Bridge of Persia 2013 Fundraising Auction Catalogue

FRONT COVER “BRIDGE” SIAH ARMAJANI / 201 3 MIXED MEDIA 40.6 x 70.3 x 2.8 cm

IMAGE COURTESY OF LARRY MARCUS

WELCOME TO

bridge of persia 14 OCTOBER 2013 I ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART I LONDON FUNDRAISING AUCTION GALA

CHAIRLADY’S MESSAGE

It is with immense pride that we bring the Magic of Persia Fundraising Auction Gala back to its home in London after six years. As we approach our 10-year anniversary, we have named this year’s fundraising event “Bridge of Persia”, to reflect our ongoing mission to build bridges of appreciation and understanding between Iran and the rest of the world.

On the front cover of our catalogue, we are honoured to feature renowned artist Sia Armajani’s spectacular piece ‘Bridge’. Sia’s Bridge is a true reflection of the peer-to-peer development we have strived for through our endeavors. Our aim at Magic of Persia, has been to create a platform for cultural exchange; a space in which practitioners, academics, students, and a wider audience can unite to promote and expand Iranian culture and knowledge, hereby contributing to and molding its long-term advancement.

I am often asked the question: why does Magic of Persia promote Persian culture as opposed to say European? As an art form, is Tanavoli’s Heech so much more beautiful and inspiring than Picasso’s Blue Nude for example? Or is it so inferior that it deserves our support to help it catch up? This question of course cannot be answered. Art is the most abstract and subjective medium we have as humans. Art is influenced by an infinite number of feeders such as history, geography, politics, economics, religion, technology, and of course aesthetics. It is the purest expression of our species – a footprint unbound by rules, regulations, red tape and even time.

What I can say with conviction is that because of my background, Persian art and culture is close to my heart. I have the natural passion and willingness needed to contribute positively to this growing field.

It is my hope and understanding that this path is being followed by a multitude of people around the world - all wielding their passion and the energy of their communities to focus on their specific areas of interest.

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Magic of Persia’s success through the decade has been immeasurable. We are so grateful to the individuals, institutions and organisations that share our vision; those who have joined hands with us to make opportunities available to those who need our support. Naturally, without the artists and galleries who have generously donated their artwork, the charity would not be what it is today.

We are indebted to our main sponsors who have made this evening possible. The inimitable Ali Bakhtiar has outdone himself once again bringing his magic from Dubai to the production of the Bridge of Persia Gala.

Morris Associates have lent their excellent expertise to the design of the Exhibition of the Auction Highlights, truly showcasing the beauty of the donated works. And of course the Christie’s team - with us since day one, who continue to act as a bedrock to our fundraising efforts.

We remain to grow in strength thanks to a dedicated team of staff, trustees, patrons, and volunteers who in the past year have worked tirelessly to bring together another star-studded event. The wave of our success has touched so many beyond our expectations.

It is through a repetition of these actions, that the web of global culture and civil society is woven. Through each of our individual positive acts and initiatives we are building bridges of appreciation and thus understanding for people from all of the world, and all of its cultures to cross. We hope that with your support we will continue to grow and expand in this direction - one bridge at a time.

Shirley Elghanian

PROGRAMME

BRIDGE OF PERSIA I LONDON 14 OCTOBER 2013 ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART Cocktail Reception 6:30pm Dinner 8:00pm Keynote Speaker: Maryam Eisler Live Auction: Conducted by Christie’s 1 0:00pm Auctioneers: Isabelle de La Bruyere & Hugh Edmeades Announcement of MOP CAP 201 3 Winner Musical performance by: BahramJi & InnerJi Carriages 1:00am

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ABOUT MAGIC OF PERSIA

Magic of Persia (MOP) promotes Iranian art and culture to a wider audience outside of Iran, and strives to make a notable contribution to its long-term advancement worldwide. This is accomplished by establishing programmes in modern and contemporary Iranian art, music, media and academia in partnership with world-class institutions.

MOP’s programmes include: The Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize (MOP CAP); a global search for the next generation of Iranian visual artists.

Art residencies and exhibitions for young Iranian artists at the Delfina Foundation, Parasol unit and Royal College of Art in London.

Scholarships and grants in higher education at the Royal College of Art, London Film School, and Goldsmiths University of London.

A series of artists’ panel discussions entitled ‘Different Perspectives on Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art’ in collaboration with the British Museum.

Family days bringing together more than 120,000 people at the British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

The charity’s primary source of funding derives from the auction of artwork generously donated by established and emerging Iranian artists. Conducted by Christie’s and held in Europe and the Middle East, the success of these fundraising events relies entirely on the participation and support of artists and patrons alike. Sponsorships from organisations and individuals also support MOP’s various projects.

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SPECIAL THANKS

SIA ARMAJANI ALI BAKHTIAR BEHZAD BEHNAM NIMA BEHNOUD MARIA Z. BEHNAM BAKHTIAR BRIDGE AND TUNNEL PRODUCTIONS CHRISTIE’S HUGH EDMEADES CHRIS FRANKLIN TINA GHARAVI DINA NASSER KHADIVI ISABELLE DE LA BRUYERE PETITE MARIE JEWELRY COLIN MORRIS SIA SALEK

MAGIC OF PERSIA WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE TIRELESS SUPPORT OF ALL OF THE ARTISTS, COLLECTORS AND GALLERIES WITHOUT WHOM THIS EVENT WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE.

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BENEFICIARIES

MAGIC OF PERSIA BENEFICIARIES 2014/2015 OMID FOUNDATIONS, LONDON POPLI KHALATBARI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, LONDON SNOWFLAKE SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM, LONDON BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON DELFINA FOUNDATION, LONDON GOLDSMITHS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, LONDON LONDON FILM SCHOOL, LONDON PARASOL UNIT FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, LONDON MOP CAP 201 5, LONDON & DUBAI EDUCATION, EXHIBITION, PUBLICATION, FILM AND MUSIC GRANTS

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SPONSERS

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museum and exhibition design consultants international award winning interior designers London - Dubai - Geneva www.exhibitiondesign.com info@exhibitiondesign.com +44 (0)20 7252 7007

Forest without Leaves - V&A Museum

morris associates

RAMAZAN BAYRAKOGLU (Turkish, b. 1966)

Browns stitched fabric mounted on canvas 67 5⁄8 x 101 5⁄8 in. (172 x 258 cm.)

Executed in 2013 US$50,000–70,000

Modern & Contemporary Arab, Iranian & Turkish Art Part I & Part II • 29 – 30 October 2013 Part III • 24 October –11 November 2013

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Dubai Online Only Sale

Viewing

Contact

27– 30 October Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, UAE

Bibi Naz Zavieh bzavieh@christies.com +971 4425 5647

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AUCTIONEERS

HUGH EDMEADES Hugh Edmeades is a much sought-after auctioneer for high profile national and international charity auctions and during the last ten years has conducted over 500 sales and has helped raise in excess of £50 million for charitable cause. In 2005, he was chosen to conduct the BBC’s inaugural televised celebrity auction in aid of Children in Need. In 2008, he conducted the auction for Nelson Mandela’s 90th Birthday Gala in London, selling the eight lots for a total of £4.3 million.

Hugh Edmeades joined Christie’s in 1 978 as a furniture specialist. In 1 984, he became Head of the Furniture Department at Christie’s South Kensington and in the same year conducted his first auction. In 1 990, Hugh was appointed Director of Specialist Departments, a role in which he worked closely with professional advisors, personally overseeing the disposal of numerous estates through a variety of innovative specialist sales.

After three years as Deputy Chairman, Hugh was appointed Chairman of Christie’s South Kensington in 1 999. In 2006, Hugh was appointed as Christie’s International Auctioneer.

ISABELLE DE LA BRUYÈRE Isabelle de La Bruyère joined Christie’s London in 1 998 after getting her post-graduate diploma in 1 9th and 20th Century art, whilst simultaneously working as a researcher for the Impressionist Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. At Christie’s London, Isabelle specialised in Impressionist and Modern Art as an expert, before heading the specialist annual sales of Ottoman & Orientalist Art. Since 2003, much of Isabelle’s time has been concentrated on the Middle East expanding Christie’s presence and business in the region. She has organized many important exhibitions of jewellery and art, charity auctions, and has helped Christie’s Dubai achieve record-breaking auction prices for both modern & contemporary art and jewellery auctions since the inaugural sale of Arab & Iranian Art in May 2006.

Previously, Isabelle was based in Dubai where she has published numerous articles and has been a guest speaker in many seminars and educational lectures. In 201 3, Isabelle returned to London to work in the Chairman’s office.

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LIST OF ARTISTS FAIG AHMED FARHAD AHRARNIA AZADEH AKHLAGHI SIAH ARMAJANI ABOL ATIGHECHI FEREYDOUN AVE ANDISHEH AVINI SHOJA AZARI MAHMOUD BAKHSHI RANA BEGUM BEHZAD BEHNAM SASSAN BEHNAM BAKHTIAR MOHAMMAD BOZORGI HENRY DALLAL MORTEZA DAREHBAGHI GOHAR DASHTI HANIEH DELECROIX & KEYVAN SABER REZA DERAKHSHANI BOBAK ETMINANI SHAHAB FOTOUHI DARA GALLOPIN SHADI GHADIRIAN KOUROSH GOLNARI ROKNI HAERIZADEH SAHAND HESAMIYAN SHEREE HOVSEPIAN BABAK KAZEMI AVISH KHEBREHZADEH ABBAS KIAROSTAMI BEHDAD LAHOUTI AHMAD MORSHEDLOO MORVARID ALI MOUSAVI SHIRIN NESHAT NICKY NODJOUMI LEILA PAZOOKI SHAHPOUR POUYAN MYRIAM QUIEL SARA RAHBAR BAHAR SABZEVARI BEHNAM SADIGHI KOUROSH SALEHI HADIEH SHAFIE PARVIZ TANAVOLI NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN

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THE AUCTION CONDUCTED BY CHRISTIE’S l 2013

Contemporary arts including artistic, curatorial, organising and writing practices are the fastest growing cultural sector across the region. Consequently there is a rising need to invest in the education and training of those who can take such complex collaborations on and guide them through to international signification. As the contemporary art world becomes a place from which we can also speak of the social, the economic, the political and the experiential, training for it needs to expand its intellectual base.

The Curatorial/Knowledge program’s effort to look at curating as a research process that draws in numerous types of knowledge and produces far more than exhibitions, has now led to a cohort of graduates who are playing a major role in innovative practices across the globe.

The MRes degree in Curatorial/Knowledge will allow candidates to take several seminars both in the program and in the Visual Cultures Department at Goldsmiths, in which the program is located.

Beyond the courses, they will produce a dissertation that also includes a practice component to do with innovative exhibition and curatorial practice.

Seminar in Curatorial/Knowledge, Goldsmiths University of London

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In return for your generous sponsorship you will receive the following benefits: Curatorial/Knowledge is a programme for those working in the field, therefore, patrons are invited to join us for a private exhibition visit and subsequent discussion that will highlight the unique curatorial understandings of the program. Selecting an exhibition with many strands of meaning and several different curatorial achievements, we will ask some of the curators participating in the program to unpack it for us.

Through this open exchange, we can hopefully show the concept of Curatorial/Knowledge in action.

Full-page colour message for you and/or your company in the next Magic of Persia Fundraising Auction Gala catalogue Listing of your name and/or company in all marketing material of the Scholarship Special acknowledgment of your name and/or company in the Magic of Persia newsletter and website

Seminar in Curatorial/Knowledge, Goldsmiths University of London

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Since 201 0, Magic of Persia has partnered with the London Film School (LFS) to provide scholarships for Iranian students to attend a 2-year MA filmmaking course.

An advisory committee, comprised of respected individuals from within the Iranian filmmaking community, nominates potential candidates. The eligible candidates are selected by LFS via the school’s application process.

Since 1 956, the London Film School has trained thousands of directors, cinematographers, editors and other film professionals now working across the globe. It is recognised as a leading private film school in the UK and is one of only two institutions, which solely provides postgraduate film courses in the UK.

Iranian Diaspora and its Cinematic Imagination, MA Filmmaking Scholarship Launch 2010

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www.lfs.org.uk In return for your generous sponsorship you will receive the following benefits: Individual London Film Society membership (value of £1 ,000) Membership to the London Film Society allows people to become part of the vibrant film community at the LFS. Members are welcome at all LFS events including end of term shows and parties, the annual graduation show, regular screenings and Q and As with top film talent and more high profile events for the industry. As regards the latter, the Society events this term included a drinks and dinner reception hosted by Mike Leigh in a new space in the Barbican Arts Centre and a reunion screening of Trainspotting hosted by Danny Boyle (and attended by key cast and crew) at L’Institut Francais. http://lfs.org.uk/support-us/london-film-society Full-page colour message for you and/or your company in the next Magic of Persia Fundraising Auction Gala catalogue Listing of your name and/or company in all marketing material of the Scholarship Special acknowledgment of your name and/or company in the Magic of Persia newsletter and website

Recipients of the MA Filmmaking Scholarship 201 3-201 5, Dornaz Hajiha and Golnaz Jamsheed [LEFT] Recipient of the MA Filmmaking Scholarship 201 0-201 2, Fateme Ahmadi [RIGHT]

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Magic of Persia is delighted to be in the fourth year of it’s partnership with Delfina Foundation [DF], offering residencies in London for Iranian artists, including the winner of the Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize. During their stay, Delfina Foundation provides artists with a range of crucial professional development opportunities.

Delfina Foundation is an independent, not for profit organisation dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange through residencies, partnerships and public programming. Since 2007, DF has hosted over 1 00 artists from 1 8 countries, with a special commitment to the MENSA region. DF grew from the Delfina Studio Trust, an organisation that held an unprecedented record for nurturing and supporting artists, including more than a dozen Turner Prize nominees. Delfina Foundation aim is to develop and support, often under represented artists, writers and curators with a platform to showcase their ideas to leading arts professionals, academics, art lovers and members of the public alike. In January 201 4, Delfina Foundation will open it’s newly expanded home becoming one of London’s largest international residency spaces.

In return for your generous sponsorship you will receive the following benefits: Delfina Foundation will cater a bespoke package to your individual interests providing a range of different opportunities from advanced invitations, to educational talks and screenings, to behind the scenes lunches with the artists whom you would be supporting.

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Royal College of Art | Kensington Gore | London, SW7 2EU The Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize (MOP CAP) is a worldwide search for the next generation of contemporary Iranian visual artists who have the potential to make a significant impact in their field.

Claudia Djabbari Negar Farajiani Azin Feizabadi Mahmoud Mahroumi Bijan Moosavi Anahita Norouzi Behnam Sadighi

Judges Philippa Adams Senior Director of the Saatchi Gallery, London Dr. Ziba Ardalan Founder, Director and Curator of Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London Mat Collishaw Artist Dr. Anthony Downey Director of Contemporary Art Programme, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London Irit Rogoff Writer, Theorist and Professor of Visual Cultures, Goldsmith’s College, London Payam Sharifi Co-founder Slavs and Tatars Selection Committee Fereshteh Daftari, Curator & Scholar Media Farzin, Art Historian & Critic Hamid Severi, Art Historian & Curator

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FAIG AHMED B. 1 982 Faig Ahmed is an Azerbaijani artists represented by YARAT Contemporary ART Organisation (NGO) EDUCATION Sculpture, Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Art, Baku, 2004 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS East in Twist, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 2 | Actual Tradition, Kicik Qalart Gallery, Baku, 201 2 | Actual Tradition, Islamic Art Festival, Sharjah, 201 2 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Love me Love me Not, Venice Biennale, YARAT Contemporary Art Space Pavilion, Venice, 201 3 | Wonder Works, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, 201 3 | At the Crossroads, Sotheby’s Auction House, London, 201 3 | Home Sweet Home, Azerbaijan Cultural Centre, Paris, 201 3 | NEXT LEVEL, Contemporary Art Gallery YAY, Baku, 201 2 | Commonist, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, 201 2 | Fly to Baku: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan, Paris, 201 2 | Fly to Baku: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan, Phillips de Pury & Company, London, 201 2 | On Soz, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, 201 1 | Fabulous Four, Kicik Qalart Gallery, Baku, 201 1 | Steps of time, Kunsthalleim Lipsiusbau, Dresden, 2008 | Aluminium 3, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Baku, 2007 | 52nd Venice Biennale, Azerbaijan Pavilion, Venice, 2007 | Caucasus, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2006 | Aluminium, Carpet Museum, Baku, 2005 | FARHAD AHRARNIA B. 1 971 EDUCATION Experimental and Documentary Film Theory and Practice, Northern Media School, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, 1 997 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Modern Stage, Tashkent Biennale, Tashkent, 201 3 | Canary in a Coal Mine, Rose Issa Projects, London, 201 2 | Stitched, Leighton House Museum, London, 2008 | Home, Bessie Sertees House, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, 2005 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Aks: pictorial representations from Iran, Rose Issa Projects, London, 201 2 | Cometogether, Edge of Arabia, London, 201 2 | Migrasophia, Maraya Contemporary Art Centre, Sharjah, 201 2 | Quotations from Daily Life, 6th Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art, Tashkent, 201 1 | Zendegi: Twelve Contemporary Iranian Artists, The Beirut Exhibition Centre, 201 1 | Bringing the War Home, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, 201 2 | Balla Drama, Paradise Row Gallery, 2009 | A Picture of Us, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 2009 | Magic of Persia, Royal College of Art, London, 2009 | Connect, Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford, Sheffield Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and Documenta XII, Kassel, Germany, 2007 | Prelude, Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford, 2006 | Palace & Mosque: Islamic Arts from the Victoria & Albert Museum, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, 2006 | COLLECTIONS The Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford | Harewood House, Leeds | The British Museum, London | AZADEH AKHLAGHI B. 1 978 EDUCATION Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS By an Eye-Witness, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, 201 2 | Me, As the Other Prefers, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Suspension 1 36

in Tehran, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 7th Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul Convention and Exhibition Centre, Istanbul, 201 2 | Iranian Arts Now, Cite Internationale des Art, Paris, 201 2 | 6th Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul Convention and Exhibition Centre, Istanbul, 201 1 | Breakfast in Tehran, Janet Rady Fine Art Frameless Gallery, London, 201 1 | Trade Route, PI Gallery, Istanbul, 201 1 | Speak Farsi Greek, ICCA Art Space, Athens, 201 1 | Image of the Year, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, 201 1 | Fuck ups, Fables and Fiascos, Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin, 201 0 | Women and Urban Life Competition, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, 201 0 | Image of the year, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, 201 0 | UN Habitat Competition, Univeristy of Westminster, London, 2009 | Persian Art, Istanbul Art Center, Istanbul, 2009 | 1 / 1 5 Mahe Mehr, Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | The Green, Pardis Mellat Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | Image of the Year, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, 2009 | The Expo of Photography, Saba Art Center, Tehran, 2008 | The Binaries, Mehrva Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | Image of the Year, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, 2008 | Whispered Secrets, Murmuring Dreams, Mall Gallery, London, 2008 | The Binaries, Day Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | Inner Eye, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, 2008 | The Mass, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, 2007 | The Mass, Mirak Gallery, Mashhad, 2007 | The Mass, Asa’d Gorgani, Gorgan, 2007 | SIAH ARMAJANI B. 1 939 EDUCATION Macalester College, Minnesota, 1 960 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Siah Armajani, An Ingenious World, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, 201 3 | Citizen Artist, a Retrospective, The Orange Country Museum of Art, 201 3; The Walker Art Centre, 201 4, Upcoming | Siah Armajani, 1 957-1 964, Meulensteen, New York, 201 1 | Murder in Tehran, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, 2009 | 3 Sculptures 3 Drawings, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, 2009 | Dialog with Democracy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 2008 | Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, 2007 | Centro de Arte Y Naturaleza, Huesca, 2007 | Fundacion CesarManrique, Lanzorate, 2007 | MAMCO Retrospective, Geneva, 2007 | Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, 2005 | Glass Room for an Exile and Related Works, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, 2002 | Glass Room for Walter Benjamin, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, 2002 | Glass Room, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, 2000 | University of Iowa, Iowa City, 2000 | PERMENENT SCULPTURES The Chess Garden, Des Moines, 2006 | Floating Poetry Room, Ijborg, Amsterdam, 2005 | Bentley Plaza, Ohio University, Athens, 2003 | Glass Bridge, Cheekwood Museum and Garden, Nashville, 2003 | George Simmel Footbridge, Strasbourg, 2003 | Gazebo, Village Shalom, Overland Park, 2001 | Mural, The Sosland Foundation, Kansas City, 2001 | Gazebo with Picnic Table, Strasbourg, 2000 | Bridge for Iowa City, Iowa City, 2000 | Picnic Table for Huesca, Bielsa, Huesca, 2000 | NON-PERMANENT SCULPTURES Room for Noam Chomsky: The Last Anarchist. P.S. 1 , Long Island City, 1 998 | Room for the First Anarchist Henry David Thoreau, Galeria der stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, 1 994 | Gazebo for One Anarchist: Emma Goldman, Storm King Art Centre, Mountainville, 1 991 |

Sacco and Vanzetti Reading Room No. 4, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., 1 990 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS September 11, MoMA PS1, 2011 | Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 2010 | Artists and War, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, 2008 | The Contemporary Persian Scene: The American and European Experience, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 2006 | Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East, British Museum, London, 2006 | Between the Lakes: Artists Respond to Madison, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, 2006 | Gardens of Iran: Ancient Wisdom, New Visions, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2004 | Architecture and Arts: 1 900-2000, Genoa, 2004 | Far Near Distance: Contemporary Positions of Iranian Artists, House of World Cultures, Berlin, 2004 | Symmetries: Armajani, Artschwager, Le Va, LeWitt, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, 2004 | Between Word and Image: Modern Iranian Visual Culture, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, 2002 | Doors: Image and Metaphor in Contemporary Art, New Jersey Centre for Visual Arts, Summit, 2002 | Art Unlimited: Art/32/Basel, Basel, 2001 | Drawing Projects: Drawing by Seven Artists, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, 2001 | New Work: Recent Additions to the Collection, Addison Gallery, Andover, 2001 | Follies: Fantasy in the Landscape, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, 2000 | AWARDS AND GRANTS Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 201 0 | McKnight Foundation Distinguished Artist Award, 201 1 | Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt | The Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis | COLLECTIONS Museum of Modern Art, New York | The Guggenheim Museum, New York | The British Museum, London | The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | ABOL ATIGHETCHI B. 1 948 EDUCATION BSc Queen Mary College, University of London, London | Fine Arts, Mid-West City College, Oklahoma City | Solihull College, Birmingham | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Courtyard Gallery, Dubai, 201 2 | Seyhoun Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Fine Arts Museum of Saad Abaad, Tehran, 201 3 | Burje Milad, Tehran, 201 2 | Niavaran Cultural Centre, Tehran, 201 2 | AIP Maison Des Artistes, Tehran, 201 2 | Seyhoun Art Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Tehran, 201 2 | Magic Of Persia, Charity Auction, Dubai, 201 2 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 201 1 | Magic Of Persia, Charity Auction, Dubai, 201 0 | Bonhams “Start” Foundation Art Charity Auction, Dubai, 2009 | Capital Club Charity Auction, Dubai, 2009 | Magic Of Persia, Charity Auction, Dubai, 2009 | Exhibition at Capital Club, Dubai, 2008 | Mellat Art Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | Art Dubai, Dubai, 2008 | DIFC Governors Entrance Lobby and VIP lounge, Dubai, 2007-201 0 | Saba Cultural Institute, Tehran, 2007 | Contemporary Museum of Fine Arts Saad Abad, Tehran, 2007 | Charity Exhibition, Imam Ali Museum, Tehran, 2007 | XVA Art Gallery, Dubai, 2006 | Contemporary Art, Toulouse, 2001 | International Exhibition, Futurescope, Poitier, 2000 | Galerie d’Art Modern, Evian les Bains, 1 990 | Art Forum, Annecy, 1 989 | Art Forum, Annecy, 1 988 | Gallerie d’Art Modern, Evian les Bains, 1 988 | Gallerie du Theatre, Evian les Bains, 1 987 | Indice de Reve Art Gallery, Thonon les bains, 1 986 | Solhull Art college, Solhull, 1 980 |

City, 1 979 | Seyhoun Art Gallery, Tehran, 1 978 | FEREYDOUN AVE B. 1 945 EDUCATION New York University Film School, New York | University of Seven Seas, Orange | Arizona State University, Temple | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS The Sacred Elements: Wind, Rossi & Rossi, London | Rostam in the Dead of Winter, B21 Gallery, Dubai | Lal Dahlias, B21 Gallery, Dubai | Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran | Herve Van der Straeten Gallery, Paris | 1 3 Vanak Street Gallery, Tehran, | Silk Road Gallery, Tehran | Evenement du Jeudi, Paris | Sheikh Gallery, Athens | 1 3 Vanak Street Gallery, Tehran | Omega Gallery, Athens | 1 3 Vanak Street Gallery, Tehran | Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran | Farideh Cadot Gallery, Paris | Zand Gallery, Tehran | Litho Gallery, Tehran | Iran – American Society Cultural Centre, Tehran | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?, Rossi & Rossi, London | Inaugural Exhibition, JAMM, Shuwaikh | Roundabout, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv | Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington | Boys and Girls Come out to Play, Summer exhibition, Rossi & Rossi, London | The Sacred Elements: Wind, Rossi & Rossi, London | Rostam in the Dead of Winter, B21 Gallery, Dubai | Demons and D-Artboards, with Malekeh Nayiny, Rossi & Rossi, London | Contemporary Art Museum, Tehran | The Contemporary Persian Scene: The American and European Experience, Leila Heller Gallery, New York | Welcome, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, New York | Gods Becoming Men, Frissiras Museum, Athens | Iran Under the Skin, Casa Asia, Barcelona | Regards Persans, Espace Electra, Paris | Iranian Contemporary Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London | Iran Heritage Show, London | Salon d’Automne de Paris, Paris | Contemporary Art Museum, Tehran | Zand Gallery, Tehran | Hayden Zand Gallery, Washington D.C. | Basel International Art Fair, Basel | COLLECTIONS The British Museum, London | La Caisse des Dépôt et Consignation, Paris | Contemporary Art Museum, Tehran | Lloyds Bank, Geneva, Switzerland | Centre Georges Pompidou Collection, Paris | Cy Twombly Foundation, New York | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | ANDISHEH AVINI B. 1 974 EDUCATION Hunter College, New York | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Andisheh Avini, I-20 Gallery, New York, 201 1 | Screw, Spread, Slip, Such, Stab, Fall, Cross and Writhe, Half Gallery, New York, 201 0 | Andisheh Avini, I-20 Gallery, New York, 2009 | Homesick, Feinkost Gallery, Berlin, 2009 | Gavlak Projects, West Palm Beach, 2008 | Andisheh Avini, I-20 Gallery, New York, 2007 | Alberto Peola Fine Arts, Turin, 2006 | Andisheh Avini, I-20 Gallery, New York, 2005 | Andisheh Avini, Rome Arts, New York, 2003 | Andisheh Avini, I-20 Gallery, New York, 2002 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Opposing the Binary, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles 201 3 | Poule!, Fundacion/Colección Jumex, Santa Maria Tulpetlac, 2011 | Sentimental Education, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, 2011 | We’re all gonna die, Number 35 Gallery, New York, 2009 | Empire and Its Discontents, Tisch Gallery, Tufts University, Sommerville, 2008 | Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2008 | Theatre of Cruelty, White Box, New York, 2007 | Omnia Vanitas: Vanity is All the vanitas and still life tradition from the Nineteenth Century to the present, Gavlak Projects | Six Feet Under – Autopsie unseres Umgang mit Toten, Kunstmuseum 1 37

Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 2006 | The Gold Standard, P.S . 1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York, 2006 | VOLTA 02 Show, Basel, 2006 | ARCO 2006, I-20 Gallery, Madrid, 2006 | Melange, Gavlak Projects, West Palm Beach, 2006 | New Perspectives, FIAC, I-20 Gallery, Paris, 2005 | Art Forum, I-20 Gallery, Berlin, 2005 | Rimbaud, I-20 Gallery, New York, 2004 | Synapses, Florence Lynch Gallery (FIT), New York, 2004 | Art Basel Miami Beach, I-20 Gallery, Miami, 2003 | The Garden of Eden, The Factory, New York, 2003 | The Armory Show, I-20 Gallery, New York, 2003 | Up in Arms, Parker’s Box, Brooklyn, 2003 | Friends and Family, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, 2002 | Artissima, I-20 Gallery, Turin, 2002 | Art Forum Berlin, I-20 Gallery, Berlin, 2002 | SHOJA AZARI B. 1 958 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 3 | Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, 201 3 | There Are No Non-Believers in Hell, Jerome de Noirmont Gallery, Paris, 201 1 | VIP Art Fair, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 1 | There Are No Non-Believers in Hell, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 0 | ZOOM Contemporary Art Fair, Miami Beach, 201 0 | Icons, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 0 | Icons, Figge Von Rosen Gallery, Koln, 201 0 | Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Turin, 2009 | Oil Paintings, Art Dubai, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 2009 | Shoja Azari, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 2009 | Figge Von Rosen Gallery, Koln, 2008 | Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 2008 | Special Project, Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Basel Art Fair, Basel, 2007 | Project Rooms, ARCO, Madrid, 2006 | Windows, Domus Artium Museum Salamanca, Salamanca, 2006 | Special Project, Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Exitbart, Torino, 2006 | Convergencias, Helga de Alvear Gallery, Madrid, 2006 | Windows, Figge Von Rosen Gallery, Koln, 2006 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Summer Selects, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 3 | The King of Black, Sconfinamenti, Spoleto Festival of Two World, 56th Edition, Spoleto, 201 3 | Love Me, Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbours, Arsenale Nord, Tessa 1 00, Venice, 201 3 | The Space Between: Contemporary Perspectives on Tradition and Society, Middle East Centre for the Arts, (MECA), Jersey City, 201 3 | Festival Iranian Arts Now- Les Arts Iraniens Maintenant, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, 201 2 | Art Beat Fair, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 1 | [Dis]Locating Culture: Contemporary Islamic Art in America, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, 201 1 | Art Dubai, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 1 | Abu Dhabi, Leila Heller Gallery, Abu Dhabi, 201 0 | On Rage, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 201 0 | In Defense, Progetto 1 07, Turin, 201 0 | Live Art/Expanded, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 201 0 | Tehran-New York, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 0 | C.O.N.T.R.A.V.I.O.L.E.N.C.I.A.S., Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea – Donostia, 201 0 | New Directors/New Films, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 201 0 | Blazing Grace, East Central Gallery, London, 201 0 | Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2009 | A Room with A View, Kunstfilmbiennale, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2009 | Punto de Encuentro, Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba, 2009 | Urbanea, Fundacio Cultural Es Convent, Inca, 2009 | L’Iran sans Frontiere, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, 2009 | VIVA Show, LOOP Alternative Space, Seoul, 2009 | Selseleh/Zelzeleh: Movers & Shakers in Contemporary Iranian Art, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 2009 | Kunst Biennale, Cologne, 2009 | St. Moritz art masters, St. Moritz, 2008 | Proyecto Civico/Civil Projects, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, 2008 | Splash, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 2008 | Park and Castle of Acciaiolo-Scandicci, Florence, 2008 | Summer Group 1 38

Show, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 2008 | Ma Liberaci dal Male, Galleria San Fedele, Milan 2008 | Existencias, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain, 2008 | Silence, Galleria II Gabbiano, Rome, 2008 |Camm, Centro Atlantico de Arte Contemporaneo, Las Palmas, 2007 | Video Dia Loghi Festival, Torino, 2007 | The Space Between, Petach Tivka Museum of Art, Petach Tivka, 2007 | Pre-Opening Exhibitions, Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, 2007 | 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, 2007 | Kunstfilm Videonale, Koln, 2007 | Emergencies: the Inaugural Show of MUSAC, Museo de Arte, 2006 | Amerika, Figge Von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, 2006 | Galleria II Gabbiano, Rome, 2006 | After the Revolution: Contemporary Artists from Iran, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, 2005 | Change, Palermo, Italy, Belgium, 2003 | The Lincon Summer Festival, New York, 2002 | Art Angel, London, 2002 | Logic of the Birds, New York; Minneapolis; London; Siracusa; Brugg, 2001 | SECLETED FILM SCREENINGS Women without Men, Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, 201 0 | Women without Men, Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul, 201 0 | Women without Men, Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, 201 0 | Women without Men, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, 201 0 | Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 2008 | Las Palmas International Film Festival, Canary Islands, 2007 | Video Dialoghi Festival, Torino, 2007 | Kunstfilm Videonale, Cologne, 2007 | Tribeca Film Festival, New York, 2006 | Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland, 2006 | San Diego International Film Festival, San Diego, 2006 | Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, 2006 | Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum, Hiroshima, 2005 | Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2005 | ArteEast Cinema, New York, 2005 | Anthology Film Archive, New York, 2004 | Cantor Film Centre, New York University, New York, 2003 | Gutek Poland International Film Festival, Gutek, 2003 | Moscow Film Festival, Moscow, 2003 | Yale University, New Haven, 2003 | Asia Art Society, New York, 2003 | IFP, Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2003 | 43rd International Thessaloniki Film Festival, Thessaloniki, 2002 | Tribeca Film Festival, New York, 2002 | Cornell Belgrade Film Festival, Belgrade, 2002 | 59th Venice Film Festival, Venice, 2002 | University, Ithaca, 2002 | SELECTED MULTI-MEDIA PERFORMANCE Logic of the Birds, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, Sussan Deyhim and Ghasem Ebrahimian in New York, Minneapolis, London, Siracusa, and Brugge, 2001 | The Lincoln Summer Festival, New York, 2002 | Art Angel, London, 2002 | Change, Palermo, Belgium, 2003 | FILMOGRAPHY Paradise, Film Script, 2009 | Women Without Men in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, 2008 | Faezeh in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, 2008 | Munis in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, 2008 | Odyssey, Short Length, 2008 | Converted, Feature Length, 2007 | Windows, Feature Length, 2006 | Zarin in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, 2005 | Mahdokht in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, 2004 | Maria de Los Angeles, Feature Length, 2003 | The Last Word in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, 2003 | K, Feature Length, 2002 | Toob in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, 2001 | Logic of Birds, 2001 | Pulse in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, 2000 | Possessed in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, 2000 | Fervoi in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, 1 999 | Rapture in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, 1 999 | Soliloquy in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, 1 999 | The Story of the Merchant and the Indian Parrot, 1 998 | Turbulent in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, 1 998 |

MAHMOUD BAKHSHI B. 1 977 EDUCATION BA Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Tehran, 2001 | SOLO SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Hard Copy, Art Gwangju, Gwangju, 201 2 | Recycle, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, 201 2 | Bah Man, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, 201 1 | Bah Man, Aun Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | The Engaged Artist; Influences of Graphics on Sculpture in Middle Ages, Saatchi Gallery, London 201 0 | Tulips Rise from the Blood of the Nation’s Youth, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | Ave Gallery, Tehran, 2007 | Mahmoud’s Driving School, Tehran Gallery, Tehran, 2006 | Oh ABOLFAZL, Bazaar Mosque, Enghelab street; and Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 2004 | Barg Gallery, Tehran, 2002 | Barg Gallery, Tehran, 2001 | Barg Gallery, Tehran, 2000 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Love Me/ Love Me Not, Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbors, The 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, 201 3 | DISASTER, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, 201 3 | Transformed Visions, Tate Modern, London, 201 2 | 1 Mile² Tehran, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon, The 4th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, 201 0 | Untitled, Khastoo Gallery, Los Angeles, 2009 | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, 2009 | Iran: New Voices, Barbican Centre, London, 2008 | Lion Under the Rainbow, Athens, 2008 | In the State of Weightlessness, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | Asia Art Now, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, 2006 | Asia Art Now, Arario Gallery, Beijing, 2006 | Iran.com, Museum of New Art, Freiburg, 2006 | Eastern Expressway, Evangelische Stadtakademie, Frankfurt, 2006 | Rebel Minds Gallery, Berlin, 2005 | Victim, Niavaran Artistic Creations Foundation, Tehran, 2004 | 1 1th Bangladesh Biennial, Daka, 2004 | Exhibition of a Spiritual Vision, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2003 | Cite International des Arts, Paris, 2003 | Exhibition of New Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2002 | 3rd Tehran Sculpture Biennial, Niavaran Artistic Creations Foundation, Tehran, 2002 | 1st Exhibition of Conceptual Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2001 | 2nd Tehran sculpture Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2000 | AWARDS Winner of the MOPCAP Prize, 2009 | Second Prize, Third Tehran Sculpture Biennial, Niavaran Artistic Creations Foundation, Tehran, 2002 | Research Scholarship, Cite International des Arts, Paris, 2002 | Honour Plaque, Second Tehran Sculpture Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2000 | COLLECTIONS Tate Modern Collection | RANA BEGUM B. 1 977 EDUCATION MFA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2002 | BA Painting, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, 1 999 | BTEC Diploma, Foundation Studies in Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, 1 996 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS No. 1 0, The Third Line, Dubai, 201 3 | Manifold, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, 201 3 | Bischoff/Weiss, London, 201 2 | The Folded Page, Amrita Jhaveri, Mumbai, 201 1 | Fractured Symmetry, Bischoff/Weiss, London, 201 0 | Delfina Foundation, London, 201 0 | Barts Hospital, VitalArts, London, 2009 | The Moment of Alignment, The Third Line, Dubai, 2009 | Transient Symmetry, Vine Space, London, 2008 |

Colour Codes, The Third Line, Dubai, 2007 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS The Edge of Painting, The Piper Gallery, London, 201 3 | Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 201 2 | Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, 201 2 | The Art and Math of the Fold, Ft-Contemporary, Berlin, 201 1 | The New Middle East, Willem Baars, Amsterdam, 201 1 | Common Logic, IMT, London, 201 1 | Form & Phenomenon, Project 88, Mumbai, 201 0 | Sowing Seeds, Phoenix Square Screen, Leicester, 201 0 | Serendipity City, Future Everything, Manchester, 201 0 | How Nations are Made, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, 2009 | Pattern Recognition, The City Gallery, Leicester, 2009 | Lines of Control, Green Cardamom, London, 2009 | Neither Here, Nor There, The City Gallery, Leicester, 2009 | Monologue/Dialogue Part II, Bischoff/Weiss, London, 2008 | Repetition and Sequence, Jerwood Space, London, 2007 | Monologue/Dialogue, UKThai Art Today, British Council Residency, 2006 | Art:21Power /Memory/ Structures/Play, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, 2005 | Ad Infinitum: The Aesthetics of Repetition II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, 2005 | Colour My World, Riflemaker, London, 2005 | Upstarts, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, 2004 | AWARDS Received the Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture, 201 3 | Residency in Beirut, Delfina Foundation, 2009 | British Council Residency in Bangkok, 2006 | Arts and Humanities Research Board award for Postgraduate Study, 2000 | BEHZAD BEHNAM B. 1 945 EDUCATION Licensed in History/Political Science, Universite Libre De Bruxelles, Brussels | Tehran University, Tehran | The Royal Academy of Arts, Brussels | SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Entre L’Orient Et L’Occident, Salle Des Fetes, St. Jean Cap Ferrat, 201 3 | Galerie Ecole De Murat, Dubai, 201 2 | Magic of Persia, Dubai, 201 2 | Galerie Ecole De Murat, Murat, 201 1 | Magic of Persia, Abu Dhabi, 201 0 | Galerie Ecole De Murat, Murat, 201 0 | Magic of Persian, Dubai, 2008 | MJC Gallery, Paris, 2008 | Belles Pages Gallery, Murat, 2006 | Maison D’Auvergne, Paris, 2006 | Maison D’Auvergne, Paris, 2004 | Maison D’Auvergne, Paris, 2003 | MSJ Neuilly Gallery, Paris, 1 998 | Grand Cerf Gallery, Paris, 1 998 | MJC Gallery, Paris, 1 996 | Wulfingen Gallery, Switzerland, 1 994 | Mathis Gallery, Switzerland, 1 992 | Mathis Gallery, Switzerland, 1 990 | Essence Gallery, Paris, 1 989 | Gallery 24, Paris, 1 986 | Gallery 24, Paris, 1 984 | Gallery MJC, Paris, 1 984 | Gallery Partovi, Tehran, 1 976 | Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 1 975 | Gallery Sullivan, Tehran, 1 974 | Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 1 974 | SASSAN BEHNAM-BAKHTIAR B. 1 984 EDUCATION MBA, International University of Monaco Business School, International University of Monaco, 201 2 | American University in Dubai, Dubai, 2007 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Entre L’Orient Et L’Occident, Salle Des Fetes, St. Jean Cap Ferrat, 201 3 | Gallerie du Cap, St. Tropez, 2008 | Assar Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | MOHAMMAD BOZORGI B. 1 978 EDUCATION Momtaz Degree, Calligraphy Association of Iran, Tehran, 2009 1 39

| MBA, Industrial Management Institute, Tehran, 2009 | BA, Biomedical Engineering, Tehran, 2002 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 2 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS World Unveiled, Geneva, 201 2 | The Next Generation of Iranian Contemporary Calligraphy: Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, 201 2 | Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Abu Dhabi, 201 2 | Calligraphy, Shirin Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 2 | Vienna Art Fair, Vienna, 201 2 | Alternative Calligraphy, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | In Remember of Master Roubakhsh, ART Centre, Tehran, 201 1 | IRAN Invocation Land, Munich, 201 0 | COLLECTIONS Islamic Museum, Kuala Lumpur | HENRY DALLAL B. 1 955 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Windsor Castle 201 2, Balmoral Castle 201 2, London, 2006 | Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, 2006 | Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 2004 | Naples Museum of Art, Naples, 2004 | Weatherburn Gallery, Naples, 2004 | Windsor Castle, Windsor, 2003 | Guildhall Windsor, Windsor, 2003 | Royal Geographical Society, London, 2002 | Kensington Palace, London, 1 999 | COMMINSSIONS Her Majesty The Queen, 201 2, 2007, 2002 | HRH The Princess Royal, 2007 | | HRH Princess Haya and HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum | Authored and publshied photography books including Desert Pageantry (gold medal winner for most outstanding book o fthe year May 201 3) Horse Warriors, Pageantry and Performance, The World Came to Windsor, The Diamond Jubilee Pageant as commissioned by Windsor Castle.

Endurance Commisioned by HM King Khaliva Desert Pageantry commissioned by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos of Oman MORTEZA DAREHBAGHI B. 1 969 EDUCATION BA in Fine Art with Honours, Azad University, 1 995 | Plastic Arts School, Tehran, 1 991 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Meem Gallery, Dubai, 201 0 | Etemad Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | Niavaran Cultural Centre, Tehran, 2007 | Majlis Gallery, Dubai, 2007 | Hermitage Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2005 | Majlis Gallery, Dubai, 2005 | Rica Gallery, Stockholm, 2004 | Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 2004 | Cite International of Art, Paris, 2004 | Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 2002 | Majlis Gallery, Dubai, 2001 | Kavir Gallery, Rafsanjan, 2000 | Asar Gallery, Tehran, 2000 | Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 1 999 | Classic Gallery, Isfahan, 1 997 | Khorshid Gallery, Tehran, 1 997 | Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 1 996 | Classic Gallery, Isfahan, 1 995 | Naghshe-Jahan Gallery, Tehran, 1 995 | Classic Gallery, Isfahan, 1 994 | Seyhoon Gallery, Tehran, 1 994 | Classic Gallery, Isfahan, 1 993 | Keyhan Gallery, Tehran, 1 993 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Ikon House, Dubai, Dubai, 201 3 | Art Fair Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, 201 2 | Art Fair, Abu Dhabi, 201 1 | Art Fair, Dubai, 201 1 | 54th Biennial Venice, 201 1 | Bait Muzna Gallery, Muscat, 201 1 | Iranian Artists, New York, 2009 | Osborne Samuel Gallery, London, 2009 | Mall Gallery, London, 2008 | Grand Hyatt, Dubai, 2008 | 4th Islam World 1 40

Biennial, Tehran, 2006 | Exhibition of Video Art, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2006 | Exhibition of Video Art, Rome, 2005 | Exhibition of Iranian Garden, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2004 | 3rd Islam World Biennial, Tehran, 2004 | The 6th biennial Painting Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2003 | A Spiritual Vision, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2003 | Abim Group Exhibition, Niavaran Cultural Centre, Tehran, 2003 | Abim Group Exhibition, Mimara Museum, Zagreb, 2003 | 2nd Islam World Biennial, Tehran, 2002 | 2nd Conceptual Art, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2002 | Majlis Gallery, Dubai, 2002 | Exhibition in aid of earthquake survivors, Tehran, 2002 | Meridian International Centre, Washington, D.C., 2001 | The 1st Conceptual Art, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2001 | The 5th biennial Painting Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2000 | Contemporary Iranian Artists, Riaz, 2000 | Contemporary Iranian Artists, Yerevan, 2000 | Contemporary Iranian Artists, Kiyev, 1 999 | Green Art Gallery, Dubai, 1 999 | Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 1 998 | Exhibition in support of Hemophilic Patients, Tehran, 1 998 | Majlis Gallery, Dubai, 1 998 | Exhibition in support of Children suffering from Cancer, Tehran, 1 997 | The 4th biennial Painting Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 1 997 | Charity Exhibition of Hemophilic Patients, Tehran, 1 996 | Art at Your Door Gallery, Las Vegas, 1 996 | Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 1 996 | Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran, 1 995 | 3rd Biennial Iranian Paintings Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 1 995 | Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 1 995 | 2nd National Student Exhibition Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 1 994 | Keyhan Gallery, Tehran, 1 994 | 1st National Student Exhibition Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 1 993 | 2nd Biennial Painting Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 1 993 | Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran, 1 993 | 2nd International Flower and Plant Exhibition, Tehran, 1 993 | Persian Painting Exhibition Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 1 990 | Aftab Gallery, Tehran, 1 988 | AWARDS First Place at the Third Islam World Biennial, Tehran, 2004 | First Place, Fourth Biennial of Painting, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004 | First Place, First National Student Exhibition, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, 1 993 | First Place, The Second International Flower and Plant Exhibition, Tehran, 1 993 | GOHAR DASHTI B. 1 980 EDUCATION MA in Photography, Art University of Tehran, 2005 | BA in Photography, Art University of Tehran, 2003 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Inside Out, Office Dell Immagine Gallery, Milan, 201 3 | Volcano, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, 201 2 | Slow Decay, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | Me, She and the Others, Centre d’art Passerelle, Brest, 201 0 | Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, 2006 | Ara Gallery, Tehran, 2006 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Everyday Life: 201 3 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, 201 3 | SubTehran: Subjective Truth from Iran, Centre of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, 201 3 | About Face: Contemporary Portraiture, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 201 3 | She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 201 3 | All You Need is LOVE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 201 3 |The Eye is a Lonely Hunter-Images of Humankind, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, 201 3 | History is Mine!, Le Printemps de Septembre Festical, Festival Toulous, 201 2 | Images, Veyey, 201 2 | Ce n’est pas du

sang, c’est du rouge, White Project Gallery, Paris, 201 2 | The Eye is a Lonely Hunter-Images of Humankind, A selection from the 4th Fotofestival, Grimmuseum, Berlin, 201 2 | The Elephant in the Dark, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, 201 2 | Pulso Iraniano, Oi Futuro Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, 201 2 | 4th Fotofestival The Eye is a Lonely Hunter-Images of Humankind, Zephyr der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, 201 1 | Landscape, Revolution, People, Queen Gallery, Toronto, 201 1 | Staging Identity, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich 201 1 | Visiting Arts ( 1mile² project), Bradford, 201 1 | Freitag und Robinson, Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum, Berlin, 201 0 | Recent self-portraits, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Southern, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Biennale des images du monde, Photoquai, Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, 2009 | Hillyer Art Space, Washington D.C., 2008 | The inward eye, Contemporary art museum, Tehran, 2008 | Made in Tehran, Cicero Gallery, Berlin 2007 | Art 1 0th International Photo Biennale, Saba Cultural and Artistic Institute, Tehran 2006 | Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, 2006 | Iran Artists House, Tehran, 2005 | Nikol Gallery, Tehran, 2004 | Art Gallery, Tehran, 2004 | Barg Gallery, Tehran, 2004 | Niavaran Gallery, Tehran, 2004 | Mirak Gallery, Mashhad, 2004 | On Day in Afghanistan, Red Cross, Tehran, 2001 | COLLECTIONS Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City | White Project Gallery, Paris | Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich | Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon | Silk Road Gallery, Tehran | HANIEH DELECROIX B. 1 974 EDUCATION Paris Psychoanalytical Society, Paris, 201 2 | Laboratory for Somatic and Identity Attacks, University of Paris X Nanterre, Paris, 2007 | Cognitive and Emotional Processes, University of Paris X Nanterre, Paris, 2001 | Clinical and Pathological Psychology, University of Paris X Nanterre, Paris, 2000 | Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, 1 997 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Toi-Peau, La Galerie Afaprod, Paris, 201 2 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Le Collectif Des Createurs, La Galerie Afaprod, Paris, 201 3 | REZA DERAKHSHANI B. 1 952 EDUCATION Visual Arts, Tehran University, Tehran | Art Centre of California, Pasadena SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Ghandriz Gallery, Tehran | Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran | Iran Gallery, Tehran | Tehran University Art Gallery, Tehran | Mehr Gellery, Tehran | Lori Dunn’ s Gallery, LA | Thumb Gallery, London | Palais de la Nation, Geneva | White Gallery, New Jersey | Claude Gallery, New York | Mont Clair State University, New Jersey | Alternative museum, New York | La Lestra, Tarquinia | Media Loft Gallery, New York | East Gallery, Columbia University, New York / Il Punto di Svolta, Rome | St. John’s Cathedral, NY | Purcell Room, London | Lawson Gallery, Seattle | Thread Waxing space, NY | Texas University Art Gallery, Austin | Juilliard music school, New York | Paris- Washington, Gare Pasteur, Paris | Wetherholt Gallery, Washington D.C. | Metropolitan museum, New York | Khane-E Honarmandan, Tehran | Niavaran Museum/Creations Centre, Tehran | Tarrahan Azad Gallery, Tehran | NYU, New York | Assar Art Gallery, Tehran | Al Feryan gallery, Bahrain | Brooklyn Museum, New York | University of Toronto, Toronto | Caterina

Pazzi Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome | Nour Foundation Gallery, New York | Kennedy Centre, Washington. D C. | Brown University, Rhode Island | Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran | Gallery Mah, Tehran | Khak Art Gallery, Tehran | Art Dubai, Dubai | Art Fair Miami, Miami | Opera gallery, London | Art Paris, Abu-Dhabi | Niki Marquardt Gallery, Paris | Wilshire Ebell Theater, Los Angeles | Leila Heller Gallery, New York | Dar Al-Funoon Gallery, Kuwait | Museo Maxxi, Rome | Il Giadino di Filarmonia, Rome | Almine Rech Gallery, Paris | Sackler Gallery, Washington. D. C. | Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2009 | De-Paul University Museum, Chicago | Waterhouse and Dodd gallery, London | AB gallery, Luzern, | Art Fair, Abu-Dhabi | Art Fair, Istanbul | Osborne Samuel Gallery, London | Hope Exhibition, Dinard, 201 0 | Patrick Cramer Gallery, Geneva | The Pink House Stories, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, London, 201 3 | BOBAK ETMINANI B. 1 957 EDUCATION MFA Painting and Drawings, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, 1 991 | BFA Drawing (high distinction), California College of Arts and Crafts, 1 989 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS The Grey Paintings, Art People Gallery, San Francisco, 201 3 | Like the Universe, Eshraq Gallery, Qom, 201 1 | Observations, Aun Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Deep Silence, Khak Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | Retrospective, Imam Ali Museum, Tehran, 2007 | The Creations, Barg Gallery, Tehran, 2001 | The Constellations, Aria Gallery, Tehran, 1 994 | Art Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, 1 991 | Isabelle Percy West Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, 1 989 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Extraterrestrial, Aun Gallery, Tehran, 201 2 | Thinking About Art, Arta Gallery, Toronto, 201 0 | Protect Wild Life Heritage, The Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai, 201 0 | Grand Opening, Three Generations of Iranian Painters, Art Centre, Tehran, 2009 | Un-Habitant, University of Westminster, London, 2009 | Instructors of the Art Universities of Iran, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, 2006 | Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, 2006 | 4th International Biennale of the Islamic World, Saba Art Centre, Tehran, 2006 | Maah Gallery, Tehran, 2005 | Spiritual Art, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2003 | 3rd Biennale of Dhaka, Bangladesh National Museum, Dhaka, 2003 | Contemporary Drawings of Iran, Barg Gallery, Tehran, 1 999 | In Memory of Chagiz Shahvaq, Barg Gallery, Tehran 1 998 | MFA Exhibition, Oliver Art Centre, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, 1 991 | BFA Exhibition, Seattle Museum of Art, Washington, 1 990 | Iranian Collective Artists, Ackerman Hall Gallery UCLA, Los Angeles, 1 988 | Foreign Students Juried Exhibition, California College of the Arts, 1 987 | Drawing Department Juried Exhibition, California College of the Arts, 1 985 | AWARDS First Prize, 4th International Biennial of the Islamic World, Tehran, 2006 | SHAHAB FOTOUHI B. 1 980 currently lives and works in Tehran. He studied Fine Art at Städelschule, Frankfurt, 2008-201 0. His recent shows include “Establishing Shot; Interior, Night - Exterior, day; without Antagonist and Extra”, Azad Gallery, Tehran, (201 3), 7th Taipei Biennial (201 0), Home Works 5, Beirut (201 0), 4th Auckland Triennial (201 0), 1 1th Istanbul Biennial (2009) and “By the Horses Who Run Panting”, Azad Gallery, Tehran (2009). His videos have been 1 41

shown in “The Uncertainty Principle”, MACBA, Barcelona (2009) and “New Voices”, Barbican Center, London (2008).

EDUCATION Fine Art, Staedelschule, Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Frankfurt, 201 0 | School of Architecture and Urban Studies, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, 2000 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Internal Affairs, No. 1 3 Gallery, Tehran, 2007 | Toward Salvation, Rebell Minds Gallery, Berlin, 2005 | Still Life, No. 1 3 Gallery, Tehran, 2004 | A Few Centimeters Above Sea-Level, No. 1 3 Gallery, Tehran, 2002 | Census, Atisaz Building, No. 1 3 Gallery, Tehran, 2003 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 4th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, 201 0 | Taipei Biennial, Taipei, 201 0 | 1 1th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2009 | Red Thread, Tanas Gallery, Berlin, 2009 | Looped and Layered, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, 2009 | Raad o Bargh, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris, 2009 | In the State of Weightlessness, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran | June Begins May 29, Laleh June Galerie, Basel, 2008 | Loop, DNA Gallery, Barcelona, 2007 | Iran.com, Museum fur Neue Kunst, Freiburg 2006 | Art Without Borders, American Centre for Contemporary Experimental Arts, Yerevan, 2006 | Ethnic Marketing, Tirdad Zolghadr, Azad Gallery, Tehran, 2006 | Too Much Pollution to Demonstrate, Apexart Gallery, New York, 2005 | Victim, Niavaran Cultural Centre, Tehran, 2004 | 3rd New Art Exhibition, Student Club of Tehran University, Tehran | Iran Under the Skin, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona and Casa Asia, Barcelona, 2004 | Turning Point, LeRoy Gallery, Columbia University, New York , 2004 | New Art Exhibition, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2002 | First Exhibition of Conceptual Art, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2001 | At Five O’clock, Architecture Faculty, Tehran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, 1 999 | VIDEO SCREENINGS The Uncertainty Principle, MACBA, Barcelona, 2009 | Flowers, Art Dubai, Dubai, 2009 | Between a Rock and a Hard Place, PhotoCairo4, Cairo, 2008 | New Voices, Barbican Centre, London, 2008 | Thanks for Sharing: Films for an Art Fair, Art Dubai, Dubai, 2008 | DARA GALLOPIN B. 1 982 EDUCATION BA, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, Lausanne, 2009 | La Libera Accademia di Belle Arte, Rome University of Fine Arts, Rome, 2006 | Study, Madrid, 2005 | Study, Oxford, 2002 | Study, Cambridge, 2001 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Gallery Yabo-Yiyuan, Beijing, 201 1 | Gallery Mutoscope, Geneva, 2008 | Art et vision a la foire d’Art Accessible, Geneva, 2008 | Gallery IDA, Madrid, 2007 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, Rennens, 2009 | Gallery Mutoscope, Geneva, 2008 | Rome University of Fine Arts, Rome, 2008 | Stardust Gallery, Rome, 2007 | SHADI GHADIRIAN B. 1 974 EDUCATION BA Photography, Azad University, Tehran | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Queen Gallery, Canada, 201 1 | SilkRoad Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | Guild Art, Mumbai, 201 0 | Aeroplastics Contemporary, Belgium, 2009 | FCG Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, 2009 | Co2 Gallery, 1 42

Rome, 2009 | Boudin Lebon Gallery, Paris, 2009 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2008 | Silk Rad, Tehran, 2008 | Tasveer Gallery, India, 2008 | B21 Gallery, Dubai, 2007 | Photography Festival of Istanbul, Istanbul, 2007 | French Cultural Centre, Damascus, 2006 | Al Mamal Foundation 2, Jerusalem, 2006 | Villa Moda, Kuwait, 2002 | Exhibition of Fnac, France, 2001 | Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 1 999 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS The Elephant in the Dark, Devi Art Foundation, India, 201 2 | Iranian Perspectives, Richard Young Gallery, London, 201 2 | Light from the Middle East, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 201 2 | The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society, Art Gallery of the Princeton Arts Council, New Jersey, 201 2 | Evreux, Maison des Arts, France, 201 2 | Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia, 201 2 | The Other Half of Iran, SEMArt Gallery, Monaco, 201 2 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Isfahan, 201 2 | Iranian Art, Cite International des Arts, Paris, 201 2 | Majority World, Guardian Gallery, London, 201 2 | Biennial of Fashion Photography, Varazdin, 201 2 | Social Order, Women Photographers from Iran, India and Afghanistan, Photo Centre Northwest, Seattle, 201 2 | Pictorial Representations from the Arab World and Iran, Rose Issa Project, London, 201 2 | The French Cultural Centre in Yangon, Burma, 201 1 | PhotoEspana Festival, Madrid, 201 1 | Cool Art Cafe, Brussels, 201 1 | Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, 201 1 | Zendegi, Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon, 201 1 | Artespacio CAF, Bolivia, 201 1 | Staging Identity, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Switzerland, 201 1 | Face Contact, PhotoEspana, Madrid, 201 1 | Idols and Icons, Yavuz Fine Art, Singapore, 201 1 | Pool, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | Tehran Monoxide Project, Kherad School, Tehran | Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, 201 1 | Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna, 201 0 | Cmooa Gallery, Rabat, 201 0 | Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 0 | Stare at the Other Side, Albareh Art Gallery, Bahrain, 201 0 | Barakat, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, 201 0 | Waterhouse & Dodd, London, 201 0 | The Silk Road, Saatchi Gallery, Lille, 201 0 | Festival Images, Vevey, 201 0 | IRAN: Preview of the past, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 201 0 | Act of Faith, Abdijdmuseum Ten Duinen’ in Koksijde, Belgium, 201 0 | Mall Gallery, Masques of Shahrzad, London, 2009 | Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, 2009 | Italian School, Tehran 1 65 years of Iranian Photography, Du Quai Branly Museum, Paris, 2009 | Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1 969-2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, 2009 | Du Quai Branly Museum, Paris, 2009 | Routes, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, London, 2009 | Guild Art Gallery, New York, 2009 | Arario Gallery, New York, 2009 | The Seen and the Hidden, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, 2009 | Word Into Art, DIFC, Dubai, 2008 | Cramer Contemporary, Geneva, 2008 | Exprmntl Gallery, Toulouse, 2008 | Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, 2007 | La Paz, Bolivia, 2007 | San Diego Convention Centre, San Diego, 2007 | Silk Road, Tehran, 2007 | Blessed are the Merciful, Feigen Contemporary, New York, 2006 | Artspace Witzenhausen , Amsterdam, 2006 | The Veiled Mirror: Contemporary Iranian Photography, De Santos Gallery, Houston, 2006 | Word into Art : Artists of the Modern Middle East, The British Museum, London, 2006 | Image of Middle East, Danish Centre for Cultural Development, Denmark, 2006 | Ey Iran: Contemporary Iranian Photography, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, 2006 | Representation and Use of the Body in Art, Galerie Helene Lamarque, Paris, 2006 | Le Rectangle, Lyon, 2006 | Selyemes Fenyek, Budapest, 2006 | Inaugura en Tucuman, Mexico, 2006 | How Eastern Look at Western, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2005 | Rebel Mind Gallery, Berlin, 2005 | Foto Art Festival, Bielsko-Biala, 2005 | After the Revolution, San Sebastian, 2005 | Aeroplastics Gallery, Belgium, 2005 | N Gallery, Georgia,

2005 | Galata Fotografhanesi, Istanbul, 2005 | Boudin Lebon Gallery, Paris, 2005 | Third Line Gallery, Dubai, 2005 | San Jose Museum of Art, New York, 2004 | The House of World Cultures, Berlin, 2004 | Photo Biennale of Moscow, Moscow, 2004 | Parliament of Brussels, Brussels, 2004 | Photo Biennale of Luxemburg, Luxemburg, 2004 | Chobi Mela III, Bangladesh, 2004 | Harem Fantasies and the New Scheherzades, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2003 | Sharjah International Biennial 6, Sharjah, 2003 | Women in Orient - Women in Occident, Germany, 2003 | Konstmuseum Gothenburg, Gothenburg, 2003 | Ville De Boulogne, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 2003 | Veil Exhibition, The new Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2003 | Sorbonne University, Paris, 2003 | Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, 2002 | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2002 | Glimpses Of Iran, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, 2002 | A Space Gallery, Toronto, 2001 | Barbican Art Centre, London, 2001 | Photospania Festival, Spain, 2001 | Regards Persans, Espace Electra, Paris, 2001 | Inheritance, Leighton House Museum, London, 2000 | Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2000 | Ballymena Arts Festival, Northern Ireland, 2000 | The House of World Cultures, Berlin, 2000 | The Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation, Worth Ryder Gallery at University of California, Berkeley, 2000 | Leighton House Museum, London, 1 999 | Sooreh International Photo Exhibition, Tehran, 1 998 | Barg Gallery, Tehran, 1 998 | Aria Gallery, Tehran, 1 997 | Tehran International Documentary Photo Exhibition, Tehran, 1 997 | COLLECTIONS The British Museum, London | The Victoria and Albert Museum, London | LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles | The Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C. | Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris | Museum Modern Kunst Sitftung Ludwig, Vienna | Musee d’Art et d’Archeologie de la Ville d’Aurillac | Devi Art Foundation, India | Museum of contemporary Art, Tehran | KOUROSH GOLNARI B. 1 964 EDUCATION MA Advanced Studies in Art, Tehran University, 2000 | BA Sculpture, Tehran University, Tehran, 1 997 | High School Diploma in Architecture, Shiraz, 1 983 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Sovereign, Aun Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2009 | Something & Nothing, Khak Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | The Earth, a Place for Everyone, Environmental Work, Damavand, 2007 | Atrvash Gallery, Shiraz, 1 990 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Bounds of Meaning, Mellat Gallery, Tehran, 201 3 | The Art of Iran, Opera Gallery, Dubai, 201 3 | 1st Festival of Environmental Art, Laleh Park, Tehran, 201 2 | Earth and Sky, 1st group show of Iranian environmental artists, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, 201 2 | Without Borders, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, 201 2 | 1st Annual Exhibition of Iranian Artists’ Forum, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, 201 2 | Human and Contemporary approach, Fravahr Gallery, Tehran, 201 2 | Group by Mohammad Hossein Emad, Residence of Ambassador of Belgium, Tehran, 201 2 | A selection of contemporary sculpture in Iran, Fravahr Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | Recycle, 2nd Environmental Art Festival of Qazvin, Qazvin, 201 1 | Shadow, 2nd Environmental Art Festival of Shiraz, Shiraz, 201 1 | Three Generations of Iranian Sculptors, Fravahr Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | 1st Environmental Art Festival of Shiraz, Shiraz, 201 0 | 6th exhibition of miniature sculptures, Fravahr Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Iranian sculptors, Art Centre, Tehran, 201 0 | 1st Biennale of Urban Sculptures, Barg Art Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | Media

Exhibition, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, 2008 | Glimpses of Iranian Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, 2007 | 5th Biennale of Sculpture, Tehran, 2007 | 1 2th Asian Biennale, Dhaka, 2006 | Contemporary Sculptors from Iran, Esmeralda University, Mexico, 2006 | 4th Biennale of Sculpture, Tehran, 2005 | The Spiritual Art Exhibition, Niavaran Cultural Centre, Tehran, 2005 | Museum of Contemporary Arts, Abadan, 2005 | 3rd New Art Exhibition, Molavi Cultural Centre, Tehran, 2004 | Impressions of Nature in Artists’ Works, Gahan Nama Gallery, Tehran, 2003 | Group show of sculpture, Bahman Cultural Centre, Tehran, 2003 | Snow Sculpture Symposium, The Project “The sleep of Bam”, Tochal, Tehran, 2003 | Group exhibition of sculpture by graduated students of Tehran University, Tehran Gallery, Tehran, 2002 | Group exhibition by the professors of Art Department of Tehran University, Art Gallery, Tehran, 2001 | 2nd Biennial of Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, 1 999 | 1st Student Festival of Visual Arts, Art University, Tehran, 1 998 | 2nd Biennial of Art Students, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, 1 995 | 1st exhibition of art universities of Iran, Tehran University’s Central Library, Tehran, 1 993 | Festival of painting, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Shiraz, 1 989 | Group painting exhibition, Vesal Gallery, Shiraz, 1 987 | PROJECTS Greetings, Hakim Highway, Tehran, 201 3 | Pollination, Environmental Installation, Haghani Expressway, Tehran, 201 1 | AWARDS First Prize, 1st Biennale of Urban Sculpture, Barg Art Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | First Prize, 5th Biennale of Sculpture, Tehran, 2007 | First Prize, 4th Biennale of Sculpture, Tehran, 2005 | First Prize, 1st Student Festival of Visual Arts, Art University, Tehran, 1 998 | First Prize, 2nd Biennale of Art Students, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 1 995 | ROKNI HAERIZADEH B. 1 978 EDUCATION MA in Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran | BA in Fine Arts, University of Tehran | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Oh Victory! You Forgot Your Underwear, B21 Gallery, Dubai, 2009 | Tehran 206, Ave Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | Gol Andam and Bad Hijab, Galleri Artist, Istanbul, 2008 | The Donkey, the Pagan, the Bride, and Others, B21 Gallery, Dubai, 2008 | Dolme, Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 2006 | Paintings and Drawings by Rokni Haerizadeh, The Third Line, Dubai, 2006 | Khosrow and Shirin, Day gallery, Tehran, 2006 | Paintings by Rokni Haerizadeh, The Third Line, Dubai, 2005 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS About Painting, ABC Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin, 201 1 | Big Brother, L’Artiste Face aux Tyrans’, Palais des Arts et du Festival de Dinard, Dinard, 201 1 | Fictionville, Sharjah Biennal, Sharjah, 201 1 | Be Crowned with Laurel in Oblivion, Rokni & Ramin Haerizadeh & Bita Fayyazi, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, 201 0 | Crossing the Persian Gulf, curated by C. Merewether, Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong, 2009 | There Goes the Neighbourhood, collaboration with Bita Fayyazi, B21 Gallery, Dubai, 2009 | Raad-o-Bargh 1 7 Artists from Iran, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris, 2009 | Unveiled, New Art from the Middle-East, Saatchi Gallery, London. 2009 | 2009 ‘Looped and Layered’, group exhibition, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, 2009 | Within and Without, NoMoreGrey Gallery, Iranian Contemporary Art, London, 2007 | Wishes and Dreams, Iranian New Generation Emerges, Meridian International Center, Washington D.C., 2007 | Haft Negah, Niavaran Creation Centre, Tehran, 2007 | Iran.com Iranian art today, 1 43

Museum fur Neue Kunst, Freiburg, 2006 | Paintings and Drawings by Rokni Haerizadeh, The Third Line, Dubai, 2006 | Drawing facing Design, Homa Gallery, Tehran, 2006 | What film, Azad Gallery, Tehran, 2006 | Beijing Painting Biennale, Beijing; Mah Gallery, Tehran, 2005 | Second Generation, Assar art Gallery, Tehran, 2005 | Gardens of Iran, Tehran Contemporary Museum of Art, Tehran, 2004 | 4 Young Painters, Day Gallery, Tehran, 2004 | Lucky Charms, Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 2003 | On the Road, Tehran, 2003 | Environmental Art Exhibition, Polour, 2003 | Atashzad Gallery (Sajadeha), Tehran, 2002 | Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 2002 | Mural, German Embassy, Tehran, 2001 | Elahe Gallery, Tehran, 2000 | COLLECTIONS Rosenblum Collection, Paris | Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran | Charles Saatchi Collection, London | JP Morgan Collection, New York | Devi Art Foundation, Delhi | British Museum, London | Francois Pinault Collection, Dubai | Hafiz Foundation, Farjam Collection, Dubai | Rubell Family Collection, Miami | Farook Collection, Dubai | Salsali Private Museum, Dubai | SAHAND HESAMIYAN B. 1 977 EDUCATION BA in Sculpture, Tehran University, 2007 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Sulook, Third Line Gallery, Dubai, 201 3 | Memory Lives on, Aun Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | Do You See Me, Ave Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Summer Exhibition, AB Gallery, Lucerne, 201 3 | Sculpture by the Sea, Tangkrogen, Aarhus, 201 3 | Summer Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, 201 2 | Group Exhibition, Garden of the Belgium Ambassador, Tehran, 201 2 | Undone, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | Me Super Hero, Morono Kian Gallery, Los Angeles; Aaran Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | Selfdom, Haftsamer Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | The Fourth Year, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Three Generations of Iranian Sculptors, Fravahr Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Iran diverso: Black or White?, Verso Gallery, Turin, 201 0 | Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize, Royal College of Art, London, 2009 | The Seed of Baobab, Aaran Art Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | Manifest, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | Five Artists X 3 Dimensions, XVA Gallery, Dubai, 2008 | House of Artists, Tehran, 2008 | 1st Sculptural Biennial for Urban Space, Barg Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | Meraaj & Molavi, Imam Ali Museum, Tehran, 2007 | Small Sculptures, House of Artists, Tehran, 2007 | Selected Models of the 1st Tehran International Sculpture Symposium, Imam Ali Museum, Tehran, 2007 | 3rd Art, Sport, Olympic Biennial, Olympic Academy, Tehran, 2007 | 8th Contemporary Iranian Ceramic and Glass Biennial, Saba Cultural Center, Tehran, 2007 | Art of Resistance Exhibition, Tehran Contemporary Arts Museum, Tehran, 2006 | House of Artists, Tehran, 2006 | Sooreh Gallery, Tehran, 2006 | Tehran Gallery, Tehran, 2006 | Iranian Sculpture in Mexico, Mexico City, 2006 | House of Artists, Tehran, 2006 1st Exhibition of the Youth Handcrafts Arts, Saba Cultural Centre, Tehran, 2005 | Fajre Noor, Osveh Gallery, Tehran, 2005 | Ghanbeigi Gallery, Tehran, 2005 | 2nd Art, Sport, Olympic Biennial, Olympic Academy, Tehran, 2005 | 4th Tehran Contemporary Sculpture Biennial, Saba Cultural Centre, Tehran, 2005 | Atashzad Gallery, Tehran, 2004 | Khavaran Cultural Centre, Tehran, 2002 | AWARDS Finalist, Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize | 1st Place, 1st Tehran Steel Sculpture Symposium | 3rd Place, 1st Tehran International 1 44

Sculpture Symposium | 1st Place, Fajr e Noor Exhibition | Municipality Prize, 4th Contemporary Iranian Sculpture Biennial | SHEREE HOVSEPIAN B. 1 974 EDUCATION MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2002 | BA University of Toledo, Toledo, 1 999 | Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, 1 998 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Dome, Bischoff/Weiss, London, 201 3 | Haptic Wonders, Monique Melouche, Chicago, 201 2 | Column, Etemad Gallery, Dubai, 201 1 | Contact, Charest-Weinberg Gallery, Miami, 201 1 | Spare Room, West Street Gallery, New York, 201 0 | Portraits of Young Jewish Women, Spertus Museum, Chicago, 2009 | The Death of Pluto, NEIU University, Chicago, 2007 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Traces of Life, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, 201 3 | Farewell Rodney, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, 201 3 | Twenty Days Later, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, 201 2 | Photorealism, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London, 201 2 | West Street Gallery, New York, 201 2 | Brucennial, 201 2: Harderer, Betterer, Fasterer, Strongerer, 1 59 Bleecker Street, New York, 201 1 | Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian and Barbara Kasten, Moniquemeloche, Chicago, 201 0 | The Arbitrariness of Signs, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, 201 0 | Herd Thinner, Charest-Weinberg Gallery, Miami, 2009 | Harlem Postcards, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2009 | It Figures, Moniquemeloche, Chicago, 2009 | Emerge 1 0, Aljira Centre for Contemporary Art, Newark, 2009 | How Do I Look?

Moniquemeloche, Chicago, 2007 | The World is Flat, Lifebomb, Berlin, 2007 | Pan Sonic, NIU Gallery, Chicago, 2006 | GRANTS Aljira Emerge 1 0 Residency, Newark, 2008 | Community Arts Assistance Grant, Chicago, 2005 | Travel Grant, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, 2002 | Graduate Grant, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, 2000 | COLLECTIONS The Spertus Museum, Chicago | The Art Institute of Chicago | The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York | MORVARID B. 1 982 EDUCATION Ecole des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Heart Dish, Yavuz Fine Art, Singapore, 201 3 | L’effacement, Wonderwall, New Delhi, 201 3 | Fragile, Lure Melbourne, Melbourne, 2007 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Salwa Zeidan Gallery, Abu Dhabi, 201 3 | Magic of Persia Auction, Royal College of Art, London, 201 3 | Scope Art Basel, Salwa Zeidan Gallery, Basel, 201 3 | Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Salwa Zeidan Gallery, Abu Dhabi, 201 3 | Above the Streets; Twin Lives, Origin Fine Art, New Delhi, 201 2 | Idols and Icons, Yavus Fine Art Gallery, Singapore, 201 1 | COLLECTIONS Lespien Art Foundation, Dusseldorf | BABAK KAZEMI B. 1 983 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS A Report for D’Arcy, Silk Road Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 3 | 8 Year Persian Pickle, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 3 | Alice

in the land of Iran, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 2 | Suggested person to the group 5+1 , Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | Past Continuous, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | Gavmishabad, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | Woman, Mehrva Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | Gavmishabad Documentary, Mah-e Mehr, Tehran, 2008 | H2S, Mehrva Gallery, Tehran, 2007 | Shahid Mofateh University Gallery, Hamedan, 2003 | Self-Portraits, Young Cinema Society Gallery, Ahvaz, 2001 | Shalamche, Young Cinema Society Gallery, Ahvaz, 2000 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1 5th Islamic Arts Fetsival, Museum of Art, Sharjah, 201 3 | Auf Der Suche nach dem vermeintlichen Paradies, Rahmen der Vienna Art Week, Vienna, 201 2 | Tesselation make-up, Galerie Zeiberman/CDA Projects, Istanbul, 201 2 | Rybon International Artist Workshop, Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 2 | Come invest in us, You’ll strike gold, Brot Museum, Vienna, 201 2 | Fresh Air, Antwerp, 201 2 | Still Life, Seyhoon Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 2 | New perspectives in contemporary miniatures, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, 201 2 | Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize, Dubai, 201 1 | Iranian Pulse, Cultural Centre ‘Hello Future’, Rio de Janeiro, 201 1 | Naftoon, Tarahan-e-Azad gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | Television, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | 1 3. 1 8 Portrait, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | The other, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | The Southern Front, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Obligatory Military Service, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | The Kitchen, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | White & Black, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Indoor photography, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Ministry of Nomands, London, 201 0 | Revealing truths, Sultan Gallery, Kuwait, 2009 | Voice of Vision, Galerie Speos, Paris, 2009 | Paris Photo, Paris, 2009 | 1 01: Oil and its Aftermath, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | New Art: Political Prisoners, Saba Cultural Centre, Tehran, 2009 | Doubles, Mehrva Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | Image of the Year, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, 2008 | 1st Iranian Photography Expo, Esteghlal Hotel, Tehran, 2007 | Image of the Year, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, 2007 | Photography Biennale, Saba Cultural Centre, Tehran, 2006 | New Art: Khorramshahr, Saba Cultural Centre, Tehran, 2006 | Ashouraian, Akskhaneh Shahr Museum, Tehran, 2006 | Sea Photos, Saba Cultural Centre, Tehran, 2006 | Deeper Depression, Tehran Art Gallery, Tehran, 2005 | AWARDS Art Residency at Delfina Foundation, Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize, 201 2 | 1st Place Prize, Image of the Year, Tehran, 2007 | 1st Place Prize, Abrang Photo Festival, Mashhad, 2006 | 1st Place Prize, Resistance Art Festival, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2006 | 1st Place Prize, 2nd Black and White Iran Photo, Rasht Cultural Centre, Rasht, 2002 | COLLECTIONS Maraya Art Centre, Private Collection of Sheikh of Sharjah, Sharjah | The Museum of Contemporary Arts of Tehran, Tehran | The Museum of War, Tehran | AVISH KHEBREHZADEH B. 1 969 EDUCATION Philosophy, University of the District of Columbia, Washington D.C., 1 999 | Photography, Corcoran College of Art, Washington D.C., 1 998 | Painting, Accademia Di Belle Arti Di Roma, Rome, 1 996 | Mathematics, Azad University, Tehran, 1 991 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Sprovieri Gallery, London, 201 1 | Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, 2011 | Collins C. Diboll Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans,

201 1 | Backyard and Other Stories, RISD Museum, Providence, 2009 | Solace, So Old, So New, Forth Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, 2009 | Within and Without, Albion Gallery, London, 2009 | MACRO, Museum of the Contemporary Art, Rome, 2007 | Conner Contemporary Art, Washington D.C., 2006 | Videos in Progress, RISD Museum, Providence, 2006 | Blue Paintings, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, 2006 | Sweet Child in Time, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, 2005 | Conner Contemporary Art, Washington D.C., 2004 | Young Italian Art Award, 50th Biennale di Venezia- DARC, Venice Pavilion, 2003 | Viewers and the Circus, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York, 2002 | Amongst the trees, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, 2001 | Amongst the trees, Villa Frank Ludwigsburg, Murrhardt, 2001 | Swimmers, Circus, Wrestlers and Siesta, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, 1 999 | Studio Berbieri Arte Contemporanea, Venice, 1 998 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS HOME/LESS, Galleria Vistamare, Pescara, 2011 | MAXXI Arte/collection: The Vanishing Boundary, Rome, 2011 | Birds Eye View Film Festival, London, 2011 | New Frontier, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, 2011 | New Frontier, Salt Lake Art Centre, 2011 | Space, The Inauguration Exhibition for the MAXXI Museum, 2010 | The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, 2010 | Shudder, The Drawing Room, London, 2010 | Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, 2009 | Emotional Drawing, SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, 2009 | Raad O Baargh, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, 2009 | Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, 2008 | Bedun e Onvan 1, Barbican Centre, London, 2008 | Emotional Drawing, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 2008 | A Perspective on Contemporary Art: Emotional Drawing, The Nation Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2008 | Momentary Momentum: Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 2008 | The Geopolitics of the Animation, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, 2007 | Three Part Harmony: Definition, Delicacy, and Detail in Drawing, Curator’s Office, Washington, D.C., 2007 | Momentary Momentum: Animated Drawings, Parasol Unit, London, 2007 | Version Animee, Centre pour I’image Contemporaine Saint-Gervais, Geneva, 2006 | PULSE New York: International Contemporary Art Fair, 69th Regiment Armory, New York, 2006 | O Luna Tu, ARCOS Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Benevento, 2005 | Sketch in Motion, Sketch Gallery, London, 2005 | Transparenze, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, 2005 | Telltale, Ewha Art Center, Seoul, 2005 | Artissima, Conner Contemporary Art, Turin, 2005 | Cave Birds, Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan, 2004 | Persian Gardens, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2004 | Mediterraneans, MACRO Museum of the Contemporary Art, Rome, 2004 | Frieze, London, 2004 | The Cologne Kunst Film Biennale, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, 2003 | Movements of Stories, The Brno House of Arts, Czech, 2003 | From Dusk to Dust, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, 2003 | Animations, Kunst Werke, Berlin, 2003 | Charles Avery, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Richard Woods, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, 2003 | The Hidden Half: Iranian Woman Directors, Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2003 | Desire, Curator: Peter Weiermair, Galleria D’Arte Moderna, Bologna, 2002 | Desire, Munich, 2001 | Opere Su Carta, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, 2001 | Chairs in Contemporary Art, Civici Musei Del Castello, Udine, 2001 | Animations, P.S.1, New York, 2001 | God is in the Details, Contemporary Museum in Geneva, 2001 | Tirannicidi, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 2000 | ANeMOTION, Castello Colonna, Genazzano, 2000 | Waterfront, Vikingsberg Art Museum, Helsingborg, 2000 | Conversione di Saulo, Palazzo Odescalchi, Rome, 2000 | 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 1999 | Colombo, Istanbul, 1999 | AWARDS Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, 2012 | Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship 2011 | DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities; Artist Fellow, 2010 | 50th Biennale di Venezia, Leone d’Oro; Prize for the best Italian Young Artist, 2003 | 1 45

COLLECTIONS RISD Museum, Providence | MACRO Museum, Rome | MAXXI Museum, Rome | MONA, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania | Art in Embassies Program, US Consulate, Mumbai | Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. | ABBAS KIAROSTAMI B. 1 940 EDUCATION Painting and Graphic Design, Tehran University of Fine Arts, Tehran | SELECTED FILMS Like Someone in Love, 201 2 | Meeting Leila, 201 2 | Certified Copy, 201 0 | Ten, 2002 | The Wind Will Carry Us, 1 999 | A Taste of Cherry, 1 997 | Safar, 1 996 | The White Balloon, 1 995 | Through the Olive Trees, 1 994 | Close-Up, 1 990 | Homework, 1 990 | Where is my Friend’s House, 1 987 | SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Snow White, Boom Gallery, Tehran, 201 3 | Snow White, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong, 201 3 | Pari Nadimi Gallyer, Toronto, 201 1 | Parviz Tanavoli and Abbas Kiarostami, Meem Gallery, 201 0 | Purdy Hikcs Gallery, London, 2009 | Trees and Crows, Meem Gallery, Dubai, 2009 | A Window to Life, Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | University of California Berkeley Art Museum; Pacific Film Archive; Los Angeles County Museum, 2007 | Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, 2007 | PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York, 2007 | Iranian Art Foundation, New York, 2006 | Trees in Snow, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2005 | Trees in Snow, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, 2005 | Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2004 | Andrea Rosen Gallery, 2000 | AWARDS Glory to the Filmmaker Award, Venice Film Festival, 2008 | World’s Great Masters Award, Kolkata International Film Festival, 2007 | Prix Henri-Langlois Prize, 2006 | The Gold Leopard of Honour, Locarno Film Festival, 2005 | Fellowship of the British Film Institute, 2005 President of the Jury for the Camera d’Or Award, Cannes Festival, 2005 | Konrad Wolf Prize, 2003 | Akira Kurosawa Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Directing, San Francisco Film Festival, 2000 | Honorary Golden Alexander Prize, Thessaloniki Film Festival, 1 999 | Silver Lion, Venice Film Festival, 1 999 | Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival, 1 997 | Federico Fellini Gold Medal. UNESCO, 1 997 | Pier Paolo Pasolini Award, 1 995 | Francois Truffaut Award, 1 993 | Prix Cine Decouvertes, 1 992 | Prix Roberto Rossellini, 1 992 | BEHDAD LAHOOTI B. 1 976 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Aaran Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Aaran Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | Ghanoun Gallery, Ibn Sina Cultural Centre Tehran, 2004 | Sarv Gallery, Tehran, 2002 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Farjam Collection, Dubai, 201 0 | IRAN DiVERSO: Black Or White? VERSO Artecontemporanea, Torino, 201 0 | Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Museum of Art, New York, 2009 | Seeds of Baobab, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | Multimedia, Artist Forum, Tehran, 2008 | Environmental Art Exhibition, Toochal Mountains, Tehran, 2008 | Tehran Biennale of Sculptor, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2007 | Izmir Biennale, Izmir, 2007 | AHMAD MORSHEDLOO B. 1 973 EDUCATION MA in Painting, Tehran University of Art, 2001 | 1 46

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Ahmad Morshedloo, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, 2007 | Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, 2006 | Tarahan-e Azad Gallery, Tehran, 2005 | Aria Gallery, Tehran, 2004 | Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, 2004 | Aria Gallery, Tehran, 2003 | Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, 2002 | Tarahan-e Azad Gallery, Tehran, 2001 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS La Route de la Soie, Tri Postal, 201 0 | The Saatchi Gallery Collection, Lille, 201 0 | Mah Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | In and Out, Project B Contemporary Art, Milan, 201 0 | Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Mah Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | Iran Inside Out, CAM, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2009 | In The Mood for Paper, F2 Gallery, Beijing, 2009 | Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, The Saatchi Gallery, London, 2009 | Mah Art Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | Naqsh, An Insight into Gender and Role Models in Iran, Pergamon Museum, Berlin, 2008 | Mah Gallery, Tehran, 2007 | The Saatchi Gallery, London, 2006 | ALI MOUSAVI B. 1 977 EDUCATION MA Fine Art and Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Kingston University, London, 201 3 | MA in Aesthetics and Art Theory, CRMEP, Kingston University, London, 201 3 | Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory, CRMEP, Kingston University, London, 201 3 | BA Fine Art, Plymouth University, Plymouth, 201 0 | Foundation Degree in Photography and Digital Arts, Exeter University, Exeter, 2009 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Invisible People, Picture House Cinema, Exeter, 201 0 | Art Works, Exeter Phoenix Art Gallery, Exeter, 201 0 | Invisible Landscape, Picture House Cinema, Exeter, 2009 | Untitled, Central Library, Exeter, 2008 | Strangers into Citizens, Refugee Support Group, Devon, 2006 | Untitled, Art Centre Gallery, Torrington, 2006 | Untitled, Exeter College, Exeter, 2005 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, 201 2 | Collective, Student Group exhibition, Exeter Castle, Exeter, 201 0 | Untitled, Student Group Exhibition, John Gandy’s, Exeter, 2009 | SHIRIN NESHAT B. 1 957 SELECTED SOLO EXHBITIONS Written on the Body, Espacia Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, 201 3 | Shirin Neshat, Dirimart, Istanbul, 201 3 | The Book of Kings, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, 201 3 | Shirin Neshat, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 201 3 | The Book of Kings, Gladstone Gallery, New York | The Book of Kings, Galerie Jermone du Noirmont, Paris, 201 2 | Women Without Men, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 201 1 l Games of Desire, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, 2009 l Games of Desire, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, 2009 l Women Without Men, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 2009 l Turbulent, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, 2009 | Shirin Neshat, Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2008 l Shirin Neshat: New Works, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, 2008 l National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, 2008 | Secret of the Veil, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, 2006 l Shirin Neshat, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, 2006 l Zarin, Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2005 l Shirin Neshat, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum Fur Gengewart, Berlin, 2005 l La Ulitma Palabra/Last Word, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Leon, 2005 l Through the Eyes of Shirin Neshat, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, 2004 l Tooba Asia Society Museum, New York, 2003 l Shirin Neshat, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico

City, 2003 l Shirin Neshat, Tensta Konstall, Spanga, 2003 | Shirin Neshat, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, 2002 l Shirin Neshat, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2002 l Shirin Neshat, Centre Cultural Banco di Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2002 l Shirin Neshat, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, 2002 l Shirin Neshat, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, 2002 | Shirin Neshat, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Miami Art Museum, Miami, 2001 | Shirin Neshat, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2001 l Shirin Neshat, Patrick Painter, Santa Monica, 2001 l Shirin Neshat, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2001 l Shirin Neshat, Kanazawa Contemporary Art Museum, Kanazawa, 2001 l Shirin Neshat, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 2001 l Shirin Neshat, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2000 l Shirin Neshat, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2000 | Shirin Neshat, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, 2000 | Concentrations 34: Shirin Neshat, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2000 | FOCUS: Shirin Neshat, Rapture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1 999 | Shirin Neshat: Rapture, Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles, 1 999 | Shirin Neshat: Rapture, D’Amelio Terras, New York, 1 999 | Shirin Neshat: Rapture, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, 1 999 | Shirin Neshat, Tate Gallery, London, 1 998 | Shirin Neshat: Turbulent, Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York, 1 998 | Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, 1 998 | Shirin Neshat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1 995 |Unveiling, Franklin Furnace, New York, 1 993 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 201 3 | Legacy: Photographs from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 201 3 | All You Need is Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 201 3 | Voice of Images, Palazzo Grassi-Francoise Pinault Foundation, Venice, 201 2 | TRA. Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, 201 1 l I Know Something About Love, 201 1 l Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 201 0 | The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, Cheim & Read, New York, 2009 | Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men, Prospect. 1: New Orleans International Biennial, New Orleans, 2008 l ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Centre of Photography, New York, 2003 | Documenta 1 1 , Kassel, 2002 | Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, 2002 | Visions from America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2002 | Biennial de Valencia, Valencia, 2001 | Sharing Exoticisms, Lyon Biennial, Lyon, 2000 | La Beaute en Avignon, Avignon, 2000 | 1 2th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, 2000 | Man and Space: 3d, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, 2000 | Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2000 | Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2000 | Project 70: Shirin Neshat, Simon Patterson, Xu Bing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1 999 | 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1 999 | 48th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 1 999 | La Ville, Le Jardin, la Memoire Villa Medici, Rome, 1 999 | Global Art Rheinland 2000, Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne, 1 999 | SITE Santa Fe: Looking For A Place, Santa Fe, 1 999 | Zeitwenden: Ruckblick und Ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, 1 999 | Heavenly Figure, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, 1 999 | 5th International Istanbul Biennale: On Life, Beauty, Translations and Other Difficulties, Istanbul, 1 998 | Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, 1 997 | Auf Den Leib, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 1 996 | Anchorage, Video

Installation, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1 996 | Orientation, 4th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 1 995 | Transculture, Venice Biennale, Venice, 1 995 | Contemporary Art Museum, Okayama, 1 995 | Campo ’95, Venice Biennial 95, Venice, 1 995 | Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 1 995 | It’s How You Play the Game, Exit Art, New York, 1 995 | Beyond the Borders: Art By Recent Immigrants, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, 1 994 | Fever, Exit Art Gallery, New York; Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus; Alejandro Otero Museum of Visual Arts, Caracas, 1 992 | AWARDS Silver Lion, 66th Venice Film Festival, 2009 | Cinema for Peace Special Award, Hessischer Filmpreis, Germany, 2009 | Lillian Gish Prize, New York, 2006 | Hiroshima Art Prize, Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan, 2005 | Grand Prix, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea, 2000 | First International Prize, 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, 1 999 | Prize for Best Project, ARCO, Madrid, 1 999 | NICKY NODJOUMI B. 1 942 EDUCATION MFA, City College of New York, 1 974 l BA, Tehran University of Fine Arts, Tehran, 1 967 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Chasing the Butterfly, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, 201 3 | Educating the Horse, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, 201 0 l The Formulaic Nature of Appearances, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, 2009 l Triumph of Tradition, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, 2006 l Interactive Game, Thom Andriola/New Gallery, Houston, 2005 l Homa Gallery, Tehran, 2005 l Private Agenda, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, 2004 l Aria Gallery, Tehran, 2004 l Paintings, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, 2003 l Paintings, Stefan Stux Gallery, Project Room, New York, 2001 l Pierogi 2000, New York, 1 999 l Studio 24, New York, 1 997 l Artists Space, New York, 1 993 l Pictogram Gallery, New York, 1 985 l Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 1 984 l The Alternative Museum, New York, 1 983 l Retrospective, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 1 980 l Shahr Gallery, New York, 1 978 l Roko Gallery, New York, 1 976 l Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran, 1 976 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Iran Modern, Asia Society Museum, New York, 201 4, Upcoming | Tale Spinning, Bates College Museum of Art, 201 1 l One Thousand and One Nights: the Narrative Tradition in Contemporary Middle Eastern Art, Wayne, 201 0 l Iran Inside Out, DePaul University Museum, Chicago, 2009 l Epic Painting, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, 2009 l 547 West 27th Street, 2nd floor, New York, 2009 l Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2009 l Chelsea Visits Havana, 1 0th Havana Biennial, Museo del Bellas Artes, Havana, 2009 l Conference of the Birds, Leila Heller Gallery, London, 2008 l 5th Annual Immigrant Heritage Week, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2008 l Tango, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, 2004 l Momus Gallery, New York, 2003 l East Village Now & Then: 20 Year Anniversary, Studio 1 8 Gallery, New York, 2003 l New York in Texas, New Gallery, Houston, 2003 l 20th Anniversary Celebration: Stefan Stux Gallery, New Gallery, Houston, 2003 l Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, 2003 l Tribeca Open Artists Studio Tour, New York, 2001 l Maison Française, Columbia University, New York, 2000 l Pierogi 2000, New York, 2000 l Centre for Iranian Modern Arts, New York, 1 999 l Pierogi 2008, New York, 2008 l Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2008 l The Lobby Gallery at Deutsche Bank, New York, 1 998 l Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, 1 998 l Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1 998 l Bard College, New York, 1 998 l Vassar College, New York, 1 998 1 47

LEILA PAZOOKI B. 1 977 EDUCATION MA Universitat der Kunste, Berlin, 2009 | MA in Sculpture, KHB, Weissensee Kunst Hochschoule, Berlin, 2007 | MA in New Media, Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Munich, 2002 | BA in Painting, State University of Arts, Tehran, 2000 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Magical Thoughts, Laggeng Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, 201 2 | Untitled, Gallery Ernst Hilger, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, 201 1 | Fair Trade, Gallery Christian Hosp, Berlin, 201 1 | Two Minute Photo, B21 Gallery, Dubai, 2009 | Pixel Diary, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, 2006 | Photocollage, Silkroad Gallery, Tehran, 2004 | Hydromania, Silkroad Gallery, Tehran, 2003 | Barg Gallery, Tehran, 1 998 | Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 1 996 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Summer Selects, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 3 | The Space Between: Contemporary perspectives on tradition and society, Middle East Centre for the Arts (MECA), Jersey City, 201 3 | Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Roaming Images, Thessaloniki, 201 2 | The Global Contemporary Art Worlds After 1 989, ZKM Museum, Berlin, 201 2 | Westend, Museum of the Seam, Jerusalem, 201 2 | Elephant in the Dark, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, 201 2 | New Positions, Participant Finalist, Art Cologne, Cologne, 201 2 | See the Light, Louis Vuitton Boutique, Hong Kong, 201 1 | Illumination, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 0 | Bild Texte, Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna, 201 0 | One Year, Gallery Christian Hosp, Berlin, 201 0 | Photo Ablum, The Archivist’s Impatience, The LOFT, Mumbai, 201 0 | The Augmented Flaws, Kunstagenten Gallery, Berlin, 2009 | Promise of Loss, Ernst Hillger Gallery, Vienna, 2009 | Iran Inside Out, The Chelsea Art Museum, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 2009 | Bay Area Now 5, Yerba Buena Centre for Art, San Francisco, 2008 | Comportamientos, Muestra Internacional de Video Arte, Cali, 2008 | Contemporaneo, Faculty of Fine Arts, Cali, 2008 | Ey! Iran, Contemporary Iranian Photography and Video, Touring exhibition, New Zealand and Australia, 2008 | I’m Longing and I don’t Know for What, Parallel Moments, interdisciplinary Project in House of Iranian Artists, Azad Gallery, Tehran, 2007 | Persian Vision, Touring Exhibition, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca; Art Gallery of the University of Maryland, College Park; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson; Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu; Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago; Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, 2007 | Close Up II, Casa Vecina, 2006 | IRAN BAJO LA PIEL, Casa Asia, CCCB, Barcelona, 2004 | Second Iranian Photography Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2004 | COLLECTIONS Devi Art Foundation, India | Nadour Collection, Germany | Langgeng Art Foundation, Indonesia | Boghossian Foundation, Belgium | Farook Collection, Traffic Art Centre, United Arab Emirates | Salsali Private Museum, United Arab Emirates | SHAHPOUR POUYAN B. 1 979 EDUCATION MFA, New Forms, Pratt Institute, New York, 201 2 | MFA Painting, University of Tehran, Tehran, 2007 | Neoplatonism studies program by Professor Yegane Shayegan, Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Tehran, Iran, 2005 | BFA Painting, Art University, Tehran, 2004 | Math and Physics Diploma, Elmieh School of Tehran, Iran, 2000 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Full Metal Jacket, Lawrie Sahbibi Gallery, 1 48

Dubai, 201 1 | The Hooves, 66 Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Bana Bar, Nar Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | XVA Gallery, Dubai, 2009 | Towers, Ave Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2008 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Traces, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, UAE, 201 3 | For Which it Stands, The Lodge Gallery, NY, USA, 201 3 | Chambres à Part VII: Dark to Light, Tower of London, London, England, 201 3 | Art 1 3 London, Olympia Grand Hall, London, England, 201 3 | ArtCycle Discovers: MFA Prize, Gallery Brooklyn, NY, USA, 201 3 | Nearly Neutral, Barbara Walters Gallery, NY, USA, 201 3 | Pulse Art Fair, Lawrie Shabibi, Miami, USA, 201 2 | Video-therapy, Session One: Recovery, Pratt Institute, New York, 201 2 | Dialoge: Shahour Pouyan + Marwan Sahmarani, Art Basel. Volta 8, Basel, 201 2 | Pulse Art Fair, Lawrieshabibi, New York, 201 2 | Curate NYC Project, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, 201 2 | Centrefold 8, Zabludowicz Art Projects, London, 201 2 | Domination, Hegemony and the Panopticon, Traffic, Dubai, 201 2 | Artbeat Istanbul, Centre Lutif Kirdar, Istanbul, 201 1 | Contemporary Sculpture and the Liability of Forms: The Expo 90, Tehran, 201 1 | State Gallery of Fine Arts, Hyderabad, 201 1 | Performance Box Curatorship, Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | The Emerging Iranian Scene, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, 201 0 | Total Arts, The Courtyard, Dubai, 201 0 | Sous Le Radar, JTM Gallery, Paris, 201 0 | Under the Radar Revelation, 66 Gallery, Paris, 201 0 | 1 389, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Baz in che Shouresh Ast, Video Project, Silkroad Art Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | 1 001 Colours, Canvas Gallery, New York, 2009 | The 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Urban Jealousy, Belgrade, 2009 | Auto Portraits, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | Nar Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | Third International Digital Miniprint Exhibition, Le Centre d’Artistes Voix Visuelle, Ottawa, 2008 | 1 00 Paintings- 1 00 Painters, Golestan Art Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | MFA Students of Tehran University, Laleh Art Gallery, Tehran, 2005 | Tehran Art Expose, Tehran, 2004 | Tehran Art Colleges Students Paintings, Niavaran Culture House Gallery, Tehran, 2003 | Teachers and Students of Science and Culture University, Bahman Art and Culture House, Tehran, 2003 | AWARDS AND GRANTS ArtCycle Prize, Finalist and Second Award, Gallery, Brookyln, USA, 201 3 | Pegasus Art Foundation Residency at Rock Art Gallery, Hyderabad, 201 1 | Recipient of a Tehran Contemporary Museum of Art’s Grant, International Cite Des Arts, Paris, 2007 | BIENNALE Mykonos Biennale, Mykonos Island, Greece, 201 3 MYRIAM QUIEL B. 1 974 EDUCATION Foerderpreis des Freundeskreises der Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste Dresden, Dresden, 2003 | Fine Art, Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, Dresden, 2003 | Art History, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, 1 998 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Myriam Quiel, Gallery Lake, Oldenburg, 201 1 | Myriam Quiel Painting, Gallery Etemad, Tehran, 201 0 | Myriam Quiel Painting, Gallery Etemad, Tehran, 2009 | Myriam Quiel, Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, 2008 | Missed Call, Gallery Doerrie & Priess, Hamburg, 2008 | War in the Livingroom, Gallery Doerrie & Priess, Berlin, 2007 | Foerderpreis der Oeffentlichen Versicherungen Art Foundation, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Oldenburg, 2007 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS The Swimming Pool, Gallery Mohsen, Tehran, 201 1 | 1 2 Cubed, Gallery Aun, Tehran, 201 0 | Magic of Persia, Charity

Auction Christie’s, Dubai, 2009 | Impulse, Gallery Loehrl, Moenchengladbach, 2008 | Magic of Persia, Charity Auction, Dubai, 2007 | Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen, Gallery Doerrie & Priess, Berlin, 2006 |Gallery Doerrie & Priess, Hamburg, 2006 | SARA RAHBAR B. 1 976 EDUCATION Central Saint Martins Collage of Art and Design, London, 2005 | The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, 2000 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Restless Violence, Carbon 1 2, Dubai, 201 2 | I have no faith left for the devil to take, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, 201 1 | Whatever we had to lose we lost, and in a moonless sky we marched, Carbon 1 2, Dubai, 201 0 | Contradicting Realities: Recent Works by Sara Rahbar, Tyler Art Gallery, Suny Oswego, New York, 2009 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Global Warming, MannheiMer Kunstverein, Mannheimer, 201 3 | Tales of Another Identity, LARM Galleri, Copenhagen, 201 3 | Sharjah Biennial 1 1 , Re:emerge Towards a New Cultural Cartography, Sharjah, 201 3 | The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow & Queensland Art Gallery Queensland, Brisbane, 201 2 | Come Invest in Us Youll Strike Gold, Hilger BROT Kunsthalle, Vienna, 201 2 | Q Contemporary,Forward, Beirut, 201 2 | SEX, DUI’s and VIDEOTAPE II, Brot-Kunsthalle, Vienna, 201 2 | Life is too short, Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, 201 2 | Gloria Berlin, Der arge Weg der Erkenntnis, Berlin, 201 2 | Nose Bleed, Fuse Gallery, New York, 201 2 | SEX, DUI’s and VIDEOTAPE, New York, 201 2 | The elephant in the dark, The Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, 201 2 | Show Off, Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, 201 1 | It aint fair: Materialism, OHWOW, Miami, 201 1 | Activating Medi(t) ation, Examining Asian Cultural Perspectives in the M-shaped Age, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, 201 1 | Freedom to Create, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, 201 1 | The Istanbul Summer Exhibition, Sanat Limani-Antrepo 5, Istanbul, 201 1 | WestEnd, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, 201 1 | Art As Witness, Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institute/ Max Muller, New Delhi, 201 1 | Freedom to Create, Ana Tzarev Gallery, New York, 201 1 | Freedom to Create, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, 201 1 | The Freedom to Create, Cairo Opera House, Cairo, 201 0 | The Silk Road, Lille3000/Tri Postal, Lille, 201 0 | The State, Traffic Gallery I, Dubai, 201 0 | The Unbearable Lightness of being, Carbon 1 2 Dubai, 201 0 | Die obscure objects of my desire, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, 201 0 | Hope!, At the palais des arts et du festival Dinard, 201 0 | Iran Inside Out, The Farjam Collection, Dubai, 201 0 | Elles@centrepompidou, The Centre Pompidou, Paris, 201 0 | Never Run Away, Reena Kallat and Sara Rahbar, Stux Gallery, New York, 201 0 | The Promise of Loss, A Contemporary Index of Iran, Arario Gallery New York , 201 0 | Eye of the Beholder, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, New York, 201 0 | The Edible Woman, Kravets /Wehby Gallery, New York, 2009 | The Promise of Loss, A Contemporary Index of Iran, brot-kunsthalle, Vienna, 2009 | Iran Inside out: Influences of Homeland and Disaporic realities, Artists, DePaul University Museum, Chicago, 2009 | The Seen and the Hidden: (Dis)covering the Veil, The Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, 2009 | Iran Inside out: Influences of Homeland and Disaporic realities, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2009 | Collective de 5 artistes Iranians, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, 2009 | Sara Rahbar-Love arrived and how red, Recent works, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, 2009 | Unveiled: New art from the Middle East, The Saatchi Gallery, London, 2009 | Artist in Exile, Arario Gallery, New York, 2009 | Indian Popular Culture,

and beyond: The Untold (the rise of) Schisms, Sala AlcalAƒA¡ 31 Madrid, 2009 | What was the word I want, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, 2008 | Look what love did to us once again, Cramer Contemporary, Geneva, 2008 | In Transition Russia, National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2008 | In Transition Russia, Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg, 2008 | Everywhere is War (and rumors of war). Bodhi Art, Mumbai, 2008 | On a clear day you can see forever, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, 2008 | Emerging Discourse: Multiple and Overlapping Contemplations from the Diaspora, Bodhi Art, New York, 2008 | Raid Projects, Los Angeles, 2008 | This Case of Conscience Spiritual Flushing and the Remonstrance, Queens Museum of Art, New York, 2008 | Regional Delicacies, XVA gallery, Bastakiya, Dubai, 2008 | Human Rights Awareness Tour, Traveling Exhibition, 2008 | The Veil: Visible and invisible spaces, Traveling Exhibition, 2008 | Persian Arts Festival: Weaving the Common Thread, Queens Museum of Art, New York, 2008 | Continuity and Change: Islamic Tradition in Contemporary Art, The Williamsburg Art and Historical Centre, New York, 2007 | Hyphenation Exhibition, University of Maryland, Union Gallery, College Park, 2007 | COLLECTIONS The Centre Pompidou, Paris | Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane | National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan | The Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon | The Burger Collection, Hong Kong | Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah | Salsali Private Museum, Dubai | The Farook Collection, Dubai | The Farjam Collection, Dubai | Collection Nadour, Rudiger K. Weng, Krefeld, Paris | University, Tehran, 2003 | EXHIBITIONS In the Currents, Bay Area Iranian/American Art Today, Oakland, 201 2 | The Mask & The Mirror, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 1 | La Jeune Scene Artistique Iranienne, Gallery RX, Paris, 201 1 | Sous le Radar, JTM Gallery, Paris, 201 0 | FIAC Art Fair, Paris, 201 0 | KEYVAN SABER B. 1 968 EDUCATION MA in Visual Communication, Azad University of Tehran, Tehran, 1 995 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Photography Exhibition, Scene Interieure Gallery, 2008, Paris | Drawing Exhibition, Scene Interieur Gallery, Paris, 2007 | Photography Exhibitions, Baran Gallery, Tehran, 2005 | Photography Exhibition, Baran Gallery, Tehran, 2004 | Visual Arts Exhibition, Ghanbeigi Gallery, Tehran, 2004 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Le Collectif Des Createurs, La Galerie Afaprod, Paris, 201 3 | Photography Exhibition, Scene Interieure Gallery, Paris, 2009 | Photography and Drawing Exhibition, Scene Interieure Gallery, 2006 | Drawing Exhibition, Tehran University Gallery, Tehran, 2003 | Painting Exhibition, Iranians Artists Forum, Mashhad, 1 999 | Painting Exhibition, Iranians Artists Forum, Isfahan, 1 999 | Painting Exhibition, Iranians Artists Forum, Shahroud, 1 998 | Photography Exhibition, Azad University Gallery, Tehran 1 997 | Drawing Exhibition, Iranian Artists Forum, Hamedan, 1 997 | BAHAR SABZEVARI B. 1 980 EDUCATION BA Fine Arts, University of Paris, 2008 | BA French, Alzahra University, Tehran, 2003 | 1 49

EXHIBITIONS In the Currents, Bay Area Iranian/American Art Today, Oakland, 201 2 | The Mask & The Mirror, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 1 | La Jeune Scene Artistique Iranienne, Gallery RX, Paris, 201 1 | Sous le Radar, JTM Gallery, Paris, 201 0 | FIAC Art Fair, Paris, 201 0 | BEHNAM SADIGHI B. 1 979 EDUCATION BA in Photography, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Tehran, 2008 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Holidays, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, 201 3 | Ekbatan, West of Tehran, Faryad Gallery, Kerman, 201 1 | Ekbatan, West of Tehran, Gallery of Hoze Honari, Shiraz, 201 0 | Ekbatan, West of Tehran, Gallery of Hoze Honari Guilan, Rasht, 201 0 | Ekbatan, West of Tehran, Aria Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | Life in Bam, Iranian Artist Forum Gallery, Tehran, 2004 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize Shortlist Exhibitions, EFT Towers, Dubai, 201 3 | Art takes Times Square, Billboard Presentation, New York, 201 2 | Presence, Aria Gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | National Museum of Fine Art, Bishkek, 201 1 | Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Photography and Installation, Boomerang Art Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Portrait in Photography and Painting, Molaeian Gallery, Babol, 2008 | Self Portrait of Photographers, Gallery of Iranian Photographers Centre, Tehran, 2007 | Nowrouz, Laleh Gallery, Tehran, 2006 | AWARDS 1st Prize, 4th Mashhad National Photo Festival, 201 2 | 1st Prize, 2nd Hamrahan Festival, Rasht, 201 1 | 1st Prize, 3rd Photo Festival of Islamic Azad University, 201 0 | 2nd Prize, Festival of Iranian Young Cinema Society, Oroumieh, 2009 | 3rd Prize, Firouzeh Festival, Tabriz, 2008 | 2nd Prize, Black and White Festival, Tehran, 2008 | 3rd Prize, For Better Life Festival, Tehran, 2007 | 1st Prize, Tehran’s Film and Photo Festival of Students, 2007 | 1st Prize, Environment Contest, Tehran, 2007 | 2nd Prize, Health Photo Contest, 2007 | 3rd Prize, Documentary Photo Contest of Iran, Isfahan, 2007 | Honourable Mention, Kaveh Golestan Press Photo Contest, 2006 | 3rd Prize, Annual Photo Contest, Rasht, 2006 | 1st Prize, Abrang Festival, Mashhad, 2005 | 1st Prize, Palms of Hope Festival, Tehran, 2004 | 2nd Prize, Festival of Iranian Young Cinema Society, Qazvin, 2003 | 2nd Prize, Annual Photo Contest of Iran, Rasht, 2003 | 1st Prize, Humour Festival of Hozeye Honari, Tehran, 2003 | 1st Prize, Ghasedak Have Soukhteh, Tehran, 2002 | 1st Prize, Our City Photo Contest, Tehran, 2002 | KOUROSH SALEHI B. 1 964 EDUCATION Royal Institute of British Architects, 1 996 | MA Art and Architecture, London, 1 993 | BSc Architecture, London, 1 985 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Turquoise Letters, Ideal Generation Gallery, London, 2009 | Tarragon Fields, (collection of 3 video art films) Maverick Gallery, London, 2008 | Still Waters, Lumier Cinema, London, 2003 | Water Water, Kufa Gallery, London, 2001 | The Big Yellow, Leighton House gallery, London, 1 998 | Water + Earth, Kufa gallery, London, 1 993 | Infinite is Nothing, Polish Cultural Centre, London, 1 986 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Dubai Art, Dubai, 201 1 | Truth Exhibition, Salwa Zeidan Gallery, Abu Dhabi, 201 1 | Breakfast in Tehran, Frameless Gallery, London, 201 1 | Art Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, 201 1 | Exhibition of 1 50

Video Art, Katara Gallery, Qatar, 201 1 | Architect Artists, London and Paris, 1 998 | School of African and Oriental Studies, London, 1 997 | Architect Artists, London, 1 996 | Architect Artists, Paris and London, 1 995 | Architect Artists, London and Amsterdam, 1 994 | Architect Artists, Paris and London, 1 993 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, 1 993 | Architect Artists, London, 1 992 | Oxford University, Oxford, 1 992 | Venice Biennale, Venice, 1 985 | AWARDS 1 of 20 Artists Selected by the British Museum, 201 0 | Appointed as ‘Fellow Member’ for Society of Architect Artists, 1 994 | Young Artist of the Year Award, Iran, 1 977 | HADIEH SHAFIE B. 1 969 EDUCATION MFA Imaging and Digital Art University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, 2004 | MFA Painting Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1 999 | BA Painting University of Maryland, College Park, 1 993 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Ketabeh Eshghe (Book of Love), Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, 201 1 | Ketab (Book), XVA Gallery, Dubai, 201 1 | Sweet Turning of the Page, Morton Fine Art, Washington D.C., 201 1 | Some Kind of Love, Jean Efron Art Consultants, Washington D.C., 201 0 | Paper Pattern Colour Culture, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, 2009 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Jameel Prize Exhibition, Sant Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, 201 3 | Art Dubai, Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, 201 3 | The Armoury, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 3 | The Space Between: Contemporary Perspectives on Tradition and Society, Jameel Prize Exhibition, Cantor Arts Centre at Stanford University, Stanford, 201 3 | The Young Collectors Exhibit, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 2 | Art MIAMI, Leila Heller Gallery, Miami, 201 2 | Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Abu Dhabi 201 2 | Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 2 | LA Art Platform, Leila Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, 201 2 | Texas Contemporary, Pentimenti Gallery, Houston, 201 2 | UNCHARTED : Works on Paper Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco, 201 2 | 20 in 201 2 Vision Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, 201 2 | Rock, Paper, Scissors Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 201 2 | The Next Generation, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich 201 2 | Jameel Prize Exhibition, Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, 201 2 | SHOW OFF! SPM Private Museum, Dubai, 201 2 | Dubai Art, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Dubai, 201 2 | Pulse Art Fair, Pentimenti Gallery, New York, 201 2 | Invitational Art Exhibition, Conley Art Gallery USC, Fresno, 201 2 | Jameel Prize Exhibition, Casa Arabe, Madrid, 201 2 | Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Abu Dhabi, 201 1 | Contemporary Istanbul, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, 201 1 | Art Asia Miami, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Miami, 201 1 | Aqua Art Miami, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, 201 1 | SHOW OFF! SPM Private Museum, Dubai, 201 1 | IMPACT. 30th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition and Auction Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, 201 1 | UK Contemporary Art/ Arab & Iranian, Sotheby’s Auction, London, 201 1 | Jameel Prize, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 201 1 | Pulse Art Fair, Pentimenti Gallery, New York, 201 1 | Select: Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C., 201 1 | Ritual: Form, Script and Gesture, A Pop Up Project, Morton Fine Art, Washington D.C., 201 0 | More of the best is yet to come, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, 201 0 | Sondheim Prize, Semi-Finalist Exhibition, MICA, Baltimore, 201 0 | MICA Sondheim Prize and Baker Award Honourees, Casewerks, Baltimore, 201 0 | Gallery Artists

Group Show, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, 201 0 | Hidden Wounds, Paper Bullets: Iranian Contemporary Art, Grant Arts Central, Fullerton, 2009 | Protocol: Syntax / Semantics, Gallery 4, Baltimore, 2009 | Baker Artist Awards Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 2009 | Women’s Work, Civilian Art Place, Washington D.C., 2009 | Bastakiya Art Fair, Saatchi, Dubai, 2009 | BiAnnual Symposium on Media Arts, Delaware College, Delaware, 2009 | Hidden and Revealed, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, 2008 | Full Circle, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, 2008 | Penned, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, 2008 | Changing Climate Changing Colours, Abrons Art Centre, New York, 2007 | Displacement, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, 2006 | GRANTS AND AWARDS The Space Program, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Brooklyn, 201 2 | Jameel Prize (Shortlisted), V&A Museum, London, 201 1 | Franz and Virginia Bader Fund, Washington D.C., 201 1 | Individual Artist Grant, Maryland State Arts Council, 201 0 | Mary Sawyers Baker Award, William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund, 2009 | Individual Artist Grant, Maryland State Arts Council, 2008 | RTKL Grant in Visual Arts, 2003 | COLLECTIONS The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | The Victoria and Albert Museum, London | Cornell Fine Art Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park | Bank of America, Corporation Collection, North Carolina, Art in Embassies, Public Collection, Dubai | Salsali Private Museum, Dubai | PARVIZ TANAVOLI B. 1 937 EDUCATION Graduate of Brera Academy, Milan, 1 959 | Tehran School of Fine Arts, 1 955 | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Austin / Desmond Fine Art, London, 201 1 l Meem Gallery, Dubai, 2009 | Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver, 2006 | Retrospective, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003 | Rudolf Mangisch Galerie, Zurich, 1 989 | Aachen Neue Galerie/Samlung Ludwig, Aachen, 1 978 | Iran-America Society, Tehran, 1 976 | Goethe Institute Tehran, 1 972 | Martin Gallery, Minneapolis, 1 971 | Iran-America Society, Tehran; Shiraz University, Shiraz, 1 970 | Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran, 1 967 | Borghese Gallery, Tehran, 1 965 | K.B. Gallery, Minneapolis, 1 962 | Ateller Kaboud, Tehran, 1 961 | Farhang Hall, Tehran-Iran Club, London, 1 960 | Reza Abbassi Hall, Tehran, 1 958 | Farhang Hall, Tehran University, Tehran, 1 957 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Art Dubai, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, Dubai, 2009 | Word into Art, British Museum, Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai, 2008 | Art Paris, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery Stand, Abu Dhabi, 2008 | Routes, Waterhouse & Dodd, London, 2008 | The British Museum, London, 2006 | Persian Garden, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2004 | Iranian Contemporary Art, Christie’s, London, 2002 | Picturing Iran Art, Society & Revolution, Grey Art Gallery, New York, 2002 | Iranian Cotemporary Art, Barbican Centre, London, 2001 | Continental Shift, Aachen; Maastricht; Heerlen; and Liege, 2000 | 7th International Shoebox Sculpture, The University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, 2000 | Atrium Public Gallery, Vancouver, 1 999 | Contemporary Art from Islamic World, Barbican Centre, London, 1 989 | Olympiad of Art, Seoul, 1 988 | Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 1 977 | Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, 1 976 | Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, 1 975 | Quadriennale of Rome, Rome, 1 967 | Venice Biennale, Venice, 1 964 | Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, 1 962 | Musee d’Ixelles, Brussels,

1 962 | Third International Biennale of Sculpture, Carrara, 1 962 | Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, 1 962 | Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1 962 | Venice Biennale, Venice, 1 960 | AWARDS Joseph V. McMullan Award, Near Eastern Art Research Centre, Washington D.C., 1 997 | Royal Prize, Second Tehran Biennial, Tehran, 1 960 | Sculpture Prize, First Tehran Biennial, Tehran, 1 958 | COLLECTIONS British Museum, London | Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai | Forum Ludwig, Aachen | Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York | Hamline University, St. Paul | Esfahan City Centre | Mellat Park, Tehran | Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis | Museum of Modern Art, New York | Museum of Modern Art, Vienna | London Business School, London | Nelson Rockefeller Collection, New York | Noor Foundation, London | Olympic Park, Seoul | Qatar National Museum, Doha | The Royal Society of Fine Arts, Amman | Sculpture Garden of the Artist’s Home, Tehran | St. John University, Collegeville | Shiraz University Campus, Shiraz | The City Theatre, Tehran | University Art Museum, Iowa | Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis | NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN B. 1 981 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Listen, LA Caja Blanca Gallery, Palma de Majorca, 201 1 | Listen, Aaran gallery, Tehran, 201 1 | Listen, Jakob Church, Oslo, 201 1 | Centre Culturel Franco Allemand, Karlsruhe, 2009 | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Hajj, Journey of a life time, British Museum, London, 201 2 | Listen, Margins at 7th Photo Biennial, Poznan, 201 1 | Snail Fever, Video and Pictures, The third line gallery, Dubai, 201 1 1 Listen, The Empty Quarter Fine Art gallery in Menasart Fair, Beirut, 201 1 | Good city for dreamers, Nicolas Silin Gallery, Paris, 201 1 | My super Hero, Morono Kiang Gallery, group show, Los Angeles, 201 1 | Jungle, Shirin Gallery, Tehran, 201 0 | Black or White, Gallery Verso, Turin, 201 0 | No more bad girls?, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 201 0 | Thomas Erben gallery New York, 201 0 | Art Dubai, Dubai, 2009 | Chador and Chanel, Side gallery, 2009 | Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2009 | EVE Women Photographers Collective, Angkor Photography Festival, Ankor, 2008 | Made in Tehran: 6 Frauen-Blicke, Cicero Galerie, Berlin, 2008 | EVE Women Photographers Collective, Angkor Photography Festival, Ankor, 2008 | EVE Women Photographers Collective, Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, 2007 | EVE Women Photographers Collective, Gijon International Festival of Photojournalism, Gijon, 2006 | Mother of Martyrs, Silk road gallery, Tehran, 2005 | Women in Iran | Asar Gallery, Tehran, 2002 | News, Khaneh Gallery, Tehran, 1 999 | AWARDS Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize Finalist, London, 2009 | Inge Morath award, finalist, Magnum Photo Agency, New York, 2007 | Joop Swart Masterclass, World Press Photo, Amsterdam, 2006 | Still photography award, All Roads Film Project, National Geographic, Washington, D.C., 2006 | Runner-up, Picture of the Year International Competition, National Press Photographers Association and Missouri School of Journalism, 2003 | COLLECTIONS Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |

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TERMS & CONDITIONS 1 . Christie’s acts as agent for the charity Magic of Persia. Unless agreed otherwise, the sale of the Lots will result in contracts made between Magic of Persia and the Buyer.

2. The Buyer shall be the person with the highest bid accepted by the auctioneer.

3. All bids are expressed in Pounds Sterling.

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5. Subject to the auctioneer’s discretion, the striking of the hammer marks the acceptance of the highest bid and the conclusion of a contract for sale between the charity and the buyer.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Faig Ahmed Farhad Ahrarnia Ladan Akbarnia Azadeh Akhlaghi Alborz Fine Art Sara Ameri Leila Amiri Siah Armajani The Art Newspaper Parul Arya Abol Atighechi Aun Gallery Fereydoun Ave Andisheh Avini Shoja Azari BahramJi Nazanin Bahadori Mahmoud Bakhshi Thoraya Bartawi Beam Contemporary Art Rana Begum Sassan Behnam Bakhtiar Behzad Behnam Nima Behnoud Alan Bernstein Bischoff/Weiss Mohammad Bozorgi British Museum Candey LLP Canvas Magazine Carbon 1 2 Aaron Cezar Copthorne Tara Hotel Crystal Arc Henry Dallal Morteza Darehbaghi Gohar Dashti Hanieh Delecroix Reza Derakhshani Delfina Entrecanales Bobak Etminani

Sherry Farhadi Rachel Firth Delfina Foundation Shahab Fotouhi Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Dara Gallopin Shadi Ghadirian Goldsmiths University of London Kourosh Golnari Rokni Haerizadeh Mohammad Hasham Firouz Sahand Hesamiyan Paul Hewitt Sheree Hovsepian Kate Hughes InnerJi Haadi Javadi Allison Jenkins Claire Jenkins Kashya Hildebrand Babak Kazemi Fatemeh Kazemi Avish Khebrehzadeh Abbad Kiarostami Michael-Henry Krayem Behdad Lahouti Leila Heller Gallery London Film School Mah Art Gallery Vali Mahlouji Nikki Meftah Michael Michael Saghar Moayeri Arsalan Mohammad Mohsen Gallery Ahmad Morshedloo Morvarid Ali Mousavi Shirin Neshat NIMANY Nicky Nodjoumi

Osborne Samuel Gallery Violet Pakzad Leila Pazooki Venetia Porter Shahpour Pouyan Print Pro Media Myriam Quiel Sara Rahbar Sogol Razi Irit Rogoff Rose Issa Projects Siavash Sabba Keyvan Saber Bahar Sabzevari Behnam Sadighi Kourosh Salehi Salwa Zeidan Gallery Manzar Samii Hadieh Shafie Mousadek Soussi Noor Soussi Parviz Tanavoli Newsha Tavakolian Taymour Grahne Gallery Mohammad Yarand Yay! Gallery

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INDEX FAIG AHMED FARHAD AHRARNIA AZADEH AKHLAGHI SIAH ARMAJANI ART RESIDENCIES AT THE DELFINA FOUNDATION ABOL ATIGHECHI FEREYDOUN AVE ANDISHEH AVINI SHOJA AZARI MAHMOUD BAKHSHI RANA BEGUM BEHZAD BEHNAM SASSAN BEHNAM BAKHTIAR MOHAMMAD BOZORGI HENRY DALLAL MORTEZA DAREHBAGHI GOHAR DASHTI HANIEH DELECROIX & KEYVAN SABER REZA DERAKHSHANI BOBAK ETMINANI SHAHAB FOTOUHI DARA GALLOPIN SHADI GHADIRIAN KOUROSH GOLNARI

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6 45 40 34 3 21 15 18 19 47 13 7 17 5 9 33 24 29 31 28 35 23 12 22

28 99 92 80 24 56 46 52 53 1 02 42 31 50 27 34 78 60 70 74 69 82 59 41 58

INDEX ROKNI HAERIZADEH SAHAND HESAMIYAN SHEREE HOVSEPIAN BABAK KAZEMI AVISH KHEBREHZADEH ABBAS KIAROSTAMI BEHDAD LAHOUTI MA FILMMAKING SCHOLARSHIP AT THE LONDON FILM SCHOOL AHMAD MORSHEDLOO MORVARID ALI MOUSAVI MRES SCHOLARSHIP IN CURATORIAL/KNOWLEDGE SHIRIN NESHAT NICKY NODJOUMI LEILA PAZOOKI SHAHPOUR POUYAN MYRIAM QUIEL SARA RAHBAR BAHAR SABZEVARI BEHNAM SADIGHI KOUROSH SALEHI HADIEH SHAFIE PARVIZ TANAVOLI NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN

LOT

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8 4 44 11 46 30 41 2 37 32 36 1 48 27 43 39 16 42 20 25 10 26 14 38

33 26 98 38 1 00 72 94 22 86 77 85 20 1 04 66 96 90 49 95 55 62 37 65 45 88

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