Biography
SHADI GHADIRIAN
Born in 1974, Tehran, Iran
B.A. degree in Photography, Azad University, Tehran
Solo Exhibitions
1999
Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Leighton House Museum, London, UK
2001
Exhibition at Fnac, Paris, France
2002
Villa Moda, Kuwait
2006
French Cultural Centre, Damascus, Syria
Al-Ma’mal Foundation, Jerusalem, Palestine
2007
B21 Gallery, Dubai
Photography Festival of Istanbul, Turkey
2008
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Tasveer Gallery, Bangalore, India
2009
Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
FCG Düsseldorf, Germany
Co2 Gallery, Rome, Italy
Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France
2010
Guild Art, Mumbai, India
2011
Queen Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012
The International Photo Festival,
Kusadasi, Turkey
2013
Podbielsky Contemporary Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Ploum’expo, Ploumagoar, France
Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India
2014
Foto Galeria Lang, Zagreb, Croatia
Aban Gallery, Mashhad, Iran
2015
Dar Al Funoon Gallery, Kuwait « The Others Me », officine dell’Immagine Gallery, Milan, Italy
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, UK
Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ballymena Arts Festival, Northern Ireland, UK
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 Centre (Iranian Contemporary Art), London, UK
PhotoEspaña Festival, Madrid, Spain
« Regards Persans », 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 Scheherazades », Spain and France Sharjah International Biennial 6, Sharjah
« Women in Orient – Women in Occident », Germany
Konstmuseum Gutenberg, Sweden
« Iran, un regard persan », musée des Années 30, Boulogne-Billancourt
Veil exhibition, the New Art Gallery, Walsall, Liverpool, Oxford, UK
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 III », Dhaka, Bangladesh
2005
« Occident vist des d’Orient », CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
Rebel Mind Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Foto Art Festival, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
« Después de la revolución » (group exhibition), San Sebastian, Spain
Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
N Gallery, Georgia, USA
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, Netherlands
« The Veiled Mirror, Contemporary Iranian Photography », De Santos Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
« Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East », The British Museum, London, UK
« Image of Middle East », DCCD, Copenhagen, Denmark
« Ey! Iran: Contemporary Iranian Photography », Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia
« L’Envers des corps, représentation et usage du corps dans l’art », Galerie Hélène Lamarque, Paris, France
Le Rectangle, Lyon, France
Selyemes Fenyek, Budapest, Hungria
Inaugura en Tucumán, Mexico
2007
Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Netherlands
Group Exhibition, La Paz, Bolivia
FotoEncuentro, Murcia, Cartagena, Spain
San Diego Convention Centre, California, USA
Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2008
Word Into Art, DIFC, Dubai
Cramer Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
Exprmntl Galerie, Toulouse, France
« Women of Light », Davide Gallo Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2009
« The Masques of Shahrzad », Mall Gallery, London, UK
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
« 165 ans de la photographie iranienne », Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
« Rebelle. Art and feminism 1969-2009 », Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands
« Routes », Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, London, UK
Guild Art Gallery, New York, USA
Arario Gallery, New York, USA
« The Seen and the Hidden », Austrian
Cultural Forum, New York, USA
2010
Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
CMOOA Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
LTMH Gallery, New York, USA
« Stare at the Other Side », Albareh Art
Gallery, Manama, Bahrain
« Barakat », Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
Waterhouse & Dodd, London, UK
« La Route de la soie », Saatchi Gallery, Lille, France
Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland
« Iran: Preview of the Past », University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
« Act of Faith », Abdijmuseum Ten Duinen, Koksijde, Belgium
2011
The French Cultural Center, Yangon, Burma
PhotoEspaña Festival, Spain
Cool Art Café, Brussels, Belgium
Boghossian foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Zendegi, Beirut Exhibition Centre, Lebanon
Artespacio CAF, La Paz, Bolivia
« Staging Identity », Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
« Face Contact », PhotoEspaña, 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, Brazil
2012
« The Elephant in the Dark », Devi Art
Foundation, Gurgaon, India
« Iranian Perspectives », Richard Young
Gallery, London, UK
« Light from the Middle East »,
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
« The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society », Art Gallery of the Princeton Arts Council, New Jersey, USA
La Maison des Arts Solange-Baudoux, Évreux, France
Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia
« The Other Half of Iran », SEM-Art Gallery, Monaco
Museum of Contemporary Art, Isfahan, Iran
« Iranian Art now », Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France
« Majority World », Guardian Gallery, London, UK
Biennale of Fashion Photography, Varazdin, Croatia
« Social Order, Women Photographers from Iran, India and Afghanistan», Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, USA
« Pictorial Representations from the Arab World and Iran », Rose Issa Project, London, UK
« Pulso Iranano », São Paulo, Brazil
2013
« Havâye Tâze », Maison des Arts
Solange-Baudoux, Évreux, France
International Museum of Women, California, USA
Inter Art Center & Gallery, Beijing, China
« Identity », Haleh Gallery, Berg, 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
Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Somerset House, London, UK
« True to Life », Birmingham Museum
& Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
« Muscle Memory in the Middle East
and the Caucasus », Freeman Space, New York, 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
2015
« Eyes on Iran, » Hinterland at Slash / Creative Studio, Vienna, Austria
« She Who Tells a Story », Cantor Arts Center, Standford, California, 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, Brussels, Belgium
Venice Biennale, Italy
Public Collections
The British Museum, London, UK
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France
LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
The Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Mumok, Museum Moderner Kunst Sitftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie, Aurillac, France
Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
