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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS — GALLERIES
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