VAHID

SHARIFIAN

Works
An Alien
David Friedrich Affair
Early spring
Lady and her cat in the balcony
Missing Bali
Black Magic
ORGASM
Sunlight miracles
ForGettin
A Bartender and a wine taster
A windy sunny beautiful day
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: "Romantic Facilities", Maryam Fashi Harandi Gallery, Tehran, Dec 2014; "Eestern Angry Birds", Etemad Gallery, Tehran, May 2014; "Flowars" Etemad Gallery,Tehran, May 2012; "Martyr" Maryam Fashi Harandi Gallery, Tehran, Jan 2011; "My father is a democrat and through his chimney there are always hearts flying to the sky" Photo Installation, khastoo gallery, Los Angeles, California, US, 2009; "My father is a democrat and through his chimney there are always hearts flying to the sky", XVA Gallery, Dubai, UEA Photo installation, Oct 2008; "Waiting For Jeff koons", Ave Gallery, Story-Installation, Tehran, Oct 2007; "Game without a ball ", Ave Gallery, March 2006.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: "Great Game", Venice Biennale, Iran pavilion, cur. by Marco Meneguzzo, Venice, Italy, May 2015; "Songs of Loss and Songs of Love" , cur. by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath" Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea, May 2014; "Paintingwall", cur. by Ala Dehghan, Touch gallery, Boston, USA , January 2014; "Paper works" cur. by Fereydoun Ave, Etemad Gallery, Dubai, Nov 2013; "Iran Scope" , cur. by Fereydoun Ave ,Khak gallery, Dubai, Dec 2012; "Documentary of Sea" cur. by Vahid Sharifian, XVA Gallery , Dubai, Feb 2012; "third eye ,cur. by Raul zamudio, Other Gallery, Shanghai,China , March 2011; "Ground Floor America , WHW Curaturial Group, DenFrie Centre of Contemporary Art,Copenhagen, Denmark ,July 2010; "Iran-Today, Curated by Shahram Karimi, galerie Brigitte schenk, Koln ,Germany Nov 2010 "Iran-Today,galleria Il Gabbiano ,Rome,Italy , July 2010; "I.U[heart], cur. by m.shafahi ,Third Line Gallery, Dubai, Jun 2010; "Pop-up, smithshop+Stor, khastoo gallery , LA ,March 2010; "Iran inside out, cur. by Sam Bardaouil and Till fellrath, Farjam Foundation,Dubai. March 2010; "Iran inside out, cur. by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Depual Art Museum,Chicago .Nov 2009; "Iran inside out, cur. by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Chelsea Art Museum, New York .June 2009; "Made in Iran curated by Arianne Levene and Églantine de Ganay, Asia House , London ,UK, June 2009 "RAAD O BARGH, Kunstraum Deutsche Bank, Salzburg, Austria, July 2009; "RAAD O BARGH", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, cur. by Victoire de Pourtales, Paris, France, Feb 2009 "crack up", cur. by Leila Michele , khastoo gallery, Los Angeles CA/ USA. Nov 2008; "Lion under the rainbow, cur. by Alexandros Georgiou "Art from Tehran, D-Art Association, Athens, Greece, May 2008; "Radical Drawing" , cur. by vahid sharifian ,Tehran Gallery, Tehran, Iran Dec 2007; "Nightingales Song of Oil Rich Regions", Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Arts, Isfahan, Iran Jan 2008; "Memorial to the Iraq war" cur. by Mark Sladen, Institute Of Contemporary Arts ,London, UK, May 2007. BOOKS: "Deer T shirt "(story), Ney Publication, Tehran, 2014; "Three dollops of ketchup".2HB CCA Glasgow, UK, July 2011; "Songs of Black Tulips",panai/NATURE BLISS INC, Tokyo, Japan 2010; "second son of mary"(poetry),ahangedigar pubication,Tehran, 2009; "Funeral"(screenplay), Arvij publication,Tehran, 2006; "The line Of Pines And The White Cat" (poetry), Ahang-e-Digar publication,Tehran, 2006.
AUCTIONS: artnet Auction, middle eastern contemporary art,11 Aug. 2011; Magical nights Auction( Magic of Persia), Iranian modern and contemporary Art,5-6 Nov 2010,Dubai,UAE; Laxart Benefit Auction , contemporary art ,15 Nov 2009,Los Angeles ,CA/USA; Artcurial auction, Iranian and arab modern and contemporary art, 24 Oct 2009,Paris,France; Magic of Persia Auction, Iranian modern and contemporary art, 11 April 2009,Dubai,UAE.
SELECETED PRESS AND REVIEWS: artnet News, Singing the praises of love and loss, Ines min, May 2014; ArtAsiaPacific Magazine, Songs of loss and Song of love , by Jayoon Choi, Sep 2014; Artnews, , Removing the Veil ,By Barbara Pollack December 2010; L'Officiel Hommes , Agendaart, AlixO,byrin ,No 15,2009; L'Officiel, L'Art AND Lamatiere ,by delphine Minoui, March 2009; Wallpaper magazine, Thunder and Lighting ,Feb 2009; artnet, Iran ART Now ,Ben Davis, Aug 2009; New York Times, Art Intersects With Reality of Iranian Conflict ,Randy Kennedy, June 26, 2009; New York Times ,iran inside out, Holland Cotter July 23, 2009;