Born on Nov. 5th, 1966 in Tehran, lives and works here & there.

1994 B.A. in Cinematographic Studies, Université Paul Valery, Montpellier, France

1992 DNSEP (M.F.A.) in Visual Arts, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, France

1990 DNAP (B.F.A.) in Visual Arts, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, France

solo shows & performances

 2020

• Outputs II, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Road Movie 21, Image et résistance/Impact Chili, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
• Me & the Others, performance, A.I.R Gallery, New York City

 2019

• Outputs I, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Road Movie 20, École nationale supérieure d'art Bourges, Bourges, France
  
• Archives 1993-1999 / Iran, New Media Society, Tehran
• Black Hole, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
• Road Movie 19, Limited Access 8, New Media Society, Tehran

 2018

• Dyslexia, Hinterland Gallery, Vienna
• Road Movie 18, performance, Haftayneh Gallery, Sari, Iran
  
• Road Movie 17, performance, Isoo Gallery, Amol, Iran

2017

• Mismappings, ISCP, New York
• 1366 [1987], Otagh Bargh, Dastan Outside, Tehran
• Road Movie XV, performance, Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne
• Road Movie IX, performance, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany
• Road Movie XIV, performance, ISCP, New York
• Road Movie XIII, performance, Princeton University, USA

2016

• Anthologie des racines carrées: Episode 1, Galerie Nivet-Carzon, Paris
• Road Movie XII, performance, CAMP, Copenhagen
• Tracking Shot, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
• Road Movie X & XI, performance and projection, Centre d’Art, Conte​mporain St. Restitut, France
• Mea Culpa, Carbon 12, Dubai

2015

• Intersections, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
• Performances Clandestines @ Video et après, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2014

• Memory Drain, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
• Road Movie 7” performance, Azad Gallery, Tehran

2013

• Family Tree- from the Me series, Carbon 12, Dubai
• Marée Noire/Mother Tongue/Archive 1, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
• Road Movie VI performance, Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Art, Bourges

2012

• Geopolitik der Wurzeln – No Man’s Land, Teil 2, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria
• Road Movie III & Road Movie IV, performances @ Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris

2011

• Road Movie II, performance at Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
• Geopolitics of Roots-No Man’s Land, Carbon 12, Dubai

2010

• Me 2000-2003 & Me 2003-2008, Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris
• Wanted (Urgent), performance @ Slick Art Fair, Paris
• Road Movie, performance @ Slick Art Fair, Paris

2009

• Me 2003-2008@Le vestibule, La Maison Rouge, Paris

2008

• Me 62/ Me 65/  Me 66, in conjunction with  PhotoFest, Apama Mackey Gallery, Houston, Texas
• Home (stories), @ Bande Passante, CRAC, Sète

2007

• ME & All The Others, MAC: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile, Chile

2006  

• Wanted, Phone Boutique, Flandres Avenue, Paris 19th

2005

• All About Me- Ghazel, a hybrid Iranian around the world, ASK? Art Space, Musashino Art University Alpha M project, Tokyo, Japan
• All about Me: Ghazel, a hybrid, world-citizen Iranian woman, Space B, Osaka-Seikei University, Nagaokakyo,Japan
• HOME, performance during the 37th Theatre Venice Festival, Venice Biennial, Venice

2004

• Me, CCA, Glasgow
• Me 2000-2003, Arts Centre Beursschouwburg, Brussels

2003

• Me 49, Me 42, Me 44, Made in Paris, TheSpace@inIVA, London

2002

• “Identité, métissage et autres arrangements” series, Salon by Meshec Gaba, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2001

• “Me 1997 – 2000”, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb
• “Wanted” performance, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York

2000

• “Wanted” performance, Galeries Lafayette windows, Avignon

1999

• “Wedding I”, Tacheles Kunsthaus, Berlin
• “Vote” posters, Tehran
• “Sans Titre”, TRAC in FRAC: Fonds régional d’art contemporain, Montpellier

1998

• “Red Home III”, Mardabad
• “Red Home IV”, Mardabad
• “1997 – ­2003 Wanted” performances in Berlin, Montpellier, Stockholm, Paris, Sète…

1997

• “Untitled, too”; Medamothi Artistic Cockpit, Montpellier “Sheep take IV”, Vitrines Ephemeres, Avignon

1996

• “Untitled”, Medamothi Artistic Cockpit, Montpellier Andata/Ritorno Gallery, Geneva
• “Red Home II”, Mardabad

1995

• “Make War Not Love” action, Berlin
• “Ohne Titel”, Mulack 23, Berlin

1994

• “B(l)ack Home is a B(l)ack home”, L’Usine, Nimes
• “B(l)ack Home is a B(l)ack home”, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin

1993

• “Red Home I”, Mardabad

selected group shows

2019

• Dramaturkia, University of Antwerp,Antwerp
• The Construction of the Possible , 13th Havanna Biennial, Havanna

2018

• Persona Grata, Mac Val, Vitry-Sur-Marne
• Visual Dialogue, Warehouse 46, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai,UAE
  
• #WeToo, Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE
• Koorts,  Emergent Gallery, Veurne
• The Bic Collection, 104 Centquatre, Paris

2017

• Pillars, Carrington, Gent
• Landscape – Up Close, Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran
• Wedding @ Limited Access 7, New Media Society, Tehran
• Paris fashion week: The Tangibility of Garment, Body and Power, Versus Art Project, Istanbul
• The pros and cons of hitch-hiking, Parallel Program of the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece
• Homeland, Çanakkale Art Walk Osnabrück, Germany

2016

• GRASSI invites #2: dazwischen/in/between, GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Germany
• Deportation Regime: Artistic responses to state practices and lived experience of forced removal, CAMP: Center for Art on Migration Politics, Copenhagen

2015

• A History, Art, Architecture, Design from the 80′s to now, Musée National D’Art Moderne (Centre Pompidou) Paris, France
• Manifest Contra-Sexuel, Humain trop Humain, Centre Dramatique National, Montpellier, France

2014

• Deprivation/Pozbawienie, Galerie Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
• Closer Encounters, Carbon 12, Dubai
• “EXPOSED: Women self-portraits”, Kino Arsenal, Berlin

2013

• Sparkle/Jaragheh; Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
• Le Pont, MAC/Marseille, Marseille
• Disaster, Thaddeus Ropac Gallery, Paris Pantin
• re.act.feminism #2, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
• Persebook,  4th Annual of Contemporary Arts, Tehran
• Femmeusesaction #24, MuCEM, Marseille

2012

• Si je dis la verité personne ne me croira : Ghazel & students of  l’ENSAPC, ENSAPC Ygrec, Paris
• re.act.feminism #2, Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdansk, Poland
• re.act. feminism#2, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević Zagreb, Croatia
• Forward/Vorwärts, Q Contemporary, Beirut, Lebanon
• Pulso Iraniano, Oi Futuro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
• Pulso Iraniano, SESC Vila Mariana, Sao Paolo, Brazil
• re.act.feminism #2, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
• re.act.feminism #2, Tallinna Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia
• re.act.feminism #2, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain

2011

• Open Frame, Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain, Sète
• CENTRE POMPIDOU: Video Art Collection (1965 - 2010), Centre Culturel Français Izmir, Turkey
• Pulso Iraniano, Espaço OI FUTURO, Rio de Janeiro
• J'ai deux Amours, Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris
• re.act.feminism #2, a performing archive ; Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Espagne
• Home (stories) @ Festival international MediaWave, Szombathely, Hungary
• Road Movie @ Vidéo’Val : Résister, résistance, résistant-e; l’université Paris-Est Créteil, France

2010

• Living Across: Spaces of Migration, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
• Iran & Co., the Archive, Documentary: Iran Beyond Borders (1960-2010), ‘La Brugeoise’, Bruges, Belgium
• I Am Not Half the Man I Used to Be, Dar Al Funoon Gallery, Kuwait
• Time after Time, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, USA
• Veiled Memoirs: Contemporary Art from Iran, XIV Biennale Donna (Woman Biennial), Contemporary Art Museum, Ferrara, Italy
• The Stalking of Absence (vis-à-vis Iran), Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan

2009

• Elles@Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969-2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Holland
• La Ruche en d’autres thermes, Palais Lumière, Evian, France
• Raad O Bargh- 17 Artists from Iran, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris
• Me 1997-2000 @ Art Park, Art Dubai 2009
• The view from elsewhere / Small acts, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia
• Urgent, shown at the permanent collection, la Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris
• The view from elsewhere / Small acts, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
• Home (stories)@ Utopia; ici et là, Chateau de Saint Ouen, Saint Ouen
• La Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration à Sao Paolo, Memorial do imigrante, Sao Paolo, Brazil
• Raad o Bargh, Kunstraum Deutsche Bank, Salzbourg, Austria
• FIAC 1, MAMA, Algiers, Algeria

2008

• Laughing in a Foreign Language, The Hayward Gallery, London
• Home (stories) @ Southbank Centre, London
• Home (stories) @ Espace Cardin, Paris
• Home (stories) @ FID Marseille, Marseille, France
  Home (stories) @ 5th Venice Film Meeting, Venice
• Home (stories) @ 21st Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, Virginia
• Home (stories) @25th Festival international du film francophone de Tübingen-Stuttgarts
• Crack Up, Khastoo Gallery, Los Angeles
• Video screening, 'bedün´ ə onvän´ / Untitled Series', part of 'Iran: New Voices', the Barbican Center, London

2007

• Normal Love, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
• 24th Memorial of Nadezda Petrovic. Cacak, Serbia
  Androïde contre Humain, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier
  Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Holland
• Inauguration, Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

2006

• Zones of Contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
• Humor Me, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
• Diari, Galleria 1000eventi, Milan, Italy
• Why Pictures Now?, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
• Incipit, Ricard prize 2006,Espace Ricard, Paris
• Femmeuses, Parc St.Leger Centre d’Art, Pouges-les-Eaux, France

2005

• Belonging, 7th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
• Inhabituel, Fabbrica  del Vapore, Milan
• Peripheral Vision,Void Gallery, Derry,Ireland
• Risk Creative Action in Political Culture, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
• Emergency Biennale, Grozny,Chechnya+ Palais de Tokyo, Paris
• ID Troubles U.S. Visit, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY, USA
• L'humanité mise à nu et l'art en frac, même, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain,Luxemburg
• Sweet Taboos, Episode 2 :To Lose Without Being A Loser,3rd Tirana Biennial, Tirana, Albania

2004

• Social Creatures: How Body Becomes Art, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
• Far Near Distance, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
• Pequenas Escenas, Galeria Animale, Santigago de Chile, Chile
• Veil, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
• Postcards from Cuba, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
• Fragmented Mirror,CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
• Minority Report, Station 1 : The Equestrian hall, Aahrus, Denmark
• ID Troubles, Halle für Kunst, Lueneburg, Germany
• OK America!, Apex Art, New York, USA
• Clandestines, Forte Spagnolo, L’Aquila, Italy
• Movimento-Movimenti, in Bagheria, Matera, Lecce, Reggio Calabria and Campobasso, Italy

2003

• Clandestines, 50th International Exhibition, Venice Biennal, Venice, Italy
• El Arte con La Vida, 8th Havana Biennal, Havana, Cuba
• VEIL, organized by inIVA at The New Art Gallery, Walsall; Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool; MOMA, Oxford, UK
• Voyages d’Artistes: Algérie 03, Espace Electra, Paris, France
• Aletheia, Gothebourg Art Museum, Sweden
• Haft: 7 Iranian Artists, Espace Landowsky, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

2002

• “Lewis Caroll confiture demain et confiture hier, Mais jamais confiture auj”, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain de Sète, France
• “Dom/Home”, Museum of Contemporary Art Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• “Wanted/Urgent”, Photo Cairo, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
• “Nuit Blanche, plus qu’une image”, Ancienne Pompes Funèbres, Paris
• “Urgent­Wanted”, Qamariyeh Gallery ,Birzeit University, Palestine
• International Video Festival, Palestine

2001

• “Iranian Contemporary Art”, The Barbican Centre, London
• “Regards Persans”, Espace Electra, Paris
• “My Generation”, Atlantis Gallery, London
• ISCP open studio exhibition, New York

2000

• “Ekbatana”, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Arts Center, Copenhagen

1999

• “Untitled with Roxana”, 13 Vanak st. Space, Tehran
• “Chronicle of Void and Beyond with Kaveh Golestan”, Golestan Gallery, Tehran

1998

• Marknaden, Stockholm, Sweden
• “Cet Eté Là”, CRAC: Centre régional d’Art Contemporain, Sète

1996

• Ouvert la Nuit, Avignon

1995

• “Club Berlin”, Kunstwerke at the Venice Biennial, Italy
• Artistes au lycée, Montpellier
• Biennale des Jeunes Artistes, Rijeka

1994

• 2ème Etage Sur Cour, Paris

1993

• “914 km Nimes­Aix la Chapelle”, l’Usine, Nimes
• “39 jeunes Artistes”, Arcana Gallery, Montpellier
• Biennale des Jeunes, Rijeka

1992

• Biennial of Young European Creators, Museo de la Ciutat, Valencia
• Biennial of Young European Creators, Carre St. Anne, Montpellier

1991

• “Works on Paper”, B gallery, Nimes
• “914 km Aachen­Nimes”, Ludwig Forum für International Kunst, Aachen

permanent collections

“Urgent” posters exhibited permanently at La Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris

public collections

• Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
• FRAC: Fond régional d’art contemporain, Languedoc­Roussillion, Montpellier
• MUMOK: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
• La Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris
• SPM: Salsali Private Museum, Dubai
• Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
• BIC Collection, Paris

awards/grants

• 2018 Chevalier (Knight) of the Order of Arts and Letters
• 2016 Shortlist Nomination, The Sovereign Middle East & North Africa Art Prize, Dubai
• 2006 Nomination for Prix Ricard 2006, Paris
• 2005 AIC grant, DRAC Ile-de-France, Paris
• 2004 Residency at CCA, Glasgow
• 04&05 Residency at Recollets, Paris
• 02&03 Residency at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
• 2000 Grant from CNAP (French Ministry of Culture) for New York
• 2001 Residency at ISCP Studio Program, New York
• 1998 Grant from Margarethen Stiftung, Leipzig, Germany
• 1997 Artist in Residence, UMIST University, Manchester, England
• 1996 AIC grant from DRAC (Ministry of Culture), France
  Grant from Margarethen Stiftung & artist in residence, Kaditzch, Germany
• 1993 Grant from OFAJ for a residency in Berlin
  Artist in residence, Tacheles Kunsthaus, Berlin