Education /ResidencyFellowship/Grant/Awards
2024 Artist Project reserch grant , Mondriaan Fund,NL
2023 MacDowell fellowship Spring-Summer, New Hampshire, USA
2018 Heterotropics #4, residency M HKA, Lodgers and AirAntwerp, BL
2016 3Package Deal - Grant by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK) and Bureau Broedplaatsen (BBP)with Rijksakademie, Kunstverein en Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
2015 Werkbijdrage Bewezen Talent, Mondrian Fund,NL
2015 A.i. R (Dubai) residency / Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, Tashkeel, Delfina Foundation, and Art Dubai, UAE
2013-14 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/ Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Atelierhaus Salzamt residency, residency, Linz, AT
2011 Special mention of the tenth scholarship, "Robert Village ", Efti, Madrid, ESP
2011 Winner of Paul Hill Exposure Awards as part of the Format International Photography Festival, UK
2008 The Bag Factory Artists' Studios residency, Johannesburg, ZA
2005 Letter of recommendation: the second annual award Kaveh Golestan, IR
2005 Theertha residency, Colombo, SR.
2002 BFA, Photography, Tehran University of Art, IR
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan and Derelict, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AT
2016 Safe landing, Hit gallery, Bratislava, SL
2016 Ask the Birds, Gabriel Rolt Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2006 Untitled, Self-portraits, Silkroad Gallery, Tehran, IR
2004 Bodiless, I (zourkhaneh), Silkroad Gallery, Tehran, IR
2002 Mannequin, Iranian Artist's Forum, Tehran, IR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION AND PERFORMANCE
2024
Whispers of Petals, Adapa Gallery, Tehran, IR
In your dreams / في احلامك / مگه خوابشو ببینی,Bayt AlMamzar, Dubai,UAE
Outspoken. Voices beyond the Archive Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst ,Leipzig,DE
2023
The Laugh of the Medusa, The Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, EKKM, Tallinn, EE,
Art Island, ROZENSTRAAT,Forteiland IJmuiden ,NL
Die Aussenseiterband, GALERIE DER KÜNSTLER*INNE München, DE
Simurgh, Galerie Crone, Berlin Gallery Weekend, DE
"Tracing Movement(s) in Uncertain Times" Goethe Institut im Exile at Kunsthaus ACUD, Berlin, DE
2022
'Stories of Belonging,' de Appel, Amsterdam, NL,
THE UPSHOT OF TRANS-AFFECTIVE SOLIDARITY, Torrance Art Museum, CA, USA
Glower, Larder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
10th edition of Vantage Point Sharjah (VPS), Sharjah Art Foundation, Al Hamriyah Studios, UAE
2021
Is it possible be a revolutionary and like flowers? Nest, The Hague, NL
Who Wants to Live in a World Without Magic? Tent, Rotterdam, NL
THE UPSHOT OF TRANS-AFFECTIVE SOLIDARITY at MOTORENHALLE Centre of Contemporary, Dresden, DE
Other Future, Specters from Beyond, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
2020
Utters excess in between, State of Concept, Athens, GR
Worlding Worlds, MU Art space, Eindhoven, NL
Plural Fertilities, Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen, NL
Curated by, The Effects of Crossings & Self-Aggrandization in the Human Kingdom, Gallery Mario Mauroner, Vienna, AT
"See You There: Making History at The Corner," inspired by The Whitman-Walker HIV Oral History, The Corner at Whitman -Walker, DC, USA
2019
A Flower in My Mouth, Salzburger Kunstverein, AT
Flotsam, Jetsam Lagan and Derelicht, City Princes/sses, Palais de Tokyo, Paris,FR
Performance The Horse Weep The Bird Tell The Fortune, City Princes/SSEs, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Performance The Horse Weep The Bird Tell The Fortune part of 'Exchange and Misunderstandings', performance program for Best Wishes for 1999- The Jan Dibbets collection.National Gallery of Tirana, ALB
I AM SO MULTIPLE IN NIGHTS, The Pool, Brussels, BE
Elsewhere within Here, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, NL
2018
Brace For Impact, Node#1, de Appel, Amsterdam, NL
Funny how forever feels now, Juliette Jongma Front Space, Amsterdam, NL
TRANS, the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, ZA
Only The Morning Bird Treasures the Flower Garden, Red Cat Gallery, CA, USA
20 propositions, A garden inside a forest, Salzburger Kunstverein, AT
HOLE WATER Sound performance in collaboration with Geo Wyeth and Ivan Cheng, M HKA, Lodgers space, Antwerp, BL
Heterotropics #4, Lodger, M HKA, Antwerp, BE
Drawings, 650mAh, HOVE, UK
2017
Staging the Inhabitable, Platform Trauma, Amsterdam, NL
Surface Tensions, Black church print studio, curated by Jaki Irvine, Dublin, IE
Happy people, SMOKING LOUNGE Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IC
(UN) mediated nature, gallery Tanja Wagner, Berlin, DE
Art Rotterdam, NL
2016
Artissima, Torino, IT
Giving Yesterday a Tomorrow. Iran: Architecture and Art, Ifa, Stuttgart, DE
Forming of Inevitable Blue, Hit gallery , Apartcollective, Bratislava, SL
Companions: The long-lasting intimacy of strangers, Luckman Gallery, curated by Candice Lin, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Extension. IR Tehran. Capital in CAPITAL letters.Triumph Gallery- Moscow, RU
Things to Remember(Page Not Found) ,Castrum Peregrini,Amsterdam,NL
Come closer, Oude Kurk, Sound performance, Amsterdam, NL
Art Rotterdam, NL
2015
Dust, Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
De arrogantie van de jeugd at Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam,NL
Art Dubai-A.i.R, UAE
2014
Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten,Amsterdam, RijksakademieOpen,NL
hocus pocus, hoc est corpus,Thomaskerk,Amsterdam,NL
Recalling The Future: post revolutionary Iranian art Brunei Gallery, London, UK
2013
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, RijksakademieOPEN
Speaking from the heart, FramerFramed, Amsterdam, NL
2012
Light from the Middle East, Victoria & Albert Museum, London,UK
2011
Metropolis - City Life in the Urban Age /noorderlitch photo festival, Groningen, NL
Die iranische weltanschauung, Freies Museum, Berlin,DE
Disturbing public opinion,Roda Sten Konsthall,Göteborg,SE
Right Here, Right Now, International format festival, Derby museum, UK
2009
Inside Tehran out ,Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, Switzerland, CH
165 ans de photographie iranienne, Musee du quai branly, Paris,FR
2008
Bag factory art galley, Johannesburg, ZA
After the revolution, contemporary photography from Tehran and California, San Fransisco Art Commission, US
2007
Biennale des images du monde, Photoquai, Musee du quai branly, Paris,FR
VIDEO SCREENING:
2024
Altering Tensions, The Other Side Festival in Vantaa, FI
2023
36 International festival les instants video Friche la Belle de Mai, OUR VIDEO POETIC FRIENDSHIPS, Marseille,FR
A Reality Through Words and Images, W139, Amsterdam, NL,
Wavelengths series, Gulistan, TIFF, Toronto, CA
2019
BODY POLITICS, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Body Politics, Doclisboa, Portugal,
2017
Perplexity Alloy, Videograph, Montreal, CA
يُعاد,Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre,Ramallah,Palestine,PS
2015
Unfailing memory Kunstverein Freiborg e.v. and theatre inMarienbad,DE
2014
in-out, Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, GR
2013
in-out, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Gulistan , gallery utopia, Berlin, DE
STILL LIVES & SELECTED ACTS, Dastan's Basement, Tehran, IR
Gulistan, Göteborg Poetry Festival, Sweden, SE
2012
Mise en abyme, Elástica, CINEMÁTICA Festival, Montréal, CA
Mise en abyme, ” Gulistan video “ Sazmanab, Tehran,IR
The Garden of Eden, Lost, and Found, A video program with artists from the Middle East, place de Tokyo, Paris, FR
International Movie Night on 'nothing, "Gulistan video" geh8 art space and studio eV, Dresden, Germany, DE
2011
Iran via video current (NYC/Tehran), Thomas Erben Gallery, US
CURATING:
2023- graduation show Textile &Text 3rd year, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2022-WHAT REMAINS, video club, online film program co-curated with Tabitha Steinberg, UK,
2019-A Flower in My Mouth, Co-curated with Sara Giannini and Jacopo Miliani, Salzburger Kunstverein, AT
2018-Only The Morning Bird Treasures the Flower Garden, Red Cat Gallery, co-curated with Sohrab Mohebbi and Carmen Amengual, curatorial assistant. Los Angeles, USA,
2017-Art Rotterdam, Gabriel Rolt booth, Rotterdam, NL
Teaching/Talk/Workshop
WORKSHOP WinterLab, ArtEZ Academie voor Art & Design Zwolle, Understanding the self as a method of self-care,2024
Advisor at SNDO School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam, NL,2024
Mentor at DAS Choreography, Master program, Amsterdam, NL2018, 2023
Second Tutor A Year of Research: Text as Material, IAFD, KBK, The Hague, NL 2023
SNDO1 festival outside eye first year, Amsterdam, NL,2023
External Respondent graduation show at Textile & Text, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL,2022
Graduation Jury, Dirty Art Department, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, NL,2020
Guest advisor -Dirty Art Department, Sandberg, Amsterdam, NL,2020-2021
Mentor at SNDO School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam, NL,2017,2018
Artist Talk, Elsewheres Within Here, Milena Bonilla, Sissel Marie Tonn, Remco Torenbosch, along with curator Jo-Lene Ong, Framer Framed Amsterdam, NL,2019
Artist talk,Brace for Impact,Jan Verwoert, Thomas Swinkels,Mehraneh Atashi, De Appel, Amsterdam,NL,2018
PUBLICATION:
2024 Women, Art, Freedom,Artist and Street politics in Iran, Leuven University Press and Cornell University, Edited by Pamela Karimi
2024 Rethinking the Contemporary Art of Iran, Edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan, Published by: SKIRA
2024-DE-ORIENTALIZING THE WESTERN GAZE ON GENDER STRUGGLES IN IRAN, Arts of the Working Class,2024
2023-Seeds as memory capsules - Chupan Mehraneh Atashi's political acts of remembering, Metropolis M magazine, Katayoun Barzegar, NL
2023-Interview Umbigomagazine issue 84, Lisbon, PT
2023- Cheshmak Magazine | دوازدهمین شمارهی نشریهی چشمک با موضوع طبیعت بیجان,Tehran,I.R
2022-Umbigomagazine issue 83, Tehran's self-portraits, Lisbon, PT
2022-Een fotografe in de Iraanse mannensportschool,Judith Naeff, ZemZem tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en islam,NL
2021-Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers? – A contemporary floriography, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Nest, Den Haag, NL
2020-Urban and Visual in Contemporary Iran, Author: Pedram Dibazar, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK
2019-Only The Morning Bird Treasures the Flower Garden, edited by Mehraneh Atashi, Published by CalArtsREDCAT, US
2019- They become my eyes on your body, issue 29 Palais magazine on the occasion of the exhibition "City Prince.sse.s", FR
2018- حمید کشمیرشکن، «کنکاشی در هنر معاصر ایران»، موسسهی فرهنگی پژوهشی چاپ و نشر نظر، تهران، صفحات 338، 359، ,452 485,IR
2018-Ludic Garden, Edited by Radna Rumping-Mehraneh Atashi, NL
2016-things to remember,page not found, NL
2016-EXTENTION.IR,Truimph gallery,RU
2013-Hamid Keshmirshekan, "Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives," SAQI, pages 238, 277
2013-La Photographie Iranienne,un Regard Sur la Creation contemporaine en Iran,FR
2011 - Seeing studies, dOCUMENTA (13) Casco - Office for Art, Design, and Theory and the Institute for Incongruous translation, Editor: Natascha Sadr Haghighain, Ashkan Sepahvand, NL
2009-Petunia, Triangle France, FR
2009-Hossein Amirsadeghi, "Different Sames," Thames & Hudson in association with TransGlobe, London, pages 92-93
2005 - Twelve Photographic Journeys: Iran in the Twenty-First Century
COLLECTIONS:
British Museum, United Kingdom
Shanti Art Collection, United Kingdom
Devi Art Foundation, India