meets Tehran, Tammen Gallery, Berlin, Germany

N Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

Only Delhi, Khoj Gallery, New Delhi, India

Khak Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Asar Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran

RESIDENCIES

POUSH, studio residency, Aubervilliers, France

L’AiR Arts Association, Atelier 11, artist residency, Paris, France

Shifting Panoramas on Visual Conception and Recent Transformations of Urban Landscapes in Tehran and Berlin, IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), Berlin, Germany

Cité Internationale des Arts, Residency Program, Paris, France

Artist talk, Téhéran : Projections d’une ville, Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris, France

Hillyer Art Space, International Arts & Artists, Washington DC, United States

Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, residency program, Johannesburg, South Africa

Khoj International Artists Association, artist residency, New Delhi, India

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

The Lync Interview: In Conversation with Arash Hanaei, by Mahsan Shams

Revenir du présent, exhibition catalogue, Collection Lambert x POUSH

Mohit.art, Multimedia Publication Exploring Contemporary Iranian Art Networks

ARLES 2022, Catalogue, Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, Actes Sud

FISHEYE, BMW ART MAKERS : Les Fantômes Architecturaux d’Arash Hanaei et Morad Montazami

FISHEYE, Catalogue for the exhibition « Suburban Hauntology », Les Rencontres d’Arles, BMW ART MAKERS

Libération, Aux Rencontres d’Arles, Voyage Jusqu’au Bout du Monstre

Le Point Special edition, Dans le Laboratoire de l’Image de Demain, by Victoria Gairin, Les Rencontres d’Arles

Financial Times Chinese, Moving Utopian Architecture in to the Metaverse, by Peifen Sung

Forbes, The Cofounder Of Paris’ First Asian Contemporary Art Fair Speaks About The Iranian Art Scene, by Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle

The New York Times, Iran Joins the Lineup at Asia Now

Multitudes Review, De Téhéran et d’Ivry, article by Gaëtane Lamarche-Vadel, Issue 74

Cyclothymia of a Land, MUBI, by Arash Hanaei

Hyperallergic, article by Seph Rodney

Unedited History 1960-2014 (Séquences du moderne en Iran des années 1960 à nos jours), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Le Magazine littéraire

Beaux Arts Magazine, Fabrice Bousteau

L’Oeil Magazine

Tehran Art, compiled by Ehsan Lajevardi

Amidst Shadow and Light, article by Hamid Keshmirshekan

Pulso Iraniano, Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

UNERWARTET / UNEXPECTED. Von der islamischen Kunst zur zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany, catalogue

Art Press Magazine, special issue, ‘L’Iran dévoilé par ses artistes – Iran Unveiled’, article by Helia Darabi

‘Iran diVerso: Black or White?’, Verso Gallery, Turin, Italy

The New York Times, Art in Review, Iran Inside Out

‘Iran Inside Out’, Chelsea Museum of Art, New York, USA

Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art, by Hossein Amirsadeghi

Guardian UK, ‘Made in Iran unveiled at London gallery’

Monopol Magazine, Issue 1, article by Ralf Hanselle

Iranian Photography Now, by Rose Issa

Canvas Magazine, text by Arash Hanaei

Bidoun Magazine, article by Tirdad Zolghadr