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Mitra
Tabrizian |
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Born
in Iran |
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Selected
exhibitions |
| 2008 |
(June-September)
Solo show at the Tate Britain |
| 2008 |
Solo
show, InIVA, Institute of international visual art (exact date Tbc,
London) |
| 2007 |
Photo
Miami, Gallery Caprice Horn, Berlin (Dec.)
Sothebys, London (Oct.)
Christie's Dubai (Oct.)
C International Photo, Phillips de Pury, N.Y. (Sept.)
Wall house project (on the work of an American architect John Hejduk),
Noorderlicht, Gallery, Holland and Wall House Foundation, traveling
to.N.Y. (forthcoming)
FotoArtFestival, Poland |
| 2006 |
Solo
show, Moderna Mussset (Museum of Modern art) Stockholm, Sweden
10th Venice Biennale of architecture, Italian Pavilion Giardini
di Castello, Italy
‘Voodoo Macbeth: a tribute to the work of Orson Welles’,
De la Warr Pavilion, Uk
Contemporary Iranian photography, The House of Artists, Tehran Iran |
| 2005 |
‘Safe:
an exhibition of contemporary art’, Karlskrona Art,
Gallery & Blekinge Museum, Sweden (catalogue – poster)
‘In the Shadow of Fallen Heroes’, Central Asian
Biennale in Kyrgyzstan (catalogue) |
| 2004 |
Solo
Show, BBK, Bilbao, Spain – (catalogue)
Solo show , Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Far Near Distance – `New Positions of Contemporary Iranian
Artists’, the House of World Cultures Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
‘Veil’, The Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (catalogue
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‘Lumo 04 triennial of Contemporary Photography’, Jyvaskyla
Art Museum, Finland (catalogue , poster, T-shirt) |
| 2003 |
Solo
show, Museum of Folkwang, Germany (catalogue)
‘Aletheia: The Real of concealment ‘, Art Museum, Goteborg,
Sweden (catalogue, poster)
‘Veil’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Uk (touring in
UK) |
| 2001 |
‘Inhabiting’,
Gallery Lelong, NY, USA |
| 1999 |
‘London:
Post-Colonial City’, Architectural Association, London,UK |
| 1998 |
Minimal
Utopia (Solo show), Camera Austria Gallery, Graz, Austria (poster) |
| 1996 |
‘Gender-
Beyond Memory’, Metropolitan Museum of Photography’,
Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)‘Family,
Nation, Tribe, Community Shift’, House of World Cultures,
Berlin, Germany (catalogue) |
| 1995 |
‘The
Outburst of Signs: Art at the Interfaces of Gender & Race’,
Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstraße, Munich, Germany (catalogue)
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| 1994 |
‘Le
Shuttle’, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
‘Public Domain’, Art Centre Santa Monica, Barcelona,
Spain (catalogue)
Solo show’, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (touring
in Finland)
‘Solo show’, ‘Gallery Index: Centre of Photography’,
Stockholm, Sweden (touring in Sweden) |
| 1993 |
‘Mistaken
Identities’(catalogue):
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Museum of Folklwang, Essen, Germany
Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark |
| 1992 |
‘History
Present’, Museum of Folkwang, Essen, Germany
‘Fine Material for a Dream ...? A Reappraisal of Orientalism:19th
&20th Century Fine Art & Popular Culture’, Harris
Museum, Preston (touring in UK - catalogue) |
| 1991 |
‘Shocks
to the System: Social & Political Issues in Recent British Art’
Royal Festival Hall, London (touring in UK - catalogue)
‘Public Images’, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria |
| 1990 |
‘Spectacular
Women’, Film in the Cities, Saint Paul, USA
‘Contemporary Social Documentary’, Fotobienal, ‘Art
History Centre’, Vigo, Spain
(touring in Spain - catalogue) |
| 1989 |
‘Mysterious
Coincidences’(catalogue):
The Photographers' Gallery, London
Fotogallery, Cardiff
Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Long Beach Museum, Los Angeles
Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand‘Shifting
Focus’ (catalogue):
Serpentine Gallery, London
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Cambridge Darkroom , Cambridge
City Museum & Art Gallery (Stoke on Trent)
Newport Museum & Art Gallery (Newport)
Harris Museum & Art gallery (Preston)
‘Through the Looking Glass: Photographic Art in Britain,1945-
89' Barbican Art Gallery, London (touring in UK - catalogue)‘The
Boundaries of Photography’, Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland (catalogue)
‘Some Notions on Marginality’, Grey Art Gallery, NYU
Study Centre, New York
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| 1988 |
‘The
Other Body’, Photographic Resource Centre, Boston, USA (catalogue)
Billboards: New Castle, Derry, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield - Canada
‘International Photography’, Metronom, Barcelona, (catalogue)
Reflections on the Media, Perspektief, Rotterdam
Towards the Photograph as a Vulgar Document, Optica Gallery, Montreal
(catalogue)
‘Sexual Difference Both Sides of the Camera’, Wallach
Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York (catalogue)
Solo show, Corner House, Manchester (one woman show) |
| 1987 |
Solo
show, ‘National Museum of Photography, Film and Television’,
Bradford
(travelling in UK - catalogue)
‘The Body Politic’, The Photographers' Gallery, London
(touring in Europe & USA - catalogue) |
| 1986 |
Solo
show, Chateau d'Eau Gallery, Toulouse, France (touring in Europe)
‘International Photography’, Arles International Gallery,
Arles (catalogue) |
| 1985 |
‘Magnificent
Obsession’ - ARC Gallery, Toronto (touring in Canada - catalogue)
Solo show, ‘Screen Memories’, Perspectief, Rotterdam,
Holland (catalogue)
‘Impostors’, Interim Art Gallery, London (catalogue)
‘Towards a Bigger Picture’, Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, (catalogue).
Solo show, Gallery 400, Chicago (touring in USA & Europe)
‘European Women Photographers Today’, Torino Ortografia,
Torino, Italy (catalogue)
‘Beyond the Purloined Image’, The Riverside, London
‘The Way We Live Now: Beyond Social Documentary’, PS1
Gallery, New York
‘Phototextes’, Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva (catalogue)
‘Solo Show, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
‘Five Photographers’; Institute of Contemporary Arts,
London (touring in Europe - catalogue)
‘The Actress’; The Photographers' Gallery (touring in
UK.) |
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Films |
| 2003 |
Writer
& Director of ‘The Predator’, AHRB Innovation Awards
(Arts &Humanities Research Board), 35 mm, 28 mins |
| 1993 |
Writer
& Director of ‘Journey of No Return’, BFI, (British
Film Institute) 16mm, 23 mins |
| 1990 |
Writer
& Director of ‘The Third Woman’, BFI, 16 mm, 20
mins |
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Film
Festivals |
| 2005–06 |
The
Predator:
Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, France (Feb05)
Film Society, LA, USA (June 05)
Exile Film Festival, Sweden (October 05)
Cinema East Film Festival, NY (Nov. 05)
Tiburon International Film Festival, USA (March 06)
Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival (Jan 06)
Malta International Short Film Festival (July 2006)
Other
venues:
‘Far from a deceitful world’, Saarijärvi Musuem,
Finland (June 05)
Istanbul photo Biennale, Turkey (Oc t. 06)
Moderna Mussset (Museum of Modern art) Stockholm, Sweden (Nov. 06)
The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (March 07)
International Photography Festival (ULIS photo FEST), Istanbul,
Turkey (May 2007)
Galerie Caprice Horn (2008)
Tate Britain, (forthcoming dtb) |
| 1993–96
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Journey
of No Return distributed by BFI
Toronto International Film Festival,Canada
Turin International Film Festival, Italy
Birmingham International Film & Television Festival, UK.
Berlin International Film Festival, Germany
‘The World is My Home’ The International Exile Film
Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden Festival of Iranian Cineaste in Diaspora
(FICD), touring: Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto
‘Women in Hollywood’s Chair’, Chicago, USA
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| 1990–94 |
The
Third Woman distributed by BFI
Creteil
International Women’s Film Festival, France.
Chicago International Film Festival, USA.
BP Expo, London, UK.
Norwich Women’s Film Festival, UK.
Melbourne
Film Festival Australia, (selected for Kino awards).
Birmingham International Film & Television Festival, UK.
Foyle Film festival, Ireland
Leeds International Film Festival
‘The World is My Home’ The International Exile Film
Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
Festival
of Iranian Cineaste in Diaspora (FICD),touring: Montreal, Ottawa
and Toronto |
| 1993–99 |
The
Third Woman & Journey of no Return have been shown & discussed
at:
Uk
venues:
Metro Cinema, BFI Summer Shorts
Thames Valley University, MA in Cultural Studies
Leeds University
Hall Place Studios,
World University Services
London School of Economics
London University, School of Oriental & African studies
Sheffield University,
Luton University,
‘Women & Islam’, Institute of Contemporary Arts
‘New British Cinema’, Institute of Contemporary Arts
International
venues:
University Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm,Sweden
Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Institute of Contemporary Arts), Berlin,
Germany
The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany.
International Conference of Photography, Graz, Austria
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography’, Japan
‘... east of here ..: (re)imagining the ‘orient’,
YYZ (gallery), Toronto, Canada
‘Reinventing Britain’, Institute of Contemporary Arts,
Boston, USA
Museum of Folkwang, Essen, Germany |
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Selected
Publications |
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Books |
| 2003 |
Beyond
the Limits (with an introduction by Stuart Hall), Steidl |
| 1990 |
Correct
Distance (with an introduction by Griselda Pollock) Cornerhouse,
Manchester, UK. |
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Articles
& Photo-Essays |
| 2007 |
Border
(on Iranians in exile) New Formations, N 62;
Interviewed by Hamid Naficy in An Accented Cinema: Exile and Diasporic
Film making, Hamid Naficy, Princeton U Press |
| 2000–02 |
‘Beyond
the Limits’ in the following books & journals:
Different: a historical context Stuart Hall & Mark Sealy (eds),
Phaidon Press
‘Futures: the journal of policy, planning & futures studies’
Ziauddin Sardar (ed)
‘Art’, German magazine, N11, 2001 |
| 1998–99 |
Minimal
Utopia (photo essay) in the following books & journals:
Formation of Present (translation), Hubertus Von Amelunxen &
Antje, Krause-Wahl (eds), Muthesius Hochschule
The Third Text, Rasheed Araeen (ed), Routlege, London,
Photographers International’, Juan I-Jong (ed), Taiwan,
Camera Austria, N 62/63 |
| 1998 |
‘The
Blues’ in ‘Det Finns Granser’ (‘There Exist
Borders’: translation from Swedish), Wiwi Samuelsson |
| 1995–98 |
Surveillance
(photo essay) in the following journals & books:
The Politics Behind the Nude ‘(translation), a book by Michiko
Kasahara
Liberating Art History (translation), Hiroko Hagiwar (Ed), Jijitsushn
- sha,Tokyo - The paper was initially published in New Formations,
N 6 - 1990 & reprinted in Camera Austria, N 49 |
| 1992 |
‘The
Black As Such: Race & Representation’, Camera Austria,
N 40;
reprinted in ‘Public Domain’ (translation), Jorge Ribalta
(Ed) Departament de Cultura,Barcelona, 1994 |
| 1988 |
‘The
Blues ‘, New Formations, N 6 |
| 1985 |
‘Correct Distance: On the Femme Fatale’, Block, N
10
‘Governmentality: On the Discourse of Advertising’,
Screen
‘College of Fashion’ (photo-essay), Screen Education,
N 4
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Photographic
work in: |
| 1985–
2006 |
British
Journals:
The Observer –
British Journal of Photography –
Camerawork, Creative Camera –
Ten.8 –
UnderCut –
The Media Education Journal –
Feminist Review –
Screen Education
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Screen –
Formations –
New Formations – Block – The Third Text –
Tank – Next
level –
Portfolio
International
Journals:
Exposure - Aperture - Artforum International – New Yorkers
Art AsiaPacific (USA)
Public - Parachute (Canada)
'Image’ (Finland)
Bildtidningen - Bang (Sweden)
Camera Austria (Austria)
Art - (Germany)
Photographers International (Taiwan)
Das Magazin (Switzerland)
Art & Photography (Iran)
Books:
- book cover for Saubere Verhältnisse a novel by the Swedish
author Marie Hermanson published by Suhrkamp Verlag (2005)
- Art & Feminism, Helena Reckitt (ed), Phaidon Press (Oct.)
This book is part of a series entitled '20th Century Source Books'(2000)
- Terra Infirma - Geography's Visual Culture, Irit Rogoff, Routledge
(2000)
- The Image & Visual Culture, Jessica Evans (ed), Open University
(1999)
- The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography & the Everyday,
John Roberts , MUP 1998
- Visual and Other Pleasures, Laura Mulvey, Macmillan,1987
‘Post-Modernism & the Question of Identity’, ICA
Documents,
N 6,
- Vision and Difference, Griselda Pollock, Routledge 1988
- Female Desire, Rosalind Coward
- Photography Politics: Two, - Patricia Holland, Jo Spence and Simon
Watney (ed), Comedia Publishing Group |
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Collections |
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Moderna
Mussset (Museum of Modern art) Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Sparkasse Essen, Germany
Stichting Fotografie Noorderlicht, Netherlads
Tehran
Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
The Arts Council of Great Britain
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford,
UK
The Moravian Gallery, Czechoslovak
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland
And various international private collections |
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Awards |
| 2006 |
Arts
& Humanities Research Center (AHRC) Research Leave Grant
The Arts Council, UK |
| 2005 |
Arts
& Humanities Research Center (AHRC)
Grants in the Creative & Performing Arts |
| 2004 |
The
Arts Council, UK |
| 2003 |
Arts
& Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Innovation Awards |
| 1996 |
London
Arts Board |
| 1993 |
British
Film Institute |
| 1989 |
Greater
London Arts (GLA), film award
British Film Institute
Photographers' Gallery Trust Fund |
| 1987 |
Metro
Billboard Project, Newcastle, UK
Greater London Arts, photography award |
| 1985 |
National
Museum of Photography, Film & Television, photography award
UK
Greater London Arts, photography award
Arts Council photography award, UK |
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Commissions |
| 2003 |
A photographic
project (title tbc) commissioned by Noorderlicht (a photographic
foundation in Holland) on the work of a leading American architect
John Hejduk. The brief aimed at a conceptual interpretation of Hejduk’s
Wall House project in Groningen in Holland. |
| 1993 |
‘Naked
City’ (a photographic project on violence and the city) commissioned
by Elena Foster at Ivory press, Uk for the launch of‘C
International Photo Art Magazine’, a unique, limited edition,
publication which was published in two bilingual versions: English
& Chinese, as well as Spanish & Japanese, & lunched
in London, Madrid, Barcelona, New York, Tokyo, Beijing and Moscow. |
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Talks
and Workshops |
| 1987–
2005 |
London:
The Photographer's Gallery – Institute of Contemporary Arts
– Sir John Cass School of Art – Harrow College –
Royal College of Art – Chelsea School of Art – St.Martin's
School of Art – Goldsmiths College of Art – London College
of Printing – Black Art Gallery – Serpentine Gallery
– Brighton University – Thames Valley University –
London University – Tate Modern – Tate
Others:
Uk
Arnolfini (Bristol) - Portfolio Gallery (Edinburgh) – Metro
Billboard Project (Newcastle) – Coventry School of Art –
Leeds Women's Centre – Leeds University – Derby Master
Photography Workshop – Derby M.A Course – Farnham University
– Watershed (Bristol)
International:
Perspektief Gallery (Rotterdam) – Camera Austria (Graz) –
The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York) – Gallery Index
(Stockholm) – Museum of Modern Art (Stockholm) University
of Stockholm – Institute of Contemporary Arts (Boston) –
University of Santa Cruz (USA) – University of Santa Barbara
(USA) – Göteborg Museum of Art, Sweden – Moderna
Mussset (Museum of Modern art) Stockholm, Sweden |
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Conference
Papers |
| 2006 |
Global
Photography Now: The Middle East’, Tate Modern
Istanbul photo Biennale, turkey |
| 2005 |
‘90s
Photography in Britain’, Tate Britain, (May) |
| 2004 |
‘Digital
Photography’, Folkwang museum, Essen, Germany (Oct.)
‘Tehran’s 9th Photo Biennale’, Museum of Contemporary
Arts, Tehran, Iran (July.) |
2000 |
Chairing
conversation between Stuart Hall & Homi Bhabha, University of
Westminster |
| 1998 |
Muthesius
Hochschule Forum, paper, Minimal Utopia, Kiel, Germany. |
| 1997 |
‘Symposium
on Photography XVII: Agents & Agencies: Photography between
Discourse & Document’, paper, Minimal Utopia, Graz, Austria
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| 1994 |
‘British
Art’, discussing the film ‘Journey of No Return’
(BFI) Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin, Germany‘Post-Feminism
& Art’, Paper ‘The Feminine Gaze’, University
of Stockholm, Sweden |
| 1993 |
‘History
as Repetition, The Repetition of History - What is New?’(History,
identity, Race, Nation), discussing the photographic work, ‘The
Blues’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
‘Haltbar, International Conference of Photography’,
paper; ‘On the Notion of Critical Practice’, Dortmond,
Germany
Feminist Art & Histories Network’, paper ‘On the
Notion of Critical Practice’, Leeds University, UK |
| 1992 |
‘Identities:
Strategies of Representations’, Paper ‘The Black As
Such: Race & Representation’ University of Santa Barbara,
USA. |
| 1991 |
‘Public
Images’, paper, ‘The Black As Such: Race & Representation’
‘Camera Austria, Graz, Austria. |
| 1990 |
‘Displacements:
Migration and Identity’, paper, ‘Surveillance: Islam,
Identity and the West’, University of California, Santa Cruz,
USA |
| 1989 |
‘Foto
Biennale: International Conference of Photography’, paper,
‘On Postmodernism’, Enschede, Holland. |
| 1988
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Feminism
& Art’, paper ‘Post - Feminism and the Third World
Woman’ New Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| 1987 |
‘The
Other Body: Cultural Debates in Contemporary British Photography’,
paper ‘Correct Distance: On the femme fatale’, Boston
University, Boston, USA
‘Photography, Phantasy, Politics’, ‘Correct Distance:
On the femme fatale’ Leeds University, UK.
‘International Conference of Photography‘, paper, ‘Racism
and Representation’, Toronto, Canada |
| 1986 |
‘Women's
Photography Conference’, paper, ‘Not Images of Women,
But Woman as Image’, Battersea Arts Centre, London. |
| 1985 |
‘Photography
& Critical Theory’, paper ‘Not Images of Women,
But Woman as Image’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK. |
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