b. 1986 Tehran, Iran
Baltimore, MD
tahaydari@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2016 MFA, Painting, LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD
2010 BFA, Painting, Art University of Tehran, Iran
2005 Diploma in Painting, School of the Visual Arts, Tehran, Iran
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Glass Lasts Longest, online exhibition, Ab-Anbar Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2020 Backscatter, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Impact Crater, Ab-Anbar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018 Dual-Use: Baltimore to Samarra, School 33, Baltimore, MD
Running Rabbits, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Subliminal, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
2016 Corrupted, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 See Something Say Something, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
2011 Last Night, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010 The Maps, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 How Do We Know the World?, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
These Are a Few of My Favorite Things, curated by Michael Sherman, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Thingamajig, Ab-Anbar Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2021 Visual Unpredictability, curated by Kenny Schacter, Gabriel Schacter, and Adrian Schacter, Patrick Parrish Gallery, New York, NY
Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles Edition, Haines Gallery, online
Artissima Art Fair, Ab-Anbar, booth Green 11, Turin, Italy
The Joy of Painting, curated by Kiarash Alimi, Dastan's Basement, Tehran, Iran
Performance Anxiety, Allegheny Art Galleries, Allegheny, PA
Make Good Trouble: Marching for Change, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, Baltimore, MD
2020 On The Verge, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
Vortex, curated by Allison Zuckerman, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Artissima Art Fair, Ab-Anbar Gallery, booth Pink A25, Turin, Italy
Likenesses, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fears of Art, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
2017 The Armory Show, New York, NY
2016 Echo Chamber, Gallery CA, Baltimore, MD
Art Miami, booth C205, Haines Gallery, Miami, FL
The Edge, Ballroom Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Surface Tension, Current Space, Baltimore, MD
The Simurgh, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
Young Blood, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2015 In the Cloud, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
Tracing Fiction, Chicken Box, Baltimore, MD
2014 Painting Wall (Janus at 8:16), Touch Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2013 Speaking From the Heart, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 Post Pop, Mah Mehr Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Fresh Air, De Winkelhaak Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
No Subject, 1x1 Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2011 Breakfast in Tehran, Frameless Gallery, London, UK
Recycled Art, FA Gallery, Kuwait
Weltanschauung, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany
Persbook Festival, Sin Art Gallery, Tehran
AWARDS
2019 Individual Artist Award in Painting from the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) Maryland, US
Semi Finalist, 14th annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. Baltimore, MD, Finalist, Bethesda Painting Awards, Bethesda, MD
2016 Meyerhoff Graduate Fellowship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Diversity Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art
2009 First Fadjr International Festival of Visual Arts, Tehran, Iran
SELECTED PRESS
2021 Tamasha Program, BBC Farsi, February 15, 2021
Kelsey Ables, “At Baltimore’s Reginald F. Lewis Museum, a show on recent history that’s urgently of the moment,” The Washington Post, January 27, 2021
2019 Cara Ober, “Artist Archivists,” BmoreArt Issue #8, Fall 2019
Interview with Alexandra Chaves, “Artists VS. Nations,” Canvas Magazine, Summer 2019
Michael Anthony Farley, “US-Based Iranian Artist Taha Heydari Censors His Own Work to Talk About State Control,” Observer, Spring 2019
2018 Interview with Kate Mothes, Young Space, April 2018
2017 Tom Patterson, Review of Subliminal at SECCA, Winston-Salem Journal, Summer
2016 A Conversation with Taha Heydari, Commotion Magazine, Issue 3, Fall 2016
Mahsa Shamsaei, “Can We See a Tree in the Forest of TV Zapping, GIFs, Pixels, Hashtags, Posts, Links,” youngpersianartists.com, September 4, 2016
Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley, “We Went to Artscape: Weird Futures on Saratoga Street,” Artfcity.com, July 21, 2016
Press Release, Corrupted, artsy.net/show/haines-gallery-taha-heydari-corrupted
Interview, “A Conversation with Taha Heydari,” mica.edu/News/A_Conversation_with_Taha_Heydari, July 7, 2016
Rebecca Juliette, BmoreArt, bmoreart.com/event/the-edge-paintings-by-taha-heydari-and-julia-garcia-ballroom-gallery, April 4, 2016
Michael Anthony Farley, “PMF VII Weekend Highlights: Exhibitions,” ArtFCity, Artfcity.com/2016/04/15/pmf-vii-weekend-highlights, April 15, 2016
2015 Michele Chan, “Taha Heydari Decodes Radical Propaganda in the Middle East, In Pictures,” Art Radar, April 24, 2015