• 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 Exhibitions:

2026

• XXXIV+XIV+…, Konj [Karteh], Tehran
• Still Life, a series of interventions in public spaces, Paris and Tehran

2025

• Lapsus, Galerie ICI, Bourg des Comptes, Brittany, France
• Lapsus [Archives], Galerie ICI, Bourg des Comptes, Brittany, France
• Road Movie XXIV, performance, Bourg des Comptes, Brittany, France

2024

• Parallel Routes: Ghazel & Mamadollah’s Stories, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada
• Untitled, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2023

• In Transit, MAC Panamá, Panama
• Road Movie 23, performance, Pepa Festival, MAC Panamá, Panama

2022

• Geopolitical Anamorphoses, Municipal Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Road Movie 22, performance, Municipal Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Unheimlich / Cartographies, Bilsart, Istanbul, Turkey
• Archives 4 / Still Lives, New Media Society, Tehran, Iran

2021

• Still Lives, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• Archives 3 / Routes, New Media Society, Tehran, Iran
• Archives 3 (part 2) / Borders, New Media Society, Tehran, Iran

2020

• Outputs II (Performance), Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
• Archives 2 / Summaries, New Media Society, Tehran
• Road Movie 21, performance, Image et résistance/Impact Chili, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris

2019

• Outputs I (Performance), 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, performance, Limited Access 8, New Media Society, Tehran

2018

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

2017

• Mismappings, ISCP, Brooklyn, New York, USA
• 1366 [1987], Otagh Bargh, Dastan Outside, Tehran
• Road Movie XV, performance, Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne, Germany
• Road Movie IX, performance, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany
• Road Movie XIV, performance, ISCP, Brooklyn, 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, Denmark
• Tracking Shot, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
• Road Movie X & XI, performance and projection, Centre d’Art Contemporain St. Restitut, France
• Mea Culpa, Carbon 12 Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2015

• Intersections, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 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 Gallery, Dubai
• Marée Noire / Mother Tongue / Archive 1, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
• Road Movie VI, performance, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Bourges, France

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 Gallery, 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, The Space, 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
• Urgent, 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

Group Exhibitions (selection):

2026

• Borderlands, Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye, England
• What the Land Remembers: counter archives from Iran, Argos, Brussels
• Chose publique, Beffroi Saint-Martin, Souillac, France

2025

• Migrations et Climat, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, France
• Dans les plis des cartes, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes
• The Art of Activism, Galerie Hlavního Města Prahy, Prague

2024

• Script Girls, Musée Champollion, Figeac, France
• Chaque vie est une histoire, Musée nationale de l’histoire d’immigration, Paris
• L’Olympia Odyssey, Language and Feminism, MoW, Incheon, South Korea
• Khosrownāmeh, Azad Gallery, Tehran

2023

• Le Levant et le Couchant, Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie du Périgord, Périgueux, France
• Border, Azad Gallery, Tehran

2022

• Look up: Starry Horizons of Limited Geographies, Bursa / Nilufer, Turkey

2021

• Untitled 9, performance, Amber Art and Technology Festival, Istanbul, Turkey

2020

• Musée, Galerie Italienne, Paris
• Musée 2, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy

2019

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

2018

• Persona Grata, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
• The BIC Collection, 104, Paris
• Koorts, Emergent Gallery, Veurne, Belgium
• #WeToo, Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE
• Bakhtiar Collection, Pop project Art week, Al Serkal, Dubai, UAE

2017

• Pillars, Carrington, Gent, Belgium
• 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, Thaddaeus 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, 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’ e 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
• Séances d’automne,École supérieure d’art du Nord-Pas de Calais / site Tourcoing • Tourcoing

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 Nimes – Aix-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 Aachen – Nimes, Ludwig Forum für International Kunst, Aachen

Permanent Exhibition:

“Urgent” posters were exhibited permanently at Musée nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris from 2009 to 2019.

Public Collections:

• Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
• CNAP, Paris, France
• FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, France
• MUMOK: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
• Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France
• FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MECA, Bordeaux, France
• Afkhami Collection, Dubai, UAE
• Aishti Collection, Beirut, Lebanon
• BIC Collection, Paris, France
• SPM: Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE

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 – 2005 Residency at Recollets, Paris
• 2004 Residency at CCA, Glasgow
• 2002 – 2003 Residency at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
• 2001 Residency at ISCP Studio Program, New York
• 2000 Grant from CNAP (French Ministry of Culture) for 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

Conferences:

Since 2001, Ghazel has given many talks and conferences around the world, including: Université Paris 8, Princeton University, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Santiago de Chile, Université Rennes II, Musashino Art University Tokyo, Toronto Metropolitan University, Kunsthochschule für Medien Cologne, Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, École nationale supérieure d’art Bourges, Bilsart Istanbul, Southbank Centre London, Festival internationale de géographie de Saint-Dié, Akademie der Künste Berlin.