Education:
2021 PhD, Chelsea College of Art (UAL)
1987 M.A. Fine Art, University of Central England
1986 B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, Surrey Institute of Art and Design
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Healing Havens, Galeria @ O Espaço, Portugal
2018 Black & White Passing Mediterranean Passing Muslim, Triangle Gallery
2008 The Psychology of Fear, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London
2006 Portraits of A Belly Dancer, ASC Brixton Village, London
2005 Souvenir, Florence Trust, London
1998 Chasing Dreams, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024. Healing Havens, OEspaço, Portugal
2023 A Title That Brings Us Together, msdm Publishing House, Studio, Gallery, London
2022 5 FILMS BY 5 ARTISTS, CRYPTOFICTION
2017 Decreation 51Zero / Festival of moving image and digital art, Rochester Cathedral
2014 BreadMatters - Crossing Boundaries Intersecting the Grain, ARTos Foundation Nicosia, Ploumisto Museum in Limassol, and Technopolis Art Center in Paphos, Cyprus
2013 HETERO Q.B., The National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
2013 Fans of Feminism, Cass Gallery, London
2012 In Paradisum, Rich Mix, London
2011 Multiple Authors & Previous Owners, The Triangle Space, London
2009 PRAXIS: Art in Times of Uncertainty, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece
2009 New Territories, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 Looking at others, Umjetnicki paviljon, Zagreb, Croatia
2008 Kisss, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2008 Souvenir as part of Thirty years of solitude, Asia House
2007 Don’t leave, St Ethelburga’s Art Gallery, London
2007 Chisenhale Biennale, London
2007 Open Frequency, Web exhibition and profile nominated by Cherry Smyth, Axis
2005 Art East Biennale, Central Asia Pavilion, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2005 Kisss on Surveillance, Conical Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, Touring
2005 Site-specific performance, Summer Show, Florence Trust
2005 Video lounge, South London Gallery
2005 Protest academy, Elastic Residence
2004 Artivist, Performance, Peckham Square, London
2003 The Nomad Travelling Show, Babol, Iran
2003 Khamoosh, Black History Month, Horniman Museum, London
2002 Private Views, London Print Studio Gallery, London, touring exhibition
2002 Open ev+a 2002, Limerick Biennale, Ireland
2002 What about Hegel, Stuttgart, Germany
2002 stories of 2002 nights, Brigitte March Galerie, Germany
2001 No Place, Pump House Gallery, London
2001 Pellegrinaggio e memoria, Site-specific installation, Italy
2000 VERSUS VI, Velan Centero d‘arte contemporanea, Torino, Italy
2000 Illusioned Quest, Site-specific installation, Camberwell Arts Week
1999 Silent Carpet, Site-specific installation, Camberwell Arts Week
1999 Stroud Open 99, Stroud House Gallery
1999 Art is for life,198 Gallery, Group Exhibition
1998 unlike you, Hortensia Gallery, London
Curatorial Productions:
2015 In\visible cities – International Festival of urban multimedia 3-7 June, Gorizia, Italy) (UK curation and project management) collaborating with Association Quarantasettezeroquattro and other European partners
2015 PUKIJAM, Jennifer Allen aka Quilla Constance, 198 CAL, London
2014 Said Adrus Without An Empire Ghosts Within, 198 CAL, London
2013 I Want Me Some Brown Sugar, Ope Lori, 198 Gallery/CAL, London
2013 Dreaming through -on & into the exotic, Maria Lusitano and Paula Roush, 198 Gallery, Contemporary Arts and Learning, London
2012 ImaginHer, Maryam Hashemi and Kevina Labonne, 198 Gallery, Contemporary Arts and Learning, London
2011-12 The Practice Exchange, A year-long series of seminars exploring practice-led art, design and research across UAL and beyond
2003 The Nomad Travelling Show, Group show, Babol, Iran
1998 Unlike you, Hortensia Gallery, London
Membership of Professional Bodies and Learned Societies
2010- 2015 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning; Trustee
2012- 2022 Design Council; Built Environment Network
2022-2024. Royal Society of Arts; Fellow
2022-present PhDVA (Association for the PhD in the Visual Arts; Board)
Academic Positions:
2024 Lecturer, Middlesex University (Fine Art)
2023-2024 Academic, Middlesex University (Contextual Studies Research)
2022-2023 Academic, Middlesex University
Lecturer Y3 (FSH3935:Contextual Studies Research Project)
Lecturer Y2 (FSH2935:Fashion Culture and Industry, Research)
Lecturer Y1 (FSH 1935: Module Leader, Fashion History and Theory)
2021- 2022 Lecturer Y3 (BA Fine Art), Chelsea College of Art, UAL
2010-2014 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Richmond The American International University in London
Publication/ Presentations:
2024 Shining Lights. 'Black' Women in Photography 1980s-90s; publication by MACK & Autograph ABP.
2024. Black & White, in collaboration with msdm Publishing House
2024. A Title That Brings Us Together, msdm Publishing House
2020 British Art Network Seminar Series; Reviewing Revisions
2020 Research Network, Iniva Global revisions
2019 Decolonising the Arts Curriculum, Central Saint Martins
2015 Deconstructing Identities: a symposium at Chelsea College of Arts
2014 Said Adrus Without An Empire: a symposium at Chelsea College of Arts
2013 Sexuality, Gender and Race: addressing the politics of Women’s Art: a symposium at Chelsea College of Art
2013 Feminist Meetings, The National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
2013 Strategies Of Resistance, Research network, Stuart Hall Library, London
2012 Narratives – Pink and Red, The Practice Exchange, London College of Fashion
2012 Hair About The Woman, Contested Sites/Sights Research Conference, Chelsea College of Art
2009 The Anatomy of Ignorance III, Conversation Pieces, Tate Britain, London
2009 - Praxis:Art In Times of Uncertainty, Essay by Keith Piper
2008 - La strategie des iraniennes, Montreal Art Journal, Essay by Michele C Hadria
2008 - “The Cultural Colonisation of Contempory Art”, Liverpool University press
2007 The Anatomy Of Ignorance I, Current thinking, Talk/presentation, Tate Modern, London
2006 - n.Paradoxa International art magazine, Traveling light
2005- Essay by Sara Raza, “Art in Security and Security in Art”
Essay by Dr. Amna Malik “From exile to transnationalism in the Iranian -Artistic diaspora a lecture, organized by The British Museum
In the shadow of heros, Catalogue, An Art East Publication
Essay by Rohini Malik Okon, ‘Performing Difference’, An Arts Admin Publication
Essay by Jessica Lack, Catalogue, Florence Trust 05
Behshar magazine,Iran -Regional cultural and arts review, Iran
Mazandaran Television ,Iran
2002 - Event magazine, Limerick
EV+A Heroes + holies, catalogue
2001 - Pellegrinaggio e memoria, catalogue
2000- Versus VI, Catalogue
Gallery and Museums Projects/ Residencies:
2012 V&A Create futures, photography project, Al Manaar and the V&A
2010 We are here, Stratford Everyday, English Heritage and Hibiscus Centre
2009-10 Illuminating Cultures, artist in residence, Tate Britain
2009 Mapping project, Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts)
2008 Asia House, Gallery artist, various art projects
2006 Domestic to Global, British Museum, Artists in schools
2004-07 Whitechapel Art Gallery, Gallery artist, various projects
2004-05 Presence & Absence, National Gallery and East Potential
2004 Tate Modern, Artist educator2005-06
2005 Working on various community projects with East Potential, London
2004-05 October Gallery, Gallery artist
2004 Whitechapel Art Gallery, Artist, Atlas Project (Gerhard Richter)
2002-06 Horniman museum, Freelance artist
2000-03 Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Artist
Lead artist, Thurlow Park School Arts Project, London
Lead artist, The Baytree Centre for young women and children
Lead artist, outreach Paxton court project, Lewisham college
Lead artist, Southwark Mind Project, London
Lead artist, Baytree Centre, Brixton
Lead artist, Copleston Centre, East Dulwich, Community art project
Lead artist, Does art make a difference? Thurlow Park School, London
Lead artist, Oaklands Refugee Centre
Lead artist, Maudsley and Bethlem Hospital, London
1999 Lead artist and mentor, Cultural co-operation, London