Born in 1970, AHWAZ, Iran

Works and lives in London, UK 

EDUCATION:

Goldsmith College, London. 1997. MA Fine Art. 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

2011 ‘Walking in the Darkness of a Promised Light’, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, UAE

2009 Live Action 71, curated by The Diogenes Club, Late at Tate Britain, London, UK

‘Between the Eye and the Object falls a Shadow…’, B21 Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2008 Live Action 60, commissioned for Zoo Art Fair and CollectingLiveArt, London, UK

Best of Discoveries, Shcontemporary, Shanghai, China

2007 ‘You Were the Dead, Their’s Was the Future…’, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK

‘Who is the Third that Walks Beside You?’, Matthew Bown gallery, London, UK

Reza Aramesh, Watermans Centre, London, UK

‘We’ve Lost the Hearts and Minds… E: vent gallery, London, UK

2006 Live Action ‘I am a Believer’, commissioned by ICA, Trafalgar Square, London, UK

2005 Live Action, ‘The Key of Dreams’, Gasworks Gallery, London, UK

Live Action ‘Of this Men Shall Know Nothing’, Thomas Goode Shop, London, UK

2003 ‘The Eternal Spring’, Laurence O’Hana Gallery, London, UK

2002 ‘Picture This..’, Platform Gallery, London, UK

 GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2011 ‘Light’ (part 1), Paradise Row, London, UK

2009 ‘Relaunch’, Sunbury House, London, UK

2008 ‘Los Vinilos’, Zoo Art fair, London, UK

Event Horizon, GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK

2007 Space Invasion, an International Offspace Project, various venues, Vienna, Austria

2007 ‘Los Vinilos’, Buenos Aires, Argentina

‘The Politics of Fear’, Albion gallery, London, UK

‘Temporary Measures’, Associate Gallery, London, UK

2006 ‘Making a Scene’, curated by Tal Yahas Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

‘Metropolis Rise: New Art from London’, CQL Design Centre, Shanghai and 798 Art District, Beijing, China

Culture Bound, East Wing Collection VII, Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London, UK

2005 ‘Defense’, University of California, Sweeney Art Gallery, USA

Contemporary Drawings, curated by Synthesis, Athens, Greece

‘We Have Met The Enemy and He is Us’, curated by Shezad Dawood, Redux Project Space, London, UK

2004 ‘So You’re Afraid of What?’, curated by Centrefold, Redux Project Space, London, UK

‘Copy-art.net’, curated by Irini Papadimitriou, ICA, London, UK

‘Gewalt’, curated by Suhall Malik, Laushy Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Sir ® Eel: The Suit since ’68: The Politics of Revulsion, curated by Peter Lewis, Redux Project Space, London, UK

2001 ‘What if I Told the Truth?’, curated by Reza Aramesh, Cell Projects, London, UK

‘Trick Peaser’, curated by Luke Oxley, Mandarin Duck, London, UK

‘Teeth and Trousers’, curated by Richard Priestly, Cell Projects, London, UK

‘Forever Yours’, curated by Reza Aramesh, Victoria House, London, UK

‘Heart of Glass’, curated by Esther Windsor, London College of Printing, London, UK 

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIP:

2007 Nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award

2006 Nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award

2006 Artsadmin Bursary

2006 Arts Council of England grant for the ‘I am a Believer’ show hosted by the ICA

2004 London Arts Research and Development grant, Arts Council