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Front/ back cover image:

Glenn LigonStudy for Negro Sunshine #1192012Oil stick, coal dust and gesso on paper12 x 9 in

ALI BANISADR The Chase, 2011Estimate $180,000–250,000

Enquiries London +44 020 7293 5714Doha +974 4452 8333New York +1 212 606 7254Register now at sothebys.com

CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTIONDOHA 13 OCTOBER 2014

SOTHEBY’S, INC. LICENSE NO. 1216058. © SOTHEBY’S, INC. 2014

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Tuesday 16 – Thursday 18 September 2014 9:00am-5:00pm Exhibition open to the public, Sotheby’s Los Angeles

Tuesday 16 September 2014 7:00-9:00pm Private View and Cocktail Reception, Sotheby’s Los Angeles

Wednesday 17 September 2014 7:00-10:00pm Launch of Iran:RPM Vol. 2 and B|ta’arof Magazine Issue #3, Levantine Cultural Center, Los Angeles

Friday 7 – Tuesday 11 November 2014Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Sale Exhibition open to the public, Sotheby’s New York Featuring artwork donated to MOP

Wednesday 12 November 2014Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Day Sale Artwork donated to MOP auctioned by Sotheby’s

INSPIRATION INSISTENCE ASPIRATION PERSISTENCE

MOP 10th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EXHIBITION & FUNDRAISING AUCTION

IN THE PRESENCE OF DISTINGUISHED ARTIST

Parviz Tanavoli AND GUEST OF HONOUR Ali Bakhtiar

Born in 1937 in Tehran, Parviz Tanavoli is known as the forefather of modern sculpture in Iran. He was one of the key founders of Saqqakhaneh, an artistic movement that began in Iran in the 1960s, and has influenced two generations of artists. Tanavoli has achieved global fame for his artistic practice. He has held solo exhibitions in Iran, Europe, Dubai, United States and Canada and has participated in numerousbiennales and group exhibitions. His work appears in many valuable collections around the world including the British Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Esfahan City Centre; and Royal Society of Fine Arts, Amman. A passionate collector and researcher in the area of Iranian craft, Tanavoli’s books and research on Rugs, Jewellery, Ceramics, and Sormehdan, to name a few, have been among the most important contributions to Iranian crafts and public art. Tanavoli’s career isinfused with a deep passion, knowledge and understanding of Iran’s rich visual and literary heritage. Because of the love and care that he has for his people, and for Iranian art and culture, Parviz Tanavoli has been one of the most valuable supporters of MOP since 2007. As an artist, teacher, scholar, collector, and generous forefather of Iran’s Modern art, Tanavoli has embraced our cause and has helped us to help many. On behalf of those who have benefited from our programmes we would like to express our sincere appreciation to our distinguished friend Ostad Tanavoli, for his generosity and support.

PARVIZ TANAVOLI

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Achieving over 15 years of experience in architectural and interior design, wedding and event planning Ali Bakhtiar is the founder of the Ali Bakhtiar Foundation and Ali Bakhtiar Design LLC, an international company focused on high-end projects for clients around the world. Successfully accomplishing numerous projects across the globe the Ali Bakhtiar Foundation has been one of the principal sponsors of MOP since 2007. Ali Bakhtiar, with his extensive talent and generous heart, along with the support of his dedicated team, has been the core figure of MOP galas and fundraising events with their stunning stage designs, astonishing dance floors, beautiful table settings, breathtaking flower arrangements, and electric lighting. MOP, on behalf of those who have benefited from our programmes would like to extend its deepest gratitude to the distinguished award-winning Ali Bakhtiar for his generous support, patient guidance, committed team, unique talent, and whole-hearted care for our vision.

ALI BAKHTIAR

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Well, we’ve reached the magic number 10! 10 years since MOP came into being on a whim and a whisper, an idea born of love of culture, country and art all rolled into one, rolling across the international cultural landscape to present a platform for contemporary art from Iran. Why Iran? Well, apart from being Iranian with the love of country and its culture, I’ve always believed that culture is the best bridging tool for social intercourse across borders and political boundaries. We are always fighting the odds in such a cultural exercise given our mortal presence and the speed of change. How swift the passage of time in the face of history? How tortuous and slow the contemporary seems set against the grand schemes of that history? How small our collective and individual contributions appear when facing the daunting tide of change? Cultural bridging, even small attempts, could lead to people crossing divides, venturing to the other side of steadfast beliefs born in the heat of national, religious and cultural self-interest. In the last decade, through our various initiatives we have tried to tap into this latent energy and make sense and order of life through the language of art. Contemporary art to match the contemporary scene, as reflected on a piece of canvas, a sculpture, a video installation or a photograph magic-ing out the mood of the moment. MOP is a portal through which a great number of Iranian artists have been given the opportunity to develop their artistic and professional aspirations. Through our art and education programmes including the Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize (MOP CAP), collective projects and international involvement, MOP has expanded its field of activities to engage in a critical discourse and cultural exchange.

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Aiming to attain a significant voice in the vast cultural landscape, MOP presents a dynamic programme of exhibitions, talks and cross-disciplinary events with both emerging and established artists in the UK, USA, and UAE. To show the brilliance and magnificence of Iranian artists set against their daily struggles, often facing impossible odds. To see the nation and its people in a different light, to platform the vibrant intellectual and artistic scenes, to highlight hidden talent and to promote and preserve the artistic production. The success of MOP in the last 10 years has been made possible by the goodwill of its staff, its patrons and partners, the international artistic community, and last but not least the generous support of the donating artists who see worth and value in our enterprise. Admittedly, it’s been hard work this past ten years, tougher at times than others. But we’ve been inspired, we’ve insisted, we have aspired and persisted, so that today we can proudly present our programmes, projects and activities on an expanded field and explore new possibilities. I invite you all to take part, to see, to feel and to taste the moment in our enlightening process so that you too can grasp what has been realised so far, and what could be achieved in the future with your individual support. Our sincere thanks to each and every one of you who have shared our vision, offered your tireless support, and provided generous assistance to MOP these past ten years.

Here’s to the next decade!

Shirley Elghanian

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Delfina Foundation, artist residencies, LondonDifferent Perspectives on Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art, artist lectures and seminars, British Museum, LondonFarhang Foundation, Los AngelesGoldsmiths College University of London, Master of Research Curatorial/Knowledge, London Kanoon Iran, Iranian Cultural Centre, LondonLondon Film School, MA Filmmaking Scholarships, LondonMagic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize (MOP CAP) 2015, London & DubaiMagic of Persia & Parasol unit Research Residency, London Omid Foundations, LondonParasol unit, education workshops, London Publication GrantsQueens Museum, artist residency grant, New York

MOP BENEFICIARIES 2014 I 2015

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Magic of Persia (MOP) promotes Iranian art and culture to a wider audience outside of Iran, and strives to make a notable contribution to its long-term advancement worldwide. This is accomplished by establishing programmes in modern and contemporary Iranian art, music, media and academia in partnership with world-class institutions.

MOP’s programmes include:

The Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize (MOP CAP), a global search for the next generation of Iranian visual artists

Curate Archive, an online residency open to Iranian/ non-Iranian curators and cultural practitioners

Art residencies and exhibitions for young Iranian artists at the Delfina Foundation, Parasol unit and Royal College of Art in London

Scholarships and grants in higher education at the Royal College of Art, London Film School, and Goldsmiths University of London

A series of artists’ panel discussions entitled ‘Different Perspectives on Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art’ in collaboration with the British Museum.

Family days bringing together more than 120,000 people at the British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum in London

The charity’s primary source of funding derives from the auction of artwork generously donated by established and emerging Iranian and international artists. Conducted by Christie’s and Sotheby’s, and held in the US, Europe and the Middle East, the success of these fundraising events relies entirely on the participation and support of artists and patrons alike. Sponsorship from organisations and individuals also support MOP’s various projects.

MOP

MOP is a non-political, non-religious UK registered charity #11004066.

The Friends of MOP Foundation (EIN #20-3773879) is a public charity that is exempt from US Federal Income Tax under section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code.

MOP CAP 2015

SELECTION COMMITTEE

Shiva Balaghi, Professor and HistorianDr. Hamid Keshmirshekan, Art Historian, Critic, and EditorSohrab Mohebbi, Curator and Writer

The Judging Panel will be announced in Autumn 2014.

October 2014 l LondonAnnouncement of the Shortlist

March 2015 l Dubai Shortlist Exhibition Announcement of the Finalists

October 2015 l LondonFinalist Exhibition Announcement of the Winner

The Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize (MOP CAP) is a worldwide search for the next generation of contemporary Iranian visual artists who have the potential to make a significant impact in their field. The goal of the prize is to provide an opportunity for emerging artists to gain international exposure, and to engage in artistic experimentation and cultural exchange. Through its archival material, including an online artist database and printed publications, MOP CAP aims to provide an educational interchange and contribute to the development of Iranian art and culture.

Background image:

Anahita NorouziOne Hundred Cypresses2013Video documentation

MOP CAP 2013 Finalist

CURATE ARCHIVE An online residency programme open to artists/curators/cultural practitioners across the globe, which aims to operate as a dialogical structure to enunciate possibilities and impossibilities of working with ‘archive’. This project intends to provide opportunities for a re-presentation of its extensive archive through an online platform within a curatorial approach.

Since the launch of MOP CAP in 2008, hundreds of portfolios submitted by Iranian artists have established a thought-provoking archive of artworks and text-based material. As an on-going project, MOP CAP is generating new data every other year and expanding the archive excessively. Through CURATE ARCHIVE an artist/curator/writer/researcher will be appointed by MOP every four months, to reflect upon the existing MOP CAP archive of emerging Iranian artists, encouraging an open exchange of knowledge in the form of an online exhibition, including textual materials and weblogs.

This archive will be accessible to the public from 2015

CURATE ARCHIVE

ACCEPTING PROPOSALS THROUGH AN ONLINE PROCESS OPEN TO IRANIAN/NON-IRANIAN CULTURAL PRACTITIONERS THIS AUTUMN

More details to follow www.mopcap.com

CURATE ARCHIVE is supported by British Council

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Magic of Persia would like to acknowledge the tireless support of all of the artists, galleries and patrons without whom this event would not have been possible.

AILEEN AGOPIANPOOYA ARYANPOURALIREZA ASTANEHAUN GALLERYAYYAM GALLERYSAEED BABBAEENMOHAMMAD BAHABADISASSAN BEHNAM BAKHTIARMOHAMMAD BOZORGISUZY ELGHANAYANWALID EL MASRIMEHRAN ELMINIANAFISEH EMRANSONIA ERAMLALLA ESSAYDIMANDANA FARAHMANDHABIB FARAJABADINAZ FARZANEHFARHANG FOUNDATIONMAHYA FATEMIANDREA FIUCZYNSKIJOHANNA FLAUMSARAH FLORAIDA GIRONHOMEIRA GOLDSTEINGUSFORD GALLERYHASSAN HAJJAJNARGES HAMZIANPOURMIETY HEIDENKASHYA HILDEBRANDHOMA GALLERYSHEREE HOVSEPIANJACQUELINE HSURASHID JOHNSON

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Sia Salek

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HUSHANG ANSARI I CUCINA BENE

DJ DAVID I PARY ELGHANAYAN I STEVEN ELGHANAYAN

EMPTY VASE I JAMES LINDON

ROGER LOW I FARHAD MATLOOB

EBRAHIM MELAMED I MORRIS ASSOCIATES

SIA SALEK I LHMA>;R�L

STAN TOMCHIN I STEVEN SANDERS

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS

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DONATING ARTISTS 2004 I 2014

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DZAMIL KAMANGARY.Z. KAMINIKKI KARIMIARIA KASAEIHOSSEIN KASHIANBABAK KAZEMINAEEME KAZEMIKAMRAN KHAVARANIAVISH KHEBREHZADEHABBAS KIAROSTAMIABBAS KOWSARIBEHDAD LAHOUTIFARIDEH LASHAIGLENN LIGONHOSSEIN MADANITALA MADANIREZA MAFIFARROKH MAHDAVISHAHRIAR MAZANDIJULIE MEHRETUFARSHID MESGHALIAMIR MOBEDARDESHIR MOHASSESMEHRDAD MOHEBALIAHMAD MORSHEDLOOMORVARIDFARHAD MOSHIRIALI MOUSAVICARTER MULLSTEVEN NAIFEHKAVEH NAJMABADIMOHAMMAD NAMAZIALI NASSIRMALEKEH NAYINYARASH NAZARIDANA NEHDARANDARIUSH NEHDARANSHIRIN NESHATNICKY NODJOUMIFEREYDOUN OMIDIFARAH OSSOULINASSER OVISSILEILA PAZOOKIFARAMARZ PILARAMTAHER POURHEIDARISHAHPOUR POUYANMYRIAM QUIELIMAN RAADFARNAZ RABIEJAHSAGHAR RAD

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2004

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2005

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Held in conjunction with the exhibition Forgotten Empire: The Splendours of Ancient Persia, 15,000 people participated this multi-medium interactive learning event featuring performing artists, film and storytellers.

Interactive workshops held to raise awareness of the history of Ancient Persia.

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Benefit dinner featuring honorary speakers Lord Temple-Morris, President of the Iran Society and Camila Batmanghelidjh, Founder and Director of Kids Company. Funds were raised in support of Omid Foundations and the MOP Education Programme.

Weekend of events held in conjunction with the opening of the permanent exhibition at the Jameel Islamic Gallery.

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A two-week exhibition of auction highlights featuring artwork donated to the Magical Nights Charity Art Auction, curated by Ebrahim Melamed.

Funds raised for the MOP Education Programme at the British Museum.

2007

AFSOON I NADER AHRIMAN I SHIRIN ALIABADI I KAMROOZ ARAM I POOYA ARYANPOUR I ANDISHEH AVINI BEHZAD BEHNAM I HENRY DALLAL I IRAN DARROUDI I MOHAMMAD EHSAEIYAGHOUB EMDADIAN I BITA FAYYAZI I SHAHAB FOTOUHI SHADI GHADIRIAN I RAMIN HAERIZADEH ROKNY HAERIZADEH I PEYMAN HOOSHMANDZADEH BAHMAN JALALI I Y.Z. KAMI AVISH KHEBREHZADEH I FARIDEH LASHAI FARHAD MOSHIRI I SHIRIN NESHAT I NASSER OVISSI MYRIAM QUIEL I BEHROUZ RAE GHASS ROUZKHOSH I SADEGH TABRIZI PARVIZ TANAVOLI I MOHAMMAD TATARI

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Thirty-one artists donated artwork to a Christie’s conducted auction with sales totalling $1.2 million in benefit of the Future Centre for Special Needs in Abu Dhabi, the Al Noor Training Centre for Children with Special Needs in Dubai and the Encyclopaedia Iranica.

A classical Iraninan concert with performances by Satar and Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam.

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Funds raised to benefit the MOP Education Programme atthe British Museum.

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Featuring keynote speaker Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

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2009

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FARHAD AHRARNIAMAHMOUD BAKHSHI [ MOP CAP 2009 WINNER ]VAHID CHAMANISAHAND HESAMIYANABBAS KOWSARINEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN

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2010

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NEDA RAZAVIPOUR I HAMED SAHIHI I OMID SALEHI I SHIRANA SHAHBAZI MAMALI SHAFAHI I ROZITA SHARAF JAHAN I VAHID SHARIFIAN I SADEGH TABRIZI JINOOS TAGHIZADEH I SHIDEH TAMI I PARVIZ TANAVOLI I NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN

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2010

NOVEMBER I =N;:B I 400Magical Nights Fundraising Concert Hg^���Hger�KhrZe�FbkZ`^A classical Iraninan concert with performances by Reza Derakhshani, Vida Edalat & the Saba Ensemble and Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam.

NOVEMBER I :;N�=A:;B I 450Magical Nights ?ng]kZblbg`�:n\mbhg�@ZeZ�RZl�Ahm^eA Christie’s conducted auction raising $1.1 million from the sale of donated artwork in benefit of The Future Centre for Special Needs in Abu Dhabi, the Magic of Persia Art Initiatives andEducation Programme and MOP CAP. Featuring keynote speaker His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Bin Mubarak Al Nahayan.

NOVEMBER I :;N�=A:;B�I 200Magical Nights EZ]b^l��IkboZm^�Ob^p�RZl�Ahm^e�A Ladies’ Private View of the Exhibition of Auction Highlights in the presence of HH Sheikha Shamma Bint Khalifa Bin Hamdan Al Nahayan.

2011

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F:K<A�I =N;:B I 150FHI�<:I�+)**�IZg^e�=bl\nllbhg�Cultural Brokering: Locational Allegiance and Transnational IdentityMkZ_Û\�@Zee^krPanelists: Ali Khadra, Idris Khan, Vali Mahloudj, Abaseh Mirvali,Matt Mottahedan, Hans-Ulrich Obrist

A one-week exhibition of the 25 shortlisted artists. The Judging Panel included Zaha Hadid, Ramin & Rokny Haerizadeh, Shirazeh Houshiary, Ali Khadra, Idris Khan, Abaseh Mirvali, Matt Mottahedan, Hans-Ulrich Obrist.

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NIYAZ AZADIKHANSHAHRZAD CHANGALVAEEMEHDI FARHADIANARASH FAYEZBABAK GOLKARDARIUSH NEHDARANHESAM RAHMANIANSHIRIN SABAHI [MOP CAP 2011 WINNER]

2012

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F:K<A�I =N;:B I 2,000Magical Nights >qab[bmbhg�h_�:n\mbhg�Ab`aeb`aml�LZelZeb�IkboZm^�Fnl^nfA two-week exhibition of auction highlights with over 80 works donated by 79 contemporary Iranian artists.

SHIVA AHMADI I FARHAD AHRARNIA I SHIRIN ALIABADI I KAMROOZ ARAM REZA ARAMESH I POOYA ARYANPOUR I ABOL ATIGHETCHI I FEREYDOUN AVE SHOJA AZARI & SHAHRAM KARIMI I MAHMOUD BAKHSHI I ALI BANISADR BEHZAD BEHNAM I HENRY DALLAL I GOHAR DASHTI SHIRIN FAKHIM I BITA FAYYAZI I SHADI GHADIRIAN I RAMIN HAERIZADEH ROKNY HAERIZADEH I NARGESS HASHEMI I AVISH KHEBREHZADEH I FARIDEH LASHAI TALA MADANI I FARSHID MESGHALI I ARDESHIR MOHASSES I MEHRDAD MOHEBALI SHIRIN NESHAT I NICKY NODJOUMI I LEILA PAZOOKI I IMAN RAAD I SAGHAR RAD BIJAN SAFFARI I KOUROSH SALEHI I PARVIZ TANAVOLI I NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN SADEGH TIRAFKAN I FIROUZ ZAHEDI I CHARLES HOSSEIN ZENDEROUDIAFSOON I SHAHRIAR AHMADI I ALALEH ALAMIR I ALI ALAVI I HAMIDREZA ANDARZ SHAQAYEQ ARABI I MARYAM ASHKANIAN I ALIREZA ASTANEH NIYAZ AZADIKHAH I JAVAD AZIMI I SHAHRZAD CHANGALVAEE ALA DEHGHAN I YASMINE ESFANDIARY I ARASH FAYEZ I MOHSEN FOULADPOUR FARHAD FOZOUNI I MINA GHAZIANI I BABAK GOLKAR I SAHAND HESAMIYAN HOSSEIN IRANDOUST I ARIA KASAEI I NIKKI KARIMI I NAEEME KAZEMI FARROKH MAHDAVI I SHAHRIAR MAZANDI ALI MOUSAVI I ALI NASSIR I ARASH NAZARI I DANA NEHDARANDARIUSH NEHDARAN I FEREYDOUN OMIDI I SHAHPOUR POUYAN FARNAZ RABIEJAH I HESAM RAHMANIAN I SHIRIN SABAHI I OMID SALEHI YASHAR SAMIMI MOFAKHAM I MAMALI SHAFAHI I ARMAN STEPANIAN ATOOSA VAHDANI I MEHRAN ZIRAK

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A gala dinner and auction conducted by Christie’s and attended by 59 donating artists. Funds were raised to benefit Kids Company, London; Omid Foundations, London; and the Future Centre for Special Needs, Abu Dhabi.

A Ladies’ Private View of auction highlights in the presence ofHH Sheikha Shamma Bint Khalifa Bin Hamdan Al Nahayan, HH Sheikha Mouza Bint Mubarak, HH Sheikha Osha Bint Shaikhbut, HH Sheikha Bint Saif and other members of the Al Nahayan family.

2012

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2013F:K<A�I =N;:B I 500FHI�<:I�+)*,�Lahkmeblm�>qab[bmbhg>?M%�=B?<A week-long exhibition of the 19 shortlisted artists and announcement of the seven finalists. The Judging Panel included Phillipa Adams,Dr Ziba Ardalan, Mat Collishaw, Dr. Anthony Downey, Professor Irit Rogoff and Payam Sharifi.

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Aileen Agopian joined Sotheby’s in 2011 as the Senior International Specialist of Contemporary Art. Ms. Agopian is known for her expertise and strategic vision of the contemporary art market, focusing on Post-1980s art, and her well-recognized strength as a key advisor for private sales to clients worldwide.

Ms. Agopian played a pivotal role in Sotheby’s successful sale of Contemporary Art in Doha (April 2013), bringing the highest total ever achieved for any Contemporary Art auction taking place in the Middle East. She was instrumental in achieving nine new artists records, including the world record for Julie Mehretu’s Rising Down, as well as the record for a living Arab Artist. As an accomplished auctioneer, Ms. Agopian conducts sales for Sotheby’s worldwide, and has auctioneered charity auctions across the globe in Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Kuwait, and Beirut.

Prior to joining Sotheby’s, Ms. Agopian was a key member of the global team at Phillips from 2000 to 2010 and their primary auctioneer since 2005. From 1996-2000, Ms. Agopian was a dynamic force as the sales director in London at White Cube. Ms. Agopian graduated cum laude from Tufts University with a BA in Art History and French Literature, and completed her Master’s Degree with Honors in Post-War and Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute in London.

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[ Excerpt from the artist’s exhibition catalogue at Boom Gallery, Tehran, 2014 ]

Pooya AryanpourUnfinished Bridge2014Acrylic on canvas66.9 in diameterCourtesy of the artist

Guide Price: $30,000

Unfinished Bridge from Pooya Aryanpour’s new series entitled ‘Transient Dreams in Passing Fantasy’, are “forms of organic phenomena of the past that reminisce dissected or lacerated organs recreated through blending with residual materials and elements of oriental fantasy.” Aryanpour has held several solo exhibitions in Sweden and Iran and participated in a number of group shows internationally. Aryanpour’s work has been included in sales at auction houses such as Christies’ and Bonhams.

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Alireza AstanehThe Red Love 2014Relief on canvas with nails59 x 59 in Courtesy of the artist

Guide Price: $4,000

Astaneh is a mixed media artist living and working in Tehran. Nakhoni Script [employed on this series of Astaneh’s work] is a method in which the artist embosses and makes writing apparent only through a slight pressure of his fingernails on the back of a delicate piece of paper. A skilled calligrapher and painter, Astaneh’s interest in Nakhoni Script is not only to demonstrate his skill and extraordinary technical ability, rather he is attracted to very different and novel compositions and parallel to writing Nasta’liq script.

[ Excerpt from a text by Aydin Aghdashloo on the artist’s website ]

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Mohammad BahabadiRed for Red 2014Mixed media50 x 30 in Courtesy of the artist and Aun Gallery

Guide Price: $5,000

In connection with his background in literature and language, Bahabadi’s recent series of work is a superimposition of an artistic statement by a Yazdi artist onto various rug patterns in a poetic format. The text repeated on each rug pattern humorously reflects on the difficulties of being an artist in Yazd, Bahabadi’s home town. The rug drawings are taken from original designs and illustrated with calligraphy.

[ Excerpt from artist’s statement from Aun Gallery, Tehran ]

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Sassan Behnam BakhtiarCap-Ferrat2014Luster photo paper 37.4 x 37.4 in Edition 2 of 4Courtesy of the artist

Guide Price: $3,500

One of Sassan Behnam Bakhtiar’s most recent body of works - The Real Me Part I series - is a clear representation of the reality behind most Iranians today contrary to what the global media tries to portray. This series of works is a result of the artist’s frustration towards the orchestrated international brainwash of media organisations against his fellow nationals.”

[ Excerpt from an article written by Samir Ceric, 2014 ]

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Mohammad BozorgiDestiny 32013Acrylic on canvas46.4 x 70.9 in Courtesy of the artist

Guide Price: $10,000

Mohammad Bozorgi approaches calligraphy with an architectural eye that is evident in the mathematical structure and symmetry of letters, especially those comprising his Crying for Honour series. Bozorgi’s masterful command of the centuries-old tradition is the result of intensive studies in classical calligraphic forms. After training with the Society of Iranian Calligraphers for over a decade, Bozorgi left to pursue more innovative calligraphic forms. Drawing from his background in engineering, he makes quantitative calculations when constructing his works, using thedirectives of geometry to create abstract illusions of movement and space. Building on the breakthroughs of his predecessors, such as those who led the Saqqakhaneh school of Iranian painters in the 1960s, Bozorgi is recognized as a leading figure among the “New Generation” of contemporary calligraphers.

[ Excerpt from the artist’s website ]

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Walid El MasriThe Vow Tree2013Mixed media on canvas39.4 x 31.5 inCourtesy of the artist and Ayyam Gallery, London

Guide Price: $6,000

In his new series, Syrian artist Walid El Masri continues formal investigations of movement, repetition, and the transcendence of the boundaries of the picture plane through expressive compositions that utilize space to create a sense of instability in the representation of time. Here, movement refers to four stages in the life-cycle of a butterfly, with a cocoon being, “the silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects, as silkworms, serving as a covering while they are in the pupal stage,” whereas repetition refers to multiple representations of the same subject, and transcendence refers to the reach beyond the physical limits of the canvas, causing the viewer to find himself in media res, surrounded by pictorial elements.

[ Excerpt from a statement on his 2014 exhibition at Ayyam Gallery, London ]

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Mehran ElminiaUntitled 2014Mixed media31.5 x 23.6 inCourtesy of the artist

Guide Price: $5,000

The works of Iranian painter Mehran Elminia hover between abstractionism andunintentional figuration, an enormous variety of brush strokes, form and his vivid palette. He often works for up to twenty hours at a stretch, never being further away than a meter from the canvas, and attempts to arrive at an almost ecstatic state where he can totally lose himself in the act of painting. Mehran Elminia was born in 1975 in Tabriz, Iran and currently lives and works in Tehran. He has exhibited with several galleries and at art fairs in Italy including Rome International Art Fair and Milan International Art Fair. He has exhibited in solo exhibitions in Tehran and London as well as group exhibitions in Dubai and Rome.

[ Excerpt from artist’s profile, Saatchi Online ]

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Nafiseh EmranGG BG2011Acrylic on canvas65 x 59 inCourtesy of the artist and Aun Gallery

Guide Price: $3,000

“This is an invitation to an odd show whose actors are purposefully placed in a staged historical scene. While depicting different aspects of our lives, I question our role in society at large and how we confront contradictions. The scenes from my plays are current, while the actors are derived from another time; the mise-en-scene is derived from traditional Iranian theatre (Roo-Hozi in Farsi), circus with dolls and cartoon characters. I juxtapose real and imaginary, colourful and black & white in my paintings to create a spectacular scene without making a statement. I place my characters like ancient Iranian portrait painters; however, I try to achieve a contemporary multifaceted and carnival like result. A show from ourselves and from our memories.”

[ Excerpt from the artist’s statement from Aun Gallery, Tehran ]

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Lalla EssaydiBullet 32009Chromogenic print40.2 x 29.9 inEdition of 15Courtesy of Kashya Hildebrand Gallery

Guide Price: $18,000

Lalla A. Essaydi grew up in Morocco and now lives in the USA where she received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/TUFTS University in May 2003. Her art, which often combines Islamic calligraphy with representations of the female body, addresses the complex reality of Arab female identity from the unique perspective of personal experience. In much of her work, she returns to her Moroccan girlhood, looking back on it as an adult woman caught somewhere between past and present, and as an artist, exploring thelanguage in which to “speak” from this uncertain space. Her paintings often appropriate Orientalist imagery from the Western painting tradition, thereby inviting viewers to reconsider the Orientalist mythology. She has worked in numerous media, includingpainting, video, film, installation, and analog photography.

[ Excerpt from the artist’s website ]

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Habib FarajabadiUntitled2013Acrylic on Canvas27.5 x 27.5 in eachCourtesy of the artist and Homa Gallery

Guide Price: $3,000

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Born in 1982 Farajabadi is a self-taught Iranian artist from Shahrood, Iran. Farajabadi has made a name for himself through prolific exhibitions both within Iran and abroad. Insisting on his canvases remaining unprepared and untreated in the conventional way of painting, Farajabadi conceives his work in a unique manner: the canvases are turned over and heavily stitched together in an uncanny resemblance to a “barrier”, after which the artist proceeds to paint on the reverse side of these gesso free surfaces. Favouring extreme abstraction, Farajabadi nevertheless betrays a prediliction for the human figure and a penchant for raw, unschooled drawing.

[ Excerpt from Habib Farajabadi: Rummage, from Mottahedan Projects, Dubai]

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Hassan HajjajMalicious Look in Green2000Digital C Type15.3 x 13.2 inCourtesy of the artist

Guide Price: $4,500

“At the heart of Hajjaj’s eclectic practice is a celebration of the popular visual culture of the Moroccan market or souk, and its integrated role within the souk as a social space for interaction and exchange. Fusing pop cultural influences from his dual cultural experiences, the interior brings together such recycled North African objects as road signs transformed into table-tops, and upturned Coca-Cola crates made into stools, with refined handcrafted items such as kilim cushions, lanterns and kitsch, and 1970’s household items. The riot of colour, playful juxtaposition of patterns, and co-existence of old and new creates an ebullient, feel-good environment.”

[ Excerpt from Zahed Sultan, 2008, M.I.A. Gallery ]

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Sheree HovsepianSleight of Hand #762013C print39.8 x 29.9 inEdition 1 of 3Courtesy of the artist and BISCHOFF/ WEISS

Guide Price: $6,500

“These photographs are made in my studio where I use multiple exposures, within the camera, to make abstract forms. Between exposures, I move or shift the object being photographed. The studio is important conceptually to these works. I move in and out of the picture to manipulate the objects. In this way, I see these works as recording a performance within the studio. The wall and floor of the studio create a stage, or horizon line. I use studio experimentation as a vehicle to explore abstraction. This work takes on greater conceptual bearing when viewed in context of the “Decisive Moment” ofphotography. The phrase, coined by Henri Cartier Bresson, describes the precise instant that a photograph is captured. This way of thinking about the photographic image has been a guiding philosophy of modern photography. The Sleight of Hand series is made through a series of decisions. There is not one single moment, rather several over time, culminating in the finished photograph.”

[ Artist statement on the Sleight of Hand Series]

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Rashid JohnsonThe New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Butter Hold)2011Silver gelatin print40 x 30 inEdition of 3 + 2 APCourtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Guide Price: $15,000

Johnson’s series ‘The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club’ (2008 - ongoing) revisits Johnson’s interest in portraiture within the setting of a fictional organisation modelled after African American secret society, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, also known as the Boulé, the first Greek-letter fraternity to be founded by African American men. Images in the series capture a similar sentiment to the work of James Van Der Zee, who documented real sports teams, churches, schools, and clubs during the Harlem Renaissance. The character of ‘The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Butter Hold)’ cradles a lump of shea butter, a material abundantly used in Johnson’s work that is much admired for its soothing and healing properties.

[ Excerpt from artist’s statement ]

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Dzamil KamangarThe Iran Visa2014Bead knitting 17.7 x 15.7 in

Courtesy of the artist Guide Price: $22,000

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The Iranian Passport2014Bead knitting12.2 x 6.3 in

The US Passport2014Bead knitting 12.2 x 6.3 in

The US Visa2014Bead knitting 17.7 x 15.7 in

Dzamil Kamanger (born 1948 Kurdistan, Iran) is a visual artist living in Finland. Kamanger’s works combine traditional Central Asian craft skills with modern themes. He presents four beadworks made using a traditional Kurdish technique. As an Iranian Kurd, Kamanger is experienced in these things, because he arrived in Finland over 15 years ago as a political refugee. He has seen in practice the difference that travelling with different passports can make.

[ Excerpt from the artist’s statement ]

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Glenn LigonStudy for Negro Sunshine #1192012Oil stick, coal dust and gesso on paper12 x 9 in Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine

Guide Price: $20,000

Glenn Ligon is a New York based Conceptual artist. Taken from a 1909 novella by Gertrude Stein about a mixed-race woman, “negro sunshine” is the kind of ambiguous phrase that Ligon uses to speak of the history of African-Americans. Since the 1980s Ligon has been using phrases written or uttered by personalities such as Mary Shelley, James Baldwin and Malcolm X. These phrases are often oblique raising controversial or mysterious questions and leaving the viewer to work for the answers.

[ Excerpt from ‘The Inside Story on Outsiderness’ by Carol Vogel, NY Times ]

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Julie MehretuUntitled 2014Watercolour on paper 16 ½ x 23 ¼ in Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Guide Price: $50,000

Julie Mehretu makes large-scale, gestural paintings that are built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making using pencil, pen, ink and thick streams of paint. Mehretu’s work conveys a layering and compression of time, space and place and a collapse of art historical references, from the dynamism of the Italian Futurists and the geometric abstraction of Malevich to the enveloping scale of Abstract Expressionist colour field painting. In her highly worked canvases, Mehretu creates new narratives using abstracted images of cities, histories, wars andgeographies with a frenetic mark making that for the artist becomes a way of signifying social agency as well as suggesting an unravelling of a personal biography.

(Excerpt from the artist’s statement)

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Carter Mull

Carter Mull studies the construction of identity. He is particularly interested in the relationship of the individual with the community, including an analysis of how identity is constructed using the trademark and other cultural symbols. Strict codes of the world of fashion and consumerism, as well as their communication through image, are the central themes of Mull’s latest exhibition at the CAPC in Bordeaux. In redesigning the symbols of fashion and mass culture, he updates the social mechanisms and creates his own visual world. Garish colours, logos, typography and screenshots of online shops for hipsters are careful pictorial material of the artist, through which he questions the status and production of consumer goods and, hence, the art.

[ Excerpt taken from a statement for We Tell Apple Stories in Order to Live, CAPC, Bordeaux ]

Talking With Objects2013-14Vibra and ultraviolet ink, acrylic and printed, perforated vinyl on chiffon, dispersion and acrylic on prepared muslin64 x 44 x 1 ¼ inCourtesy of the artist

Guide Price: $24,000

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Born in Iran in 1952 to American diplomats, Steven Naifeh lives and works in Aiken, South Carolina. During his childhood – spent throughout the Middle East, including Iran, Iraq, Jordan, and the U.A.E. - Naifeh became enamored by the beauty of the geometric shapes and patterns that decorated everything from the textiles to the buildings of the Islamic world. Naifeh also became interested in the mathematical basis of these shapes, and has adapted those ancient formulas to modern purposes in conceiving his geometric, often large-scale works. Naifeh is perhaps best known as the co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (with Gregory White Smith). His most recent work, Van Gogh: The Life (also with Smith,) has been praised as “definitive” by the curator of Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and was named “Art Book of the Year” by The Times of London.

[ Excerpt from artist biography, Leila Heller Gallery ]

Steven NaifehSaida XI: Hunter Green2010Acrylic on 60 canvases 87 x 87 inCourtesy of the artist and Leila Heller Gallery

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Shirin Neshat

“In large part the ambiguities of difference between men and women, between Islam and democracy, between Western and Iranian feminists that remained dormant in Neshat’s earlier work find their expression in her 2009 film Women Without Men, which won her The Venice Film Festival’s Silver Lion (best director) award. It’s in Women Without Men that we clearly see women’s lives are imperiled only when they remove themselves from the enclaves of women’s homosociety.”

[ Excerpt from an article by G. Roger Denson, Huffington Post, 2010 ]

Pari from the ‘Women without Men’ Series2008Color print and original calligraphy with ink14 x 18 inEdition 20 of 25Courtesy of the artist

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Shirin Neshat

“In Passage (2001), we find a more nuanced if also more mystical vision of women discreetly collaborating to achieve a common end. On screen we witness a ritualistic unity at work as the women move through a desert of obvious symbolic isolation whereby they areenabled to break free from the constraints imposed on them by men - however transiently and however isolated from Iranian society such outbreaks mark them. It matters little that the actions the segregated men and women performed in Neshat’s films and photographs are ritualistically ambiguous, prone to portentous signification and spectacle, or appear poetically obscure, even absurd (men marching herd-like through a desert; women forming a huddle on their knees to dig a hole in the desert with their bare hands as they become encircled by fire). The message that is central is the determination andsolidarity forged in homosocialization -- in the desire (whether asexual or sexual) to enjoy the companionship and collective productivity of one’s own sex.”

[ Excerpt from an article by G. Roger Denson, Huffington Post, 2010 ]

From the Passage series2001Gelatin silver print22.5 x 18.8 inCourtesy of the artist

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Taher PourheidariPale Blue Pool2013Oil on canvas45.3 x 74.8 inCourtesy of the artist

Guide Price: $4,000

Taher Pourheidari was born in 1984 in Kerman and currently lives in Tehran. Abandoned, leftover spaces, and houses lost in memories, are spaces reminiscent of his paintings. He describes a locality replete with memories. Using layers of paint, he depicts aging walls, floors and objects, and rarely uses figures in his paintings except for an occasional lone child, staring out in silence. The houses and neighborhoods are used to show the concepts of oblivion and constant change; a transformation that sometimes destroys innocence and beauty, replacing it with something coarse and soulless.

[ Excerpt from the artist’s profile, Saatchi Online ]

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Adriana VarejãoPanacea Phantastica 2003Silk screen printing on tiles Variable dimensionsEdition 219/1,000Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong

Guide Price: $8,000

“Panacea Phantastica” consists in taxonomy of 50 hallucinogenic plants from all over the world, from South and Central America to Asia, passing through Europe and the Middle East. It is accompanied by a scientific text that refers to the effect of the hallucinogenic plants. In this work the artist uses this idea as a reference to the sensation that art provokes on people. “Panacea Phantastica” is a multiple of 1.000 editions. Each edition is composed by 101 tiles: 51 silk-screened (1 text and 50 hallucinogenic plants) and 50 white, measuring 6.06 x 6.06 in each one. There are many installation options; the tiles can be placed on a wall, on a bench or on a table, etc.

[ Excerpt from the artist’s statement ]

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POOYA ARYANPOURB. 1971

EDUCATION MA Painting, Azad University, Tehran, 1999 | BA Painting, Azad University, Tehran, 1997 | Diploma, Plastic Arts School, Tehran, 1993

SOLO EXHIBITIONS Transient Dreams in Passing Fantasies, Boom Gallery, Tehran, 2014 | Meem Gallery, Dubai, 2010 | The Cut, Aun Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | The Cut, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, 2009 | Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, 2007 | Cer-indipity Gallery, Sweden, 2004 | Barg Gallery, Tehran, 2000 | Barg Gallery, Tehran, 1998 | Barg Gallery, Tehran, 1994

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Abstraction & Expression, Mellat Gallery, Tehran, 2013 | Transparency, AB Gallery, Lu-cerne, 2013 | Iranian Heritage, Charity Event, London, 2013 | Artists for Conservation, Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 2013 | Color of Love, Assar Gallery, Tehran, 2012 | Khak Gallery, Tehran, 2010 | Faravahar Gallery, Tehran, 2010 | AB Gallery, Lucerne, 2010 | Radical Galley at Radical house, Zurich, 2009 | In the mood for paper, F2 gallery, Beijing, 2009 | Hussenot Gallery, Paris, 2009 | Dar Al-Funoon Gallery, Kuwait, 2009 | Mall Gallery, London, 2008 | Magic of Persia, Dubai, 2008 | Aria Gallery, Tehran, 2008 | Exhibition to aid Cancer Patients, Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, 2007 | Hoor Gallery, Tehran, 2007 | Maah Gallery, Tehran, 2006 | Islamic World Biennial, Saba Cultural Center, Tehran, 2006 | East of Dream, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, 2006 | Contemporary Iranian Art, Beijing, 2004 | Gardens of Iran, Conceptual Art Exhibi-tion, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, 2004 | Turning Points: Seven Iranian Artists, Columbia University, 2004 | The Sixth Painting Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, 2004 | Abim Group Exhibition, Mimara Museum, Zagreb, 2004 | A Spirtual Vision, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, 2004 | Abim Group Exhibition, Niavaran Cultur-al Center, Tehran, 2003 | Second Biennial of contemporary painting of the Islamic World, Tehran, Iran (The Winner) 2002 | Don O>Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, 2002 | A Breeze from the Garden of Persia, Meridian International Center, NY, DC, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Florida, Texas, Vermont, 2002 | Second Conceptual Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, 2002 | Exhibition to aid Earthquake Survivors, Tehran, 2002

ALIREZA ASTANEHB. 1982

EDUCATION PhD of Art in Calligraphy, 2014 | | BA Graphic

Design, Belford University of Texas, 2008 | Elite Diploma of the Iranian Calligraphers Society, 1997

SOLO EXHIBITIONS The Verbal Cage series, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2013 | “Tehran Taxi series”, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2012 | Castelli series, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2011

GROUP EXHIBITIONS Modern & Contemporary Iranian Art, Tehran Auction, Azadi Grand Hotel, Tehran, 2014 | The Young Collectors Auction, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, 2014 | Ey Iran, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2014 | Cheragh, Iranian Artist Foroum, Tehran, 2014 | City of Tales, Nicolas Flamel Gallery, Paris, 2014 | Alternative Calligraphy 03, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2014 | Voyage, Nicolas Flamel Gallery, Paris, 2013 | The Young Collectors Auction, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, 2013 | Peykareh, Sareban Gallery, Tehran, 2013 | Art Feast, Iranian Artist Forum, Tehran, 2013 | Modern & Contemporary Iranian Art, Tehran Auction, Azadi Grand Hotel, Tehran, 2013 | Draw-ing week 01, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2013 | 11th Art Basel, Miami Beach, 2012 | Words Unveiled, Geneva, 2012 | The First Middle Eastern auction of Millon auction house, Opera Gal-lery, Dubai, 2012 | 7th Vienna Fair, Vienna, 2012 | 9th Shang-hai Biennial, Shanghai, 2012 | Art Dubai, Kashya Hildebrand Art Gallery, Dubai, 2012 | Magic of Persia, Dubai, 2012 | Alter-native Calligraphy 01, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2012 | 10th Art Basel, Miami Beach, 2011 | Christie’s Orientalists Auction, Paris, 2011 | Summer Collection, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2011 | Nastaliq Masters, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, 2008

MOHAMMAD BAHABADIB. 1971

EDUCATION BA in Sculpture, Tehran University of Fine Art, Tehran, 1999

SOLO EXHIBITIONS Aun Gallery & Aun Iranian Art Founda-tion, Tehran, 2014 | Aun Gallery, Tehran, 2013 | Khak Gallery, Tehran, 2001

GROUP EXHIBITIONS Rojan Gallery, Yazd, 2013 | Haft-Khan Gallery, Yazd, 2013 | Iran Artists Organization, Tehran, 2013

SASSAN BEHNAM BAKHTIARB. 1984

SOLO EXHIBITIONS Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, 2014-2015

GROUP EXHIBITIONS Sotheby’s Contemporary Day Sale,

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New York, Nov 2014 | Debut Contemporary Gallery, London, June 2014 | Debut Contemporary Gallery, May 2014 | Debut Contemporary Gallery, London, March 2014 | Debut Con-temporary Gallery, London, February 2014 | Debut Contem-porary Gallery, London, December 2013 | Debut Contem-porary Gallery, London, November 2013 | Magic of Persia Bridge of Persia, Royal College of Art, London, 2013 | Debut Contemporary Gallery, London, October 2013 | Entre L’Ori-ent et L’Occident Salles Des Fetes, Nouveau Port St Jean Cap Ferrat, 2013 | Magic Of Persia Magical Nights, Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, 2010 | A Walk Through Persia, Gallerie Du Cap, 2008

MOHAMMAD BOZORGIB. 1978

EDUCATION Executive MBA Degree, Industrial Management Institute, Tehran, 2009 | Momtaz (Outstanding/Excellent) Degree from Calligraphy Association of Iran, Tehran, 2009 | BA Biomedical Engineering, Tehran, 2002

SOLO EXHIBITIONS Ayyam Gallery, Jeddah, 2014 | Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2012

GROUP EXHIBITIONS Alternative calligraphy 3: Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2014 | Voyage: Nicolas Flamel Gallery, Paris, 2013 | The Fest of Art: Iranian Painter’s Forum, Tehran, 2013 | Word Unveiled: Geneva, 2012 | The Next Generation of Con-temporary Iranian | Calligraphy: Gallery Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, 2012 | Calligraphy: Shirin Art Gallery, Tehran, 2012 | Alternative Calligraphy: Homa Art Gallery Tehran, 2011 | In Remember of Master Roubakhsh: ART center Tehran, 2011 | Iran Invocation Land: Munich, 2010

COLLECTIONS Islamic Museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

WALID EL MASRIB. 1979

EDUCATION BA, Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus, 2005 | The art of mosaic, Summer Academy of Darat Al-Funun, Amman

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Ayyam Gallery, London, 2014 | Europia Gallery, Paris, 2014 | Ayyam Gallery, Jeddah, 2013 | Ayyam Gallery, Beirut, 2013 | Ayyam Gallery DIFC, Dubai, 2012 | Ayyam Gallery Al Quoz, Dubai, 2009 | Art Beijing Contemporary Art Fair, 2009 | Art Hong Kong Art Fair, 2009 | Ayyam Gallery Damascus, 2008 |

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Busan Museum of Art, 2014

| Samsung Blue Square, Seoul, 2014 | The Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 2014 | The Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris, 2014

NAFISEH EMRANB. 1986

EDUCATION BA in Painting, Sooreh University, Tehran, 2010

SOLO EXHIBITIONS Co-Disintegration, Aun Gallery, Tehran, 2013 | GG BG, Aun Gallery, Tehran, 2011

GROUP EXHIBITIONS Aun 92, Aun Gallery Tehran, 2013 | Eraser curated by Behnam Kamrani, Shirin Gallery Tehran, 2013 | The Second Painting & Sculpture Annual Exhibition of Artist Forum, Tehran, 2013 | The First Painting & Sculpture Annual Exhibition of Iranian Artist Forum, Tehran, 2012 | The Game, Shirin Gallery Tehran, 2012 | “Lightness”, curated by Rozita Sharafjahan, Aun Gallery, Tehran, 2012 | Charity, Azad Art Gallery And Takesh Gallery, Tehran & Isfahan, 2012 | The Second Exhibition of Works by Leading Youth, Mellat Gallery, Tehran, 2011 | Unified in Diversity, Total Art Gallery, Dubai, 2011 | The Doll, curated by Behnam Kamrani, Shirin Art Gal-lery Tehran, 2011 | 5th Anniversary of Shirin Art Gallery, Shirin Art Gallery Tehran, 2010 | The Window, Illustration & Draw-ing Exhibition, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, 2010 | The Cinema, curated by Behnam Kamrani, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, 2010

AWARDS Mellat Gallery, Winner of Damonfar (Faber-Castel) Festival of Young Contemporary Iranian Artists, Tehran, 2010

MEHRAN ELMINIAB. 1975

EDUCATION Masters in Art from Rome University of Fine Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS Mehran Elminia: Revealing Harmonies, Rosenfeld Porcini, London, 2012 | Smoldering Incense, Aun Gallery, Tehran, 2011 | The Road to Contemporary Art, Rome International Art Fair, Rome, 2010 | Exhibition at Art Basel, 2010 | Exhibition at Milan International Art Fair, Milan, 2010 | XIV Biennale of Contemporary Religious Art, Stauròs Muse-um, Isola del Gran Sasso, 2010 | Title: Antitle, V. M 21 Artecon-temporanea, Rome, 2009

GROUP EXHIBITIONS Respect to Time, RIRA Gallery, Dubai, 2012 | V. M 21 Artecontemporanea, Rome, 2009 | M att Dive Gold: 20 Artists from 20 Countries, Lipanje Puntin Gallery, Rome, 2009

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AWARDS Winner of the Rome Art Critic’s Commission for Italian Padiglione (foreign artist category), Venice Biennale | Selected as one of the Top 10 to graduate from Rome Uni-versity of Fine ArtSelected within the top 28 artists from Italy for the Liquid Flags group show

LALLA ESSAYDIB.1956

EDUCATION MFA in Painting and Photography, School of The Museum of Fine Arts/ Tufts University, Boston, 2003 | Diploma in Photography and Installation, School of The Mu-seum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1999 | BFA FOCUS–Women and Art, Tufts University, Medford, 1999

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Lalla Essaydi: New Beauty, Karen Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, 2014 | Lalla Essaydi: POÉSIE LUMIÈRE Galerie Tindouf, Marrakech, 2014 | Lalla Essaydi: Beyond Time and Beauty, Museum of Modern Art, Baku, 2014 | Lalla Essaydi: Beyond Beauty, Kashya Hilde-brand Gallery, London, 2013 | Lalla Essaydi, Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston, 2013 | Lalla Essaydi: Writing Femininity, Writing Pleasure, Oakland University Art Gallery Rochester, 2013 | Lalla Essaydi: BOUNDARIES, Amelia Johnson Con-temporary, Hong Kong, 2013 | Universe, Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial, Sharjah, 2012 | Lalla Essaydi: Revisions, a Retrospec-tive, Smithsonian African Museum of Art, Washington D.C., 2012 | Les Femmes du Magreb, Orientalist Museum, Doha, 2013 | Harem, Jackson Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, 2011 | Les Femmes du Maroc, Karen Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Fran-cisco, 2011 | Lalla Essaydi: Power of Writing, National Gallery, Tangier, 2011 | Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc, National Gallery, Fes, 2011 | Lalla Essaydi: Power of Writing, Bab Rouah National Gallery, Rabat, 2011 | Harem, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Zurich, 2011 | Harem, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2010 | Les Femmes du Maroc, Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston, 2010 | Les Femmes du Maroc, Longyear Museum of Anthropol-ogy, Colgate University, Hamilton, 2010 | Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc, Zimmerli Musem at Rutgers, New Brun-swick, 2010

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS She Who Tells a Story: Wom-en Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2014 | Decisive Moments: Photographs from the Cherye R. and James F. Pierce Collection, Honolulu Museum of Art 2013-2014 | A Way with Words, i.d.e.a. Arizo-na Museum of Youth, Mesa, 2013-2014 | IN Focus: Recent Ac-quisitions in Photography New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, 2012 | In Her Eyes: Women Behind and in

Front of the Camera, Newark Museum, 2012-2013 | Regards Africans Croises, Atijariwafa Bank, Casablanca, Maroc, 2012 | Sargazers: Elizabeth Catlett In Conversation With 21 Con-temporary Artists, Bronx Museum, 2011 | Résonance: ar-tistes contemporains marocains du monde, Musée privé de Marrakech, 2010 | Art of Today, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2010 | Mapping Identity, Haverford College, Haverford, 2010 | Out of the Box: Photography Portfolios from the Permanent Collection deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, 2010

SELECTED COLLECTIONS 21C Museum, Louisville, KYAd-dison Gallery of American Art, Andover | Asian Civiliza-tions Museum, Singapore | Bank Al-Maghrib Collection, Rabat, Morocco | Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston | Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University Museum, Stanford | Chris-tian Dior Couture | Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland | deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln | DZ Bank, Kunstsammlung | Fondation Carmignac Gestion, Paris, | George Eastman House, International Museum of Photogra-phy and Film, Rochester | Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge | Hunter Museum of American Art | Jordan National Museum of Art, Jordan | Longwood Center for the Visual Arts | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Maramotti Collection of Contemporary Art, Via Fratelli, Emilia | Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase | Newark Museum of Art, Newark | Private collection of Catherine Woloch Lavergne, Directeur General of Europe and Middle East | Private collection of HRH Shai-kha Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan, UAE Private collection of HRH Princess | Sibilla of Luxembourg

AWARDS Recipient of The School of the Museum Of Fine Arts Boston Medal Award, 2012 | Rencontre Internationale TYPOGRAPHIE – CALLIFRA – GRAVURE, 2003 | La Fondation Taylor, 2001

HABIB FARAJABADIB. 1982

SOLO EXHIBITIONS On paper series, Homa Gallery, Tehran 2013 | Titbits Series, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2012 | Pitch Series, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2011 | Gallery Rotor2, Goth-enburg, 2010 | Drawing Exhibition Iranian Artist Forum, Mirmiran Gallery, Tehran, 2007 | Afrinesh Gallery, Shahrood, 2004 | Aftab Gallery, Shahrood, 2000

GROUP EXHIBITIONS Good news from Iran, Frank Pages, Ge-neva, 2013 | year2, Iranian Art Forum, Tehran, 2013 | Drawing week 1, Homa Gallery, Tehran, 2013 | Words Unveiled, Gene

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va, 2012 | Art Basel, Scope, 2012 | Next Generation, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich 2012 | Alternative Calligraphy, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2011 | The Fifth Annual New Gen-eration Painters, Homa Art Gallery in Parrdis Mellat, Tehran, 2010 | Group Travelling Show of Good 50×70 Posters Design, Triennale, Norrbottens Museum, Milan, 2009 | Dr. Sandouzi Imam Ali Museum, Tehran, 2009 | Kanoon Parvaresh Kooda-kan Va nojavanan, Tehran, 2007 | The Visual Art Festival Ni-yavaran Artistic Creations Foundation, Tehran, 2006 | Baanoo Artistic Creation Foundation, Tehran, 2004

HASSAN HAJJAJB. 1961

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS My RockStars Experimental, Volume 1, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, 2014 | Kesh Angels, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, 2014 | My RockStars, Volume 2, Gusford Gallery, Los Angeles, 2014 | Vogue-Arab Issue, Middle East Film Festival, Aria Art Gallery, Florence, 2013 | Vogue-Arab Issue, Marrakesh Biennale, Mar-rakesh, 2013 | 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, 1:54 Fo-rum, Somerset House, London, 2013 | My RockStars, Volume 1, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, 2013 | My RockStars, Volume 1, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, 2012 | Marque depose, Matisse Gallery, Marrakesh, 2011 | Mi Casa Tu Casa, Matisse Gallery, Marrakesh , 2011 | 1430 in Casa, Bab Hotel, Marrakesh, 2010 | My beautiful Rubbish, Freies Muse-um, Berlin, 2010 | Kesh Angels, Rose Issa Projects, London, 2010 | 1430 in Casa, Matisse Gallery, Casablanca, 2009 | Da-kka Marrackesh, 8th Bamako Encounters African Photogra-phy Biennial, INA, 2009 | Reuse 2.0, El boutique at Lothan Exhibition Space, 2008 | Dakka Marrakesh’, Leighton House Museum, London, 2008 | Noss Noss: Photographic Works and Other Moroccan Stories, The Third Line, Doha, 2008

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS CC Ter Dilft Bornem, Belgium, 2014 | Couleur Café Festival, Brussels, 2014 | The Future of Fashion is Now, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotter-dam, 11 October 2014 to 18 January 2015 | More material, Salon94, New York, 2014 | Special Flag, L’Atelier 21, Casablan-ca, 2014 | True to Life, New Photography from the Middle East, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, 2014 | Fluid Form II, NEMO Blue Square and Busan Museum of Art, Seoul, 2014 | Fotofest 2014 Biennal-Contemporary Arab Photographic Art, Houston, 2014 | International Photo Fes-tival, Knokke-Heist, 2014 | My Rockstars, Volume 1, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, 2014 | 10 photographes contemporains marocains, Fondation Mohammed VI de Promotion des œu-vres Sociales de l’Education,

Rabat, 2014 | In the name of Honour, Christie’s, London, 2013 | Beyond the Cloth: The Kafiye project’, White Box Projects, New York, 2013 | Africa Centre Festival, photography ex-hibition, Africa Centre, London, 2013 | Au Bazar du Genre, MUCEM, Marseille, 2013 | Tunisia Fashion Week, Tunis, 2013 | Chaos into clarity: Re-possessing a funkdioning Utopia, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, 2013 | 10 photographes contemporains marocains, MMPVA, Marrakesh, 2013 | Syri-Arts’ (auction/exhibition in benefit of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon), Beirut Exhibition Centre, 2013 | Light from the Middle East, V&A Museum, London, 2012 | Re-Orientations’, Rose Issa Projects, London, 2012 | Moroccan Contemporary Art, Doha, 2012 | Daba Maroc, Brussels, 2012 | Between Walls, Rabat, 2012 | London Twelve, City Gallery, Prague, 2012 | The Bravery of Being Out of Range II, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, 2012 | Mi Casa Tu Casa, Marrakesh Art Biennale, 2012 | ReUse 5.0, Envearth, Kuwait, 2012 | Aurs Al Arab, OltreDimore Gallery, Bologna, 2012

AWARDS Winner of the Pulse Art Fair Prize, 2014 | Winner of the Sovereign African Art Prize, 2011 | Frame Magazine (frame 34) Arabian nights recycling, Paris, 2003 | French award ’Fooding 2003’ for the best restaurant design granted to Andy Wahloo Bar, Paris, 2003

COLLECTIONS LACMA, Los Angeles | Institut Des Cultures d’ Islam, Paris | Wedge collection, Wedge curatorial projects, Toronto | Victoria and Albert Museum, London | Kamel La-zaar Foundation, Tunisia | Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Rich-mond | Farjam Collection, Dubai | Barjeel Collection, Sharjah

SHEREE HOVSEPIANB. 1974

EDUCATION MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2002 | BA University of Toledo, Toledo, 1999 | Glas-gow School of Art, Glasgow, 1998

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Gallery 44, Centre for Contem-porary Photography, Toronto, 2014 | Domes, Bischoff/Weiss, London, 2013 | Haptic Wonders, Monique Melouche, Chica-go, 2012 | Column, Etemad Gallery, Dubai, 2011 | Contact, Charest-Weinberg Gallery, Miami, 2011 | Spare Room, West Street Gallery, New York, 2010 | Portraits of Young Jewish Women, Spertus Museum, Chicago, 2009 | The Death of Plu-to, NEIU University, Chicago, 2007

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, curated by Teka Selman, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, Miami, 2013 | All F@$%ing Summer, curated Mia Romanik, Sarah Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, 2013 | Bass! How Low Can You Go?, curated by Amir Shariat, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 2013 | Traces of Life, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, 2013 | Farewell Rodney, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, 2013 | Twenty Days Later, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, 2012 | Photorealism, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London, 2012 | West Street Gallery, New York, 2012 | Brucennial, 2012: Harderer, Better-er, Fasterer, Strongerer, 159 Bleecker Street, New York, 2011 | Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian and Bar-bara Kasten, Moniquemeloche, Chicago, 2010 | The Arbitrar-iness of Signs, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, 2010 | Herd Thinner, Charest-Weinberg Gallery, Miami, 2009 | Harlem Postcards, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2009 | It Figures, Moniquemeloche, Chicago, 2009 | Emerge 10, Aljira Cen-tre for Contemporary Art, Newark, 2009 | How Do I Look? Moniquemeloche, Chicago, 2007 | The World is Flat, Life-bomb, Berlin, 2007 | Pan Sonic, NIU Gallery, Chicago, 2006

GRANTS Aljira Emerge 10 Residency, Newark, 2008 | Com-munity Arts Assistance Grant, Chicago, 2005 | Travel Grant, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, 2002 | Graduate Grant, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, 2000

COLLECTIONS The Spertus Museum, Chicago | The Art Insti-tute of Chicago | The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

RASHID JOHNSONB.1977

EDUCATION School of the Art Institute, Chicago, 2004-2005 | Bachelor of Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, 2000

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winter-thur, 2014 | George Economou Collection, ‘Magic Numbers’, Athens, 2014 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, ‘New Growth’, Denver, 2014 | Ballroom Marfa, ‘New Growth’, Texas, 2013 | Hauser & Wirth, ‘The gathering’, Zurich, 2013 | High Museum of Art, Atlanta ‘Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks’, Atlanta, 2013 | Kemper Art Museum, ‘Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks’, St. Louis, 2013 | Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, ‘Message to Our Folks’, Atlanta, 2013 | David Kordansky Gallery, ‘Coup d’état’, Los Angeles, 2012 | Hauser & Wirth, ‘Rumble’, New York, 2012 | Miami Art Museum, ‘Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks’, Miami , 2012 | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, ‘Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks’, Chicago , 2012 | South London Gallery, ‘Shelter’, London, 2012 | Galerie Guido W. Baudach, ‘There are

Stranger Villages’, Berlin, 2010 | Massimo De Carlo, ‘25 Days after October’, Milan, 2010 | Salon 94, ‘Our Kind of People’, New York, 2010

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 57 Walker Street, ‘Black Eye’, New York, 2014 | Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, ‘30 Americans’, New Orleans, 2014 | De La Cruz Collection, ‘From the Collection: Looking at process’, Miami, 2014 | Knoxville Museum of Art, ‘Facets’, Knoxville, 2014 | Leila Heller Gallery, ‘Look at me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present’, New York, 2014 | Lille 3000, ‘Secret Passions. Private Flemish Col-lections’, Euralille, 2014 | Museum of Modern Art, ‘Forever Now: Painting in the New Millennium’, New York, 2014 | Un-titled, ‘George Nakashima: In Conversation’, New York, 2014 | Acquavella Galleries, ‘White Collar Crimes’, New York, 2013 | Beaux-arts de Paris: L’école nationale supérieure, ‘Angel of History’, Paris, 2013 | Dairy Art Centre, ‘Island’, London, 2013 | LAND Los Angeles Nomadic Division, ‘Painting in Place’, Los Angeles, 2013 | National Art Museum of China, ‘Darkness Vis-ible’, Beijing, 2013 | ‘RUN to Merci-Mercy’, New York, 2013 | Shanghai Biennale, ‘Re-activation’, Shanghai, 2012 | Chrysler Museum of Art, ‘30 Americans, The Rubell Family Collection’, Virginia Beach, 2012 | Curator’s Office, ‘An architect’s dream’, Washington DC, 2012

AWARDS David C. Driskell Prize 2012

DZAMIL KAMANGARB. 1948

EDUCATION Master of Handicrafts, Kermansah University of Fine Arts, 1973

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Parallax, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico, 2014 | On Foreign Land, Mikkeli Art Mu-seum, 2014 | On Foreign Land, Kerava Art Museum, 2014 | Delights of Life, Gallery Pirkko-Liisa Topelius, Helsinki, 2014 | God Knows He Is Naked, Jokigalleria, Eura, 2014 | Northern Souls, Space Station 65, London, UK, 2014 | Port Izmir 3, Izmir Triennale, Izmir, Turkey, 2014 | Fabrications, Botkyrka Kon-sthall, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014 | Garden of Undocument-ed, Villa Arttu, Hyvinkää , 2013 | liquid Cities & Temporary Identities, Finland, Espoo, 2013, On Whiteness, Gallery Villa Arttu, 2013 | Space For Freedom, The world of Tango Festival, Tampere, 2013 | Land in Situ, Näkymä , Environmental Art Exhibition in Akaa, 2013 | Koti-ikävä , Jokigalleria, Eura, 2013 | Reality Bites, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012 | Fittja Open, Fittja Konsthallen, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012 | Takes on Memory and Flight-Paths, August

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Gallery, Helsinki, 2012 | Urban Festival, Zagreb Croatia, 2012 | Art is so Gay, Forum Boz, Helsinki | On Freedom, Finnish Museum of Photography, 2012 | Take-away Art, Botkyrka Konstahll, Botkyrka, Sweden, 2012 | Food Chains- Halikonlahti Green Art, Salo Art Mu-seum, 2011 | Fittja Open, Fittja Konsthallen, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011 | Pizzeria Babylon, Chiang Mai University Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2011 | Pizzeria Babylon, Small Projects, Tromso, Norway, 2011, Pizzeria Babylon, Institut finlandais, Paris, France, 2011 | X-OP Cultural Study Group, Kibla, Maribor, Slovenia, 2011 | Untoldd Sto-ries, Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia, 2011

SCREENINGS Lens Politica, Helsinki, 2013 | Art Fair 2012, Cable Factory, Helsinki 2012 | Ismailia International Festival for Docu-mentary & Short Films,Ismailia, 2010 | Porin juhalviikot, Galleria 3h+k, Pori 2010 | Kettupäivät, Helsinki, 2010 | Nordisk Film Festival, Fredrikshavn, 2009 | Finland in Full Colour, Kööpenhamina, 2009 | Aletrenative Art, Cable Factory, Helsinki 2008 | Bolzano Short Film Festival, Bolzano, 200 | Northern Vision, Belfast Community TV, UK, 2008 | Trunk 07, Nordic Art Video Festival, Östersund, 2007

COLLECTIONS Helsinki City Art Museum | Lönnström Art Musuem | Tampere Hospital | Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art

GLENN LIGONB. 1960

EDUCATION Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, 1985 | B.A. Wesleyan University, Middletown, 1982 | Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1980

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION Glenn Ligon: Come Out, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, 2014 | Glenn Ligon: Narratives, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, 2014 | Glenn Ligon, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, 2013 | Glenn Ligon: Neon, Luhring Augus-tine, New York, 2013 | Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2011 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2011 | The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, 2012 | Glenn Ligon, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, 2010 | Glenn Ligon: ‘Nobody’ and Other Songs, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, 2009 | Glenn Ligon: Off Book, Regen Projects II, 2010 | Glenn Ligon: Figure/Paysage/Marine, Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2008 | Glenn Ligon Love and Theft, Power House, Memphis, 2008 | Glenn Ligon, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, 2007 | Unauthor-ized, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, 2007 | Glenn Ligon: Bril-liant Corners, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, 2006 | We Had Everything Before Us, We Had Nothing Before Us, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2006 | Glenn Ligon, Grossman Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, 2006

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Blanton Museum of Art, Univer-sity of Texas, Austin, 2016 | Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, 2015 | Telfair Museum, Savan-nah, 2015 | University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 2015 | Rauschenberg: Collecting & Connecting, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, 2014 | 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2014 | Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, 2014 | Point of View: African American Art Masters from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, 2014 | Bloodflames Revisited, curated by Phong Bui, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2014 | Somos Libres II, Pinacoteca Gianni e Marella Ag-nelli, Turin, 2014 | Reliable Tension, or: How to Win a Conversation About Jasper Johns, 32 Edgewood Avenue Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, 2014 | Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ide-ology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2014 | UNE HISTOIRE (art archi design/des années 80 à nos jours) / A HISTORY (art architec-ture design, from the 80s to now), Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2014

AWARDS 18th Annual Medal Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2013 | International Association of Art Critics Award, 2012 | United States Artists Fellowship, Los Angeles, 2010 | Studio Museum’s Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, New York, 2009| Skowhegan Medal for Painting, New York, 2006 | Academy Awards in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 2006 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow-ship, New York, 2003 | DAAD, Berlin, 2001 | ArtPace International Artists-in-Residence Program, San Antonio, 1998 | Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant , 1997 | Residency, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio, 1994 | National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship, Painting, 1991 | Art Matters, Inc. Fellowship Dewar’s Young Artist’s Recognition Award 1989/90 P.S. 1 National Studio Program, The Clocktower, New York, 1990 | Na-tional Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship, Drawing, 1989 | National Endowment for the Arts, Curatorial Internship, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1982

SELECTED COLLECTIONS Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo | Bal-timore Museum of Art, Baltimore | Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham | The Bohen Foundation, New York | Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh | Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines | Detroit Institute of Arts, De-troit | Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City | Harvard Art Muse-um, Cambridge | High Museum of Art, Atlanta | Hirshhorn Muse-um and Sculpture Garden, Washington | M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | Museum of Modern Art, New York | Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth | Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach | Peter Norton family Foundation, Santa Monic

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| Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco | Seattle Art Museum, Seattle | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York | St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis | Tate Modern, London | Wad-sworth Atheneum, Hartford | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

JULIE MEHRETUB. 1970

EDUCATION MFA, Honors, Rhode Island School of Design, 1997 | BA Kalamazoo College, 2002 | University Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 1990-1991

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Liminal Squared, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 2013 | Liminal Squared, White Cube, London, 2013 | Mind, Breath and Beat Drawings, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, 2013 | Notations After The Ring, Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery, Metropolitan Opera House, New York, 2010 | Grey Area, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2010 | Excavations: The Prints of Jul-ie Mehretu, High Point Prints, Minneapolis, 2009 | Grey Area, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, 2009 | City Sitings, Williams College Art Gallery, Williamstown, 2008 | Eye of the Storm, Carl Scholsberg Gallery, Montserrat College, Beverley, 2008 | City Sitings, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 2008 | Julie Mehretu: Black City, Kunstverein Hanover, Hanover, 2007 | Julie Mehretu: Black City, Lou-isiana Museum, Humlebaek, 2007 | Julie Mehretu: City Sitings, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 2007 | Julie Mehretu: Black City, MUSAC-Museo de Arte Contemporá-neo de Castilla y León, Léon, 2006 | Julie Mehretu: Heavy Weather, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, 2006 | Julie Mehretu: Heavy Weather, The Print Center, Philadelphia, 2006 | Julie Mehretu: Drawings, Projectile Gallery, New York, 2005 | Currents 95: Julie Mehretu, St. Louis Art Mu-seum, St. Louis, 2005

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Summer Highlights, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, 2014 | Love Story, Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection, Belvedere, 2014 | Dak’art: Bi-ennal of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, 2014 | Lost in Landscape, MART, Rovereto, 2014 | The First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Cart-agena, 2014 | INTERACT, East Wing Collection, Courtauld Insti-tute, London, 2014 | Du Bois in Our Time, University of Massa-chusetts, Amherst’s University Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013 | The Gesture and the Sign, White Cube, Sao Paulo, 2013 | The Temptation of the Diagram, Andrea Rosen Gallery

2 , New York, 2013 | Highlights 2012, John Berggruen Gal-lery, San Francisco, 2012 | Documenta 13, Kassel, 2012 | The Painting Factory, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Ange-les, 2012 | Multiplicity, Smithsonian, Washington D.C., 2011 | The Bearden Project, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2011 | Seeing/Knowing, Graham Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Ohio, 2011 | In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogana, Venice, 2011 | New Order, White Cube, London, 2011 | Three Artists: Julie Mehretu, Julian Lethbridge, Wayne Gonzales, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, 2011 | Subversive Abstraction, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2010 | Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, 2010 | Automatic Cities, Museum of Con-temporary Art San Diego, 2009 | Who’s Afraid of the Artists?, Palais des Arts de Dinard, Dinard, 2009 | Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers, Institute of Contemporary Art (IVAM), Valen-cia, 2009

GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES American Academy in Berlin Fel-lowship, 2007 | The Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Council Artistic Achievement Award, Rhode Island, 2006 | MacArthur Fellow, 2005 | American Art Award, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, 2005 | Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, 2005 | Artist-in-Residency, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2003 | Artist-in-Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, 2003 | Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, 2003 | Penny McCall Foundation Grant, 2002 | The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foun-dation Grant, 2001 | AIR Program at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2001 | Pat Hearn Inaugural Award, 2001 | Artists-in-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2001 | CORE Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1997-1998 | The Rhode Island School of De-sign Presidential Scholar Fall Tuition Award, 1995-1997

CARTER MULLB. 1977

EDUCATION California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, 2006 | Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 2000

SOLO EXHIBITIONS We tell ; stories in order to live, curat-ed by Alexis Vaillant, CAPC, Bordeaux, 2014 | The princess is caged in the ©, (with Tobias Kaspar) curated by Giovanni Carmine, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Saint Gallen, 2014 | Hearts of Gold, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, 2014 | We live entirely, ©, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate imahes, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience, Marc Foxx,

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Los Angeles, 2013 | The Day’s Specific Dreams, IIY Axe, New York, 2011 | Metametrica, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, 2010 | Triggers for Everyday Fiction, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, 2008 | Ethics of Everyday Fiction, Rivington Arms, New York, 2007 | State of Shifting Mirrors, Champion Fine Art Los Angeles, 2005 | Shifting States, Rivington Arms, New York, 2005

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen at Liste, Curated by Giovanni Carmine, Liste Art Fair, Basel, 2014 | Leonor Antunes, Jason Meadows, Cart-er Mull & Alessandro Pessoli, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, 2014 | Art Post-Internet, curated by Robin Peckham, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2014 | Just Now, Sotheby’s, London, 2014 | Murmurs, curated by Rita Gonzales, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2013 | An-Americana, curated by Vincenzo de Bellisa, American Academy, Rome, 2013 | Fabian Mar-ti – Marti Collection, Kunsthaus PasquArt, Biel, 2013 | Roger Hiorns, Carter Mull, David Musgrave, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, 2013 | Digital Infinity, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, 2013 | Nathan Hylden, Carter Mull, Chadwick Rantanen, United Artists Limted, Marfa, Texas, 2013 | Paint Hotel, Joe Scheftel Gallery, New York, 2013 | Anette Kelm, Carter Mull, Marc Foxx, Los Ange-les, 2013 | Glitter and Folds, curated by Jennifer Bur-ris, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 2013 | Set Pieces, curated by Andrew Berardini and Lauren Mackler, Cardi Black Box, Milan, 2013 | Beyond the Ob-ject, Brand New Gallery, Milan | Needles in the Camel’s Eye, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, 2012 | The Magic of Photography, Curated by Charlotte Cotton, Daegu Bennale, Seoul, 2012 | Venice Beach Biennial, Curated by Ali Subotnik, Venice, California, 2012 | Bold Tendencies, Peckham Garage, London, 2012 | Palma Photo, Majorca Landings, Palma de Majorca, 2012 | The Shaping of New Visions: Photograph, Film, Photobook, Curated by Roxana Marcoci, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012 | First Among Equals, Curated by Alex Klein and Kate Kraczon, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia (with P& Co.), Philadelphia, 2012 | Utopia / Dystopia in Constructed Photography, Curated by Yas-ufumi Nakamuri, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2012

COLLECTIONS The Getty Research Institute | Los Ange-les County Museum of Art | Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | Orange County Mu-seum of Art | UCLA Hammer Museum | The Walker Art Center | Whitney Museum of American Art

STEVEN NAIFEHB. 1952

EDUCATION Ph.D. in the Humanities The Julliard School, New York, 2012 | Ph.D. in Humane Letters, University of South Carolina, Aiken, 1991 | Ph.D. (ABD) in Fine Arts, Harvard Grad-uate School of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, 1981 | M.A. in Fine Arts, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, 1979 | Harvard Law School, Cambridge, 1977 | A.B. Summa cum laude in American History, Princeton Uni-versity, Princeton, 1974

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Steven Naifeh: Found in Trans-lation, Middle Eastern Center for the Arts (MECA), Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, 2014 | Steven Naifeh: Found in Translation, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, 2014 | Found in Translation: The Art of Steven Naifeh Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, 2013 | Embassy of the United States, Abu Dhabi, 1975 | Princeton University Art Museum 1974 | Con-sulate General of the United States, Karachi, 1971 | Consulate of the United States, Kaduna, 1969 | Consulate of the United States, Kano, 1969

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Summer show, Henri Gal-lery, Washington, D. C, 1974 | Art in Embassies Program, Lagos, 1970 | American Artists, United States Information Service, 1968

AWARDS Edgar Allan Poe Award in Fact Crime in 1994 for Fi-nal Justice, 1994 | Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Jackson Pol-lock: An American Saga, 1991 | National Book Award Finalists in Nonfiction for Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, 1990

SHIRIN NESHATB. 1957

SELECTED SOLO EXHBITIONS Shirin Neshat, National Muse-um of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, 2014 | Shirin Neshat, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, 2014 | Shirin Ne-shat: Our House is on Fire, Rauschenberg Foundation Pro-ject Space, New York, 2014 | Written on the Body, Espacia Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, 2013 | Shirin Neshat, Dirimart, Istanbul, 2013 | The Book of Kings, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, 2013 | Shirin Neshat, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 2013 | The Book of Kings, Gladstone Gallery, New York | The Book of Kings, Galerie Jermone du Noirmont, Paris, 2012 | Women Without Men, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2011 l Games of Desire, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, 2009 l Games of Desire, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, 2009 l Women Without

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Men, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Kul-turhuset, Stockholm, 2009 l Turbulent, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, 2009 | Shirin Neshat, Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2008 l Shirin Neshat: New Works, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, 2008 l National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, 2008 | Secret of the Veil, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Es-poo, 2006 l Shirin Neshat, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, 2006 l Zarin, Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2005 l Shirin Ne-shat, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum Fur Gengewart, Berlin, 2005 l La Ulitma Palabra/Last Word, Museo de Arte Contem-poraneo, Leon, 2005 l Through the Eyes of Shirin Neshat, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, 2004 l Tooba Asia Soci-ety Museum, New York, 2003 l Shirin Neshat, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 2003 l Shirin Neshat, Tensta Konstall, Spanga, 2003 | Shirin Neshat, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, 2002 l Shirin Neshat, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2002 l Shirin Neshat, Centre Cultural Banco di Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2002 l Shirin Neshat, Aarhus Kun-stmuseum, Aarhus, 2002 l Shirin Neshat, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, 2002 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Songs of Loss and Songs of Love, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea, 2014 | Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, Lelia Heller Gal-lery, New York, 2014 | I Look at Things… Work From the Col-lection, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, 2014 | CON-FLICT: Art and War,” Contemporary Art Society, London, 2014 | Shirin Neshat: Don’t Ask Where the Love is Gone, Moscow Photobiennale 2014, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 2014 | Pionniéres: Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Mar-lene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Roni Horn, Shirin Neshat, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, Niki De Saint Phalle, CAB Art Center, Brussels, 2014 | ToledoContemporánea, Centro Cultural San Marcos, Toledo, 2014 | My Third Land, Frankendael Founda-tion, Amsterdam, 2013 | Collection Exhibition II, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2013 | Come To-gether: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Industry City, New York, 2013 | The Ghost of Architecture: Recent and Promised Gifts, Hen-ry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 2013 | SKIN, an artistic atlas, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 2013 | She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2013 | Legacy: Photographs from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecti-cut, 2013 | All You Need is Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2013 | Voice of Images, Palazzo Grassi-Francoise Pinault Foundation, Venice, 2012 | TRA. Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, 2011 l I Know Something About Love, 2011 l Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San

Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2010 | The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, Cheim & Read, New York , 2009 | Shir in Neshat: Women Without Men, Prospect. 1: New Orleans In-ternational Biennial, New Orleans, 2008

AWARDS Crystal Award, World Economic Forum, Davos, 2014 | Si lver Lion, 66th Venice Film Festival, 2009 | Cinema for Peace Special Award, Hessischer Filmpreis, Germany, 2009 | Li l l ian Gish Prize, New York , 2006 |Hiroshima Art Prize, Hiroshima City Mu-seum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan, 2005 | Grand Prix, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea, 2000 | First International Prize, 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, 1999 | Pr ize for Best Project, ARCO, Madrid, 1999

PERFORMANCES OverRuled, PERFORMA 11, 4th Edi-tion of New Visual Ar t Per formance Biennial, Cedar Lake Theater, November 11 - 12, 2011 | Logic of the Birds,” Ortigia Festival, Syracuse, Sici ly, July 25 – 27 | Logic of the Birds, Walker Art Center, Minneapo-lis, June 20 – 23, 2003 | Logic of the Birds, Lincoln Center, New York , July 12 – 13, 2003 | Logic of the Birds, Ar tAngel, London, November 7-17, 2003 | Logic of the Birds (Phase One), The Kitchen, New York , 2001

TAHER POURHEIDARIB. 1984

EDUCATION B.F.A. Painting from Art University Of Shahed, Tehran, 2009 | M.F.A. Painting from Art Uni-versity Of Tehran, 2011 SOLO EXHIBITIONS La Belle Mariee Series, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2012 | Nezam- Abadi Series Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2011

GROUP EXHIBITIONS At the Crossroads 2: Contem-porary Art from Istanbul to Kabul, Sotheby ’s Lon-don, 2014 | Painting and Sculpture Annual Exhibi-tion of I ranian Forum, Tehran, 2013 | Drawing Week 1, Homa Gallery, Tehran, 2013 | Long Day ’s journey Into Night, Khorshid Cafe, Lavasan, 2012 | Exhibi-tion with Academy Group Of Art University of Teh-ran, Tabriz, 2010 | Selected in 5th Nasl-e no annual exhibition, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2010 | Par tic-ipated in 3th & 4th Nasl-e no annual exhibitions, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, 2008 and 2009

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ADRIANA VAREJÃO B. 1964

RESIDENCIES Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2004

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Carnivorous, Victoria Miro Mayfair, London, United Kingdom Institute of Contempo-rary Art Boston, Boston, 2014 | Polvo, Lehmann Maupin, New York, 2014 | Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, 2014 | Polvo, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, 2013 | Historias at the Margins, Museo de Arte Latinamericao de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 2013 | Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, 2013 | Historias at the Margins, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sãu Paulo, 2012 | Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, 2012 | Victoria Miro Gallery, London, 2011 | Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, 2009 | Lehmann Maupin, New York, 2009 | Opening of CACI Pavilion, Inhotim, 2008 | Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, 2008 | Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2007 | Solo booth, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, 2006 | Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, 2005 | Centro Cultural Belém, Lisbon, 2005 | Fondation Cartier Pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, 2005

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Cruzamentos, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, 2014 | White, Dickinson, New York, 2013 | Imagine Brazil, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, 2013 | Gulf, Center Gallery, Fordham University, New York, 2013 | Cinematic Visions: Painting at the Edge of Reality, Vic-toria Miro Gallery, London, 2013 | Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, 2013 | On Painting, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2013 | From Margin to the Edge, Somerset House, London, 2012 | Espelho Refletido – O Sur-realismo e a Arte Contemporânea Brasiliera, Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, 2012 | Cartographies, Funda-cio “la Caixa”, Madrid; Fundacio “la Caixa”, Barcelona, 2012 | St. Moritz Art Masters, St. Moritz, 2012 | Amazonia, ciclos da modernidade, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia; Cen-tro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2012 | Projecto Outdoor, P-28, Porto; Lisbon, 2012 | 12th Interna-tional Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2011 | destricted.br, Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, 2011 | Fotografos da Cena Contem-pranea, Museu de Arte Contemporanea da USP, São Paulo, 2011 | All cannibals, me Collectors Room, Berlin, 2011 | Tous cannibals, Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, 2011 | Vieira da Silva/Arpad Szenes e rupturas do es-paco na arte brasiliera, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, 2011 | The Last First Decade, Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Cascias, 2011 | Vestigios de Brasilidade, Santander Cultural,

Recife, 2011 | Gigante por la propia naturaleza, Instituto Va-lenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, 2011 | Mappamundi, Fundacao de Arte Moderna e Contempranea, Museum Ber-ado, Lisbon, 2011 | Testing Ground, Time Scale, Zabludowicz Collection, London, 2011

HONOURS & DISTINCTIONS APCA Grande Prêmio da Crítica, Visual Arts, São Paulo, 2012 | Order of Cultural Merit, Brazil Ministry of Culture, Rio de Janeiro, 2011 | Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres, French Ministry of Culture, Paris, 2008

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The Arizona State University Art Mu-seum, Tempe | Fondation Cartier Pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris | Ellipse Foundation, Cascais | Inhotim Center of Con-temporary Art, Brazil | Fundació “la Caixa,” Barcelona | Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo | Museum of Contem-porary Art, San Diego | SMAK – Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York | Tate Modern, London

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The property offered in this sale will be offered and sold by the Friends of MOP Foundation. Any questions should be directed to the Charity (“Friends of MOP Foundation”) and not to Sotheby’s, Inc., (“Sotheby’s”), which serves merely as auctioneer for the Charity in conducting the auction sale and participates on the following terms and conditions, as amended by any posted notic-es or oral announcements during the sale, which govern the sale of all the property offered at the auction:

1. (a) Neither Sotheby’s nor the Charity assume any risk, liability or responsibility for the authenticity of the authorship of any property offered at this auction (that is, the identity of the creator or the period, culture, source or origin, as the case may be, with which the creation of any property is identified).(b) ALL PROPERTY IS SOLD “AS IS” AND NEITHER SOTHEBY’S NOR THE CHARITY MAKES ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WAR-RANTIES OF ANY KIND OR NATURE, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE PROPERTY, AND IN NO EVENT SHALL EITHER OF THEM BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CORRECTNESS OF ANY CATALOGUE OR NOTICES OR DESCRIPTIONS OF PROP-ERTY, NOR BE DEEMED TO HAVE MADE, ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTY OF PHYSICAL CONDITION, SIZE, QUALITY, RARITY, IMPORTANCE, GENUINENESS, ATTRIBUTION, AUTHENTICITY, PROVENANCE OR HISTORICAL RELEVANCE OF THE PROPERTY. No statement in any catalogue, notice or description or made at the sale, in any bill of sale invoice or else-where, shall be deemed such a representation or warranty or any assumption of liability. Neither Sotheby’s nor the Char-ity makes any representation or warranty, expressed or implied, as to whether the purchaser acquires any reproduction rights in the property. Prospective bidders should inspect the property before bidding to determine its condition, size and whether or not it has been repaired or restored.2. Any property may be withdrawn by Sotheby’s or the Charity at any time before the actual sale without any liability therefor.3. Sotheby’s and the Charity reserve the right to reject a bid from any bidder. The highest bidder acknowledged by the auctioneer shall be the purchaser. In the event of any dispute between bidders, the auctioneer shall have sole and final discretion either to determine the successful bidder or to reoffer and resell the article in dispute. If any dispute arises after the sale, the Charity’s sale records shall be conclusive in all respects.4. If the auctioneer determines that any opening bid is not commensurate with the value of the article offered, s/he may reject the same and withdraw the article from sale, and if, having acknowledged an opening bid, s/he decides that any advance thereafter is insufficient, he may reject the advance.5. On the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer, the highest bidder shall be deemed to have purchased the offered lot subject to all of the conditions set forth herein and thereupon (a) assumes the risk and responsibility thereof (including without limitation damage to frames or glass the covering prints), (b) will sign a confirmation of purchase thereof and (c) will pay the full purchase price no later than Tuesday 30 September 2014 in USD$ by check or wire transfer. All lots will be transferred to a storage warehouse in Los Angeles, and will be released to the purchaser upon receipt of full payment to the Friends of MOP Foundation, and the purchaser will be notified of the location of their property. Storage and handling fees will apply from Monday 22 September 2014, and are the responsibility of the purchaser. If the foregoing conditions and other applicable conditions are not complied with, in addition to other remedies available to the Charity by law, in-cluding, without limitation, the right to hold the purchaser liable for the bid price, the Charity at their option, may either (a) cancel the sale, or (b) resell the property on three days notice to the purchaser and for the account and risk of the purchaser, either publicly or privately, and in such event the purchaser shall be liable for payment of any deficiency, all other charges due hereunder and incidental damages.6. Any checks and wire transfers should be payable to the Friends of MOP Foundation.7. (a) If a prospective buyer gives Sotheby’s instructions to bid on his/her behalf Sotheby’s shall use reasonable efforts to do so, provided these instructions are received no later than 24 hours before the sale. (b) If Sotheby’s receives commission bids on a particular artwork for identical amounts, and at auction these bids are the highest bids for the Lot, it will be sold to the person whose bid was received first.(c) In the case of order bids or bids transmitted by telephone, Sotheby’sand the Charity are not responsible for any errors or omissions in connection such bids.(d) All lots are offered for sale subject to a reserve, which is the confidential minimum price below which such lot will not be sold. Sotheby’s may implement such reserve by bidding up to the reserve on behalf of the Charity.8. The export of any lot from the US or import into any other country may be subject to one or more certified documents being required by the local embassy of the final destination. It is the purchaser’s responsibility to obtain any relevant documents. The denial of import or delay in obtaining such documents cannot justify the cancellation of the sale or any delay in making payment of the total amount due.

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Alireza Astaneh 62Mohammad Bahabadi 64Sassan Behnam Bakhtiar 66Mehran Elminia 73Nasifeh Emran 74Habib Farajabadi 78Hassan Hajjaj 80Shirin Neshat 96Taher Pourheidari 100 Adriana Varejão 102

Pooya Aryanpour 60Mohammad Bozorgi 68Walid El Masri 71 Lalla Essaydi 77Sheree Hovsepian 83 Rashid Johnson 84 Dzamil Kamangar 86Glenn Ligon 89Julie Mehretu 90Carter Mull 92 Steven Naifeh 95 Shirin Neshat 98

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Sara Ameri I Trustee Shirley Elghanian I Chairman Of The Board Of TrusteesShirin Elghanayan I Secretary Of The Board Of TrusteesAsal Sobati I TrusteeVajihe Soleymani I Treasurer Of The Board Of Trustees

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