SHADI GHADIRIAN
- Born in 1974, Tehran, Iran.
- B.A degree in Photography, Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Solo Exhibitions:
Golestan Gallery, Tehran,Iran, 1999
Leighton House Museum, London,England, 1999
Exhibition of Fnac, France, 2001
Villa Moda, Kuwait, 2002
French Cultural Center, Damascus, Syria, 2006
Al mamal Foundation2, Jerusalem, Palestine, 2006
B21 Gallery, Dubai, 2007
Photography Festival of Istanbul, Turkey, 2007
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California,USA, 2008
Silk Road, Tehran,Iran, 2008
Tasweer Gallery, India, 2008
Aeroplastics Contemporary, Belgium, 2009
FCG Dusseldorf, Germany, 2009
Co2 Gallery, Rome,Italy, 2009
Boudin Lebon Gallery, Paris,France, 2009
Guild Art, Mumbai, India, 2010
Queen Gallery, Canada, 2011
SilkRoad Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2011
The international photo festival, Kusadasi, Turkey, 2012
Podbielsky Contmporary Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2013
Mairie De Ploumagoar, France, 2013
Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India, 2013
Foto Galeria Lang, Zagreb, Croatia, 2014
Aban Gallery, Mashhad, Iran, 2014
Dar Al Funoon Gallery, Kuwait, 2015
The others me, officine dell'Immagine Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2015
Retrospective Shadi Ghadirian, Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, France, 2015
AB Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, 2016
Retrospective Shadi Ghadirian, Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de San Benito, Valladolid, Spain, 2017
Retrospective Shadi Ghadirian, Centre del Come, Valencia, Spain, 2018
Retrospective Shadi Ghadirian, Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Yerevan, Armenia, 2018
Retrospective Shadi Ghadirian, Centro Niemeyer, Aviles, Spain, 2019
Group Exhibitions:
1997
Group Exhibition (About Children) Aria Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Tehran International Documentary Photo exhibition, Tehran, Iran
1998
Sooreh International photo exhibition, Tehran, Iran
Barg Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2000
Inheritance, Leighton House Museum, London, England
Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center Copenhagen, Denmark
Ballymena Arts Festival, Northern Ireland
The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
The Iranian Women's Studies Foundation, Worth Ryder Gallery at University of California, Berkeley, USA
2001
A Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Barbican Art Center (Iranian Contemporary Art), London, England
Photospania Festival, Spain
Regards Persons, Space Electra, Paris, France
2002
Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Glimpses Of Iran), Greece
2003
Harem Fantasies and the new Scheherzades, Spain and France
Sharjah International Biennial 6, Sharjah
Women in Orient - Women in Occident, Germany
Konstmuseum Gutenberg, Sweden
Ville De Bologna, France
Veil exhibition, the new Art Gallery, Walsall, Liverpool, Oxford, England
Sorbonne University, Paris, France
2004
San Jose Museum of Art, New York, USA
The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Photo Biennale of Moscow, Russia
Parliament of Brussels, Belgium
Photo Biennale of Luxemburg
Chobi Mella 3, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2005
How eastern look at western, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
Rebel mind Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Foto Art Festival, Poland
Group Exhibition, after the revolution, Sans Bastian, Spain
Aeroplastics Gallery, Belgium
N Gallery, Tibilisi, Georgia
Galata Fotografhanesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Baudouin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France
Third Line Gallery, Dubai
2006
Blessed are the Merciful, Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA
Art space Witzenhausen , Amsterdam, Netherland
The Veiled Mirror, Contemporary Iranian Photography, De Santos Gallery, Houton, Texas, USA
Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East, The British Museum, London, England
Image of Middle East, dccd, Denmark
Ey Iran, Contemporary Iranian Photography, Gold Cost City Art Gallery, Australia
Representation and Use of the Body in Art, Galerie Helene Lamarque, Paris, France
Le Rectangle, Lyon, France
Selyemes Fenyek, Budapest
Inaugura en Tucumán, Mexico
2007
Noorderlicht photo festival, Netherlands
La Paz, Bolivia
FotoEncuentro, Colombia
San Diego Convention Centre, California, USA
Silk Road, Tehran, Iran
2008
Word Into Art, DIFC, Dubai
Cramer Contemporary, Switzerland
Exprmntl gallery, Toulouse, France
Women of Light, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin
2009
Mall Gallery, Masques of Shahrzad, London, England
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, England
Italian School, Tehran, Iran 165 years of Iranian Photography, Du Quai Branly Museum, Paris, France
Rebelle. Art and feminism 1969-2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Nederland
Routes, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, London, England
Guild Art Gallery, New York, USA
Arario Gallery New York, USA
The Seen and the Hidden, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York , USA
2010
Galerie Ernst Hilger, Austria
Cmooa Gallery, Morocco
LTMH Gallery, New York, USA
Stare at the Other Side, Albareh Art Gallery, Bahrain
Barakat, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
Waterhouse & Dodd, London, England
The Silk Road, Saatchi Gallery, Lille, France
Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland
IRAN: Preview of the past, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Act of Faith, Abdijdmuseum Ten Duinen' in Koksijde, Belgium
2011
The French Cultural Center in Yangon, Burma
Photo Espana Festival, Spain
Cool Art Café, Brussels, Belgium
Boghossian foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Zendegi, Beiroot Exhibition Center, Lebonan
Artespacio CAF,Bolivia
Staging I dentity, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Switzerland
Face Contact, PHotoEspana, Madrid, Spain
Idols and Icons, Yavuz Fine Art, Singapore
Pool, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Tehran Monoxide Project, Kherad School, Tehran, Iran
Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brezil
2012
The Elephant in the dark, Mumbai, India
Iranian Perspectives, Richard Young Gallery, London, England
Light from the Middle East, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society. Art Gallery of the Princeton Arts Council, New Jersey, USA
Evreux, Maison des Arts, France
Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia
The other half of Iran, SEM-Art Gallery, Monaco
Museum of contemporary art, Isfahan, Iran
Iranian Art, Cite International des Arts, Paris, France
Majority World, Guardian Gallery, London, England
Biennial of Fashion Photography, Varazdin, Croatia, USA
Social Order, Women Photographers from Iran, India and Afghanistan, Photo Center Northwest, USA
Pictorial Representations from the Arab World and Iran, Rose Issa Project, London, England
Pulso Iranano, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013
Havaye Taze, Maison des arts Solange-Baudoux - Ville d'Évreux, France
International museum of women, CA, USA
Inter Art Center & Gallery, Beijing, China
Identity, Haleh Gallery, Germany
Ulsan International Photography Festival, South Korea
Side By Side Gallery, Berlin, Germany
She who tells the story, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Mazatlan's Cultural Festival, Mexico
Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Pardis Melat Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Aria Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014
Fine Arts Gallery of California State University, Los Angeles, USA
Silkroad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Somerset House, London, England
True to life, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, England
Muscle Memory in the Middle East and the Caucasus, Freeman Space, NY, USA
She who tells the story, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, California, USA
Annual festival for Russian photographers, Uglich, Russia
Salvation,Gaza, Niavaran Cultural House, Tehran, Iran
Majority World, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai
Iran & Rio Art connection, Largo das Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Voice of Tacitness, International Photo Festival, Hong Kong
Open Museum Open City, Maxxi Museum, Rome, Italy
2015
Eyes on Iran, Hinterland at Slash/Creative Studio, Wien, Austria
She Who Tells a Story, Stanford University, CA, USA
SELF Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, National Academy Museum and School, New York, USA
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, USA
Too Early, Too Late. Middle East and Modernity, Pinacoteca Nazionale Bologna, Italy
Burnt Generation, the University of Calgary's Founders' Gallery at the Military Museums, Canada
The breaking of silence, Shirin art gallery, tehran, Iran
Qajar Women, The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Qatar Museums , Doha, Qatar
Humble me, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Belgium
Venice biennale, Italy
2016
She Who Tells a Story, The National Museum, Washington DC, USA
Agoraphobia, Tarahan Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea
Miradas Paralelas, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Visage/Image Of Self, Aran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Photo Istanbul, International festival of photography, Istanbul, Turkey
2017
Presence, CENTER for VISUAL ART Metropolitan State University, Denver, USA
Rebel, the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
Invisible Cities, Columbia University, New York, USA
She who tells a story, The Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Canada
Tirgan Festival, Arta Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Ballart International Foto Biennale, Australia
Chiangjiang International Biennale of photography, China
Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia
Iran, Annee 38, Rencontres D' Arles, France
Apiece of life, E1 Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018
In the Fields of Empty Days, LACMA Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, USA
Contemporary Iran, Salon D'Art, Monte Carlo, France
Genesis of a latent vision, Fotografia Europea 018, Italy
Termeh Art Festival, Munich, Germany
To Infinity and beyond, BredaPhoto Festival, Netherlands
Unveild, Saint-Petersburg, Loft project Etazhi, Russia
Tehran Monoxide, Silk road Gallery, Tehran
Contemporary Muslim Fashions, De Youg Museum, San Francisco, USA
Every Body Talks, Mattatoio, Rome, Italy
SOFT POWER, Bourges at Transpalette Art Center, France
2019
Chennai Photo Biennale, India
Public Collections:
The British Museum, London
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
The Smithsonian museum, Washington DC, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Mumok (Museum Modern Kunst Sitftung Ludwig), Vienna
Musée d'art et d'archéologie de la ville d'Aurillac, France
Devi Art Foundation, India
Museum of contemporary Art, Tehran
The Museum of fine art Boston (MFA)
