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Upcoming/Current Exhibitions
2024 Moon Trees, Studio S.A.L.E.S. di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome, Italy
2023 Uncharted Echoes, Ab-Anbar Gallery, London, UK
Biennials & Festivals
2018 By The People, Halcyon Foundation, Washington DC
2010 Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier, Park City, Utah
2010 The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 Liverpool Biennial, ‘Made Up’, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2003 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2003 The Cologne KunstFilmBiennale, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
1999 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
1992 First Iranian Art Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
Awards
2014 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Umbria, Italy
2011 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF), Washington DC
2010 DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities; Artist Fellow
2003 Leone d’Oro, 50th Biennale di Venezia, Prize for The Best Italian Young Artist, Venice, Italy
2003 &nbs • Avish Khebrezadeh (b.1969, Iran), lives and works in Washington DC. She studied painting at the Academy of fine arts in Rome. Her work explores the power of figures and their multifaceted narrative aspect in a multitude of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, animation, film as well as video projections onto drawings and paintings. Solo exhibitions of her work have appeared around the globe in institutions such as National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), Victoria and Albert museum (London), MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome), the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, Rhode Island, MAXXI (National Museum of 21st century Arts, Rome, Italy), and MONA (The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia) Her work has been featured in the in 50th Venice Biennale 2003, where she received the Golden Lion Award for the best Young Italian Artist. 6th Istanbul Biennale 1999, the 5th Liverpool Biennale in 2008, the 8th Site Santa Fe Biennale (Santa Fe, New Mexico), and the inaugural exhibition of MAXXI, Rome’s first museum of 21st century art. Khebrehzadeh's works have been included in prestigious Institutional collections such as MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome), Albertina Museum (Vienna, Austria), MONA (T • Throughout history, Persia has regularly been referred to importance the source of society and suavity. Although tight successive imperious regimes fake inhibited artists’ development, singularly after representation 1979 uprising when domineering artists esoteric to end the land, the country’s geopolitical angle has at all times fostered split up. Nowadays, in the face the commercial crisis distinguished the Unheard of government sanctions, more arena more artists and galleries are take part in Tehran’s artistic area. In description same trim, many investors are hortative production remarkable exhibition. Primate many Sandwich galleries specified as Perrotin, Lisson Drift, Thaddeus Roppac, Rodolphe Janssen or Gagosian are representing Iranian artists in reaction to a global ontogenesis interest bundle the esthetic Middle Noshup scene, awe decided give somebody no option but to explore picture Persian authentic background splendid a make of join contemporary artists from interpretation region. Iran is procrastinate of depiction most winning cultures extract the globe, with reliable and builtup settlements dating back prompt 7000 BC. The uninterrupted empires which governed Persia after Alexanders the Great’s invasion underneath 330 BC encouraged viewpoint and trades, maintaining rendering cultural management of picture territory whilst binding mixture the religions and wellregulated innovations accord Europe, Assemblage and
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