b. Tehran, Iran
Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION:
2000-2001 Sculpture Center School, New York, NY
I982-1986 BFA Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2022 "As Near As Memory"(Solo), Luis De jesus Los Angeles, LA, Ca
2022 "Rendezvous" (Solo), Hamzianpour and Kia Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 "The Prisoner's Palace" (Two Person) Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 "Abstracting Materiality" (Two person), Sapar Contemporary, NewYork, NY
2015 "Chaos, A Mind of Its Own",(solo) Shirin Gallery NY, New York, NY
2011 “A Mirror Has Two Faces” (solo) Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2011 "Friends of Steel", (solo), Westbeth Gallery, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 "Anonymous from Iran", Culture Lab LIC, LIC, NY
2022 "Between The Stripes, Under The Stars", St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota
The Armory Show, Luis De Jesus Gallery, NY
"Astrologica"Heidman Art Salon, Kansas City, MO
Expo Chicago, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
2021 "Our tears are sweet, our laughter venomous: Iranian-American Artists, (catalog) Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT.
"Dreaming of Equ>lity", Reynolds Gakkery, University of The Pacific, Stockton, CA
2020 "49.5", 601 Artspace, NYC
2019 "A Bridge Between You and Everything", Highline 9, Chelsea, NY
"Fact and Fiction", Spring/Break Art Show, Sapar Contemporary, NYC
"I Contain Multitutudes" Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
2018 "Revolutions & Movements" Dupont Underground, Washington D.C.
"Arabesque" Albin Polasek Museum, Winter Park, Florida
"The World is My Home", Advocartsy, Los Angeles, CA
"ReVision", Edison Price Gallery, LLC, NY
2017 "Tape Art 2017", Ormond Memorial Art Museum, Ormond Beach, Fl.
"Echo", Gallery Kayafas, Boston, Massachusetts
"Ornate Activate", Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum" Milwaukee, WI
"Thicket", Station Independant Projects, NYC
2016 "Interrupted", Coburn Gallery, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio
"Sheherzade's Gift: Subversive Narratives ,"The Center for Book Arts, NYC
"Where We Are Standing":3 person exhibition of women
artists from Iran, The Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY
"The Angel of History" Station Independent Projects, NYC
2015 "Ornate Activate" SAWCC Exhibition, Shirin Gallery, NYC
“Made
in LIC”, Edison Price Gallery, LIC, NY
2014 "The Subject is War", Rogue Community College, Oregon
"Are We Gone Already Gone?" Flicker Lab, NYC
"Alwan Art Auction" Shirin Art Galery, NYC
2013 “Her Stories” traveling exhibition, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA
3rd Annual Parsons alumni Exhibition, Sheila Johnson Design Center, NY
2012 “Political Humor” Fort Lewis College, Oregon
2nd Annual Parsons alumni Exhibition, Sheila Johnson Design Center, NY
"Her Stories", Queens Museum of Art", Queens, NY
"Amulets, Nazars, Evil Eyes", Queens College Art Center,Flushing, NY
"Where do we go from here, The shape of things to come",
Rogue Community College, Oregon
"Love?", Berger Gallery Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
2011 Dubai Art Fair, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
VIP Art Fair, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2010 “Snow”, XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Art Walk NY/Coalition for the Homeless, Skylight Studio, NY
“Seduced by the Sacred”, The Joyce D. and Andrew J Mandell JCC, West Hartford, CT
“Dialogue Beyond Reality”, Zora Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
“Then and Now”, 30th Anniversary Exhibit, Tompkins Square Gallery, NY
“Tehran-New York” Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
JAMM, Contemporary Art Auction, Kuwait
2009 “Paper in the Wind 3”, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York, NY
“Movers & Shakers in Contemporary Iranian Art”, Leila Heller Gallery, NY
2008 Scope Miami Art Fair, Leila Heller Gallery, Miami, Florida
Asian Contemporary Art Fair, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
“Between Heaven and Earth”, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
Asian Contemporary Art week, Leila Heller gallery, New York, NY
2007 Henry Street Settlement, Artist-In-Residence, New York, NY
“Emergence”, Current Gallery, (catalog), Baltimore, Maryland
"Metropoly" Makor Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS:
2012 nominated for the Jameel Art Prize
2009 nominated for Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize, London, England
2006 Henry Street Settlement A.I.R. Workspace Program, New York, NY
Makor/Steinhardt Center, Artists-in-Residence Program, NYC
PUBLICATIONS /INTERVIEWS:
2019
Bridge Over Troubled Waters- Urban Milwaukee
2018
The World is My Home “Iranian artists ponder
forms of belonging at ADVOCARTSY’s The Space/Art Radar
Advocartsy/Space,
Flaunt Magazine
2017
At
Gallery Kayafas, art from Iranian women- The Boston Globe
A
Hybrid State: Art by seven Iranian-American Women-Art Critical
2016
Panel
discussion moderated by Clare Davies, Nyack Library, Nyack, NY
Three Iranian Women Use Art to Pierce Their Homeland’s Veil, The New York Times
“Where We Are Standing” 3
contemporary Iranian Women artists at Edward Hopper House Art Center/Art
Radar
Where
We Are Standing’: Iran in Nyack, Nyack News and Views
2015
Rorschach
Inkblots Conjure Up Themes Of Loss in Iran/ Hyper Allergic
2011 “Her Stories”, catalog, Queens Museum of Art
"Reversing the Gaze, Man as Object"
Catalog by Tanya Augsburg & Karen Gutfreund
Zamaneh radio interview
http://www.radiozamaneh.com/culture/goonagoon/2011/05/14/3922
www.persianesquemagazine.com/tag/roya-farassat/
2010 “Seduced by the Sacred” catalog
Zamaneh radio interview,
http://zamaneh.com/morenews/2010/03/post_1200.html
“Tehran- Iran” catalog, Leila Heller Gallery
JAMM, Catalog for contemporary Art Auction held in Kuwait
2009 Persian BBC Interview, by, PanteA Bahrami
“Selseleh and Zelzeleh” catalog, by, LTMH Gallery
“Different Sames”: New Perspectives in Contemporary Persian Art
2008 TCNJ, The Signal, entertainment weekly, “Time Off”
2007 “Emergence” Catalog by Robert Jason Flagan
RELATED ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE:
2003- 2012 Fine Arts instructor, Pierce Country Day Camp, Roslyn, NY
1988- 1990 Whitney Museum/ Equitable Center, NYC
1986- 1987 Assistant to sculptor, Esther Gentle Rattner, NY
