MITRA TABRIZIAN

MITRA TABRIZIAN

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Project B, Contemporary Art, Milan
Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY

2009
Albion gallery, London

2008
Tate Britain, London
Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin

2006
Moderna Mussset (Museum of Modern Art) Stockholm, Sweden

2004
BBK, Bilbao, Spain (catalogue)
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)

2003
Museum of Folkwang, Germany (catalogue)

1998
Minimal Utopia, Camera Austria Gallery, Graz, Austria (poster)

1994
Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, Touring Exhibition, Finland
Gallery Index: Centre of Photography, Touring Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden

1988
Corner House, Manchester

1987
National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford (catalogue)

1986
Chateau d'Eau Gallery, Toulouse, France
Screen Memories’, Perspectief, Rotterdam, Holland
Gallery 400, Touring Exhibition, Chicago
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
International Festival of photography, Traveling Exhibition, Fotojatka, Prague
In and out, Project B, Contemporary Art, Milan
Iranian Pulse, Museu Nacional, (National Museum), Traveling Exhibition, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil

2009
Theatre of the Real, Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
Translation/Tarjama, Queens Museum of Art, NY
The End: Analyzing Art in Troubled Times, Andy Warhol Museum, NY
L'Iran Sans Frontiere, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris
Iran, Inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, NY

2008
Street and Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern
Sotheby’s, London

2007
C International Photo, Phillips de Pury, NY
Wall house project (on the work of an American architect John Hejduk),
Noorderlicht, gallery, Holland and Wall House Foundation
FotoArtFestival, Poland

2006
10th Venice Biennale of architecture, Italian Pavilion Giardini di Castello, Italy
Voodoo Macbeth: a tribute to the work of Orson Welles, De la Warr Pavilion, UK
Contemporary Iranian photography, The House of Artists, Tehran Iran

2005
In the Shadow of Fallen Heroes, Central Asian Biennale in Kyrgyzstan (catalogue)
Safe: an exhibition of contemporary art’, Karlskrona Art Gallery & Blekinge Museum, Sweden (catalogue/ poster)

2004
Far Near Distance, New Positions of Contemporary Iranian Artists, the House of World Cultures Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Veil, The Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (catalogue)
Lumo 04 triennal of Contemporary Photography, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Finland (catalogue)

2003
Aletheia: The Real of concealment, Art Museum, Goteborg, Sweden ‘Veil’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK (catalogue / poster)

2001
Inhabiting, Gallery Lelong , NY

1999
London: Post-Colonial City, Architectural Association, London,UK

1998
Minimal Utopia (Solo show), Camera Austria Gallery, Graz, Austria

1996
Gender- Beyond Memory, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
Family, Nation, Tribe, Community Shift, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)

1995
The Outburst of Signs: Art at the Interfaces of Gender & Race, Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrabe, Munich, Germany (catalogue)

1994
Le Shuttle, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Public Domain’, Art Centre Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain (catalogue)

1993
University of California, Santa Barbara (catalogue)
Museum of Folklwang, Essen, Germany
Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

1992
History Present’, Museum of Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Fine Material for a Dream....? A Reappraisal of Orientalism: 19th & 20th Century Fine Art & Popular Culture, Harris Museum, Preston (catalogue)

1991
Public Images, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Shocks to the System: Social & Political Issues in Recent British Art, Royal Festival Hall, London (catalogue)

1990
Spectacular Women’, Film in the Cities, Saint Paul
Contemporary Social Documentary, Fotobienal, Art History Centre, Vigo, Spain

1989
Mysterious Coincidences’(catalogue): The Photographers' Gallery, London
Fotogallery, Cardiff
Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Long Beach Museum, Los Angeles
Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand
Shifting Focus (catalogue): Serpentine Gallery, London
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Cambridge Darkroom , Cambridge
City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent
Newport Museum & Art Gallery, Newport
Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston
Through the Looking Glass: Photographic Art in Britain,1945- 89, Barbican Art
Gallery, London (catalogue)
The Boundaries of Photography, Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland (catalogue)
Some Notions on Marginality, Grey Art Gallery, NYU Study Centre, New York, NY

1988
The Other Body’, Photographic Resource Centre, Boston, MA (catalogue)
Billboards: New Castle, Derry, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Canada
International Photography’, Metronom, Barcelona (catalogue)
Reflections on the Media, Perspektief, Rotterdam
Towards the Photograph as a Vulgar Document, Optica Gallery, Montreal (catalogue)
The Body Politic, The Photographers' Gallery, London (catalogue)
Sexual Difference Both Sides of the Camera, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY (catalogue)

1986
International Photography, Arles International Gallery, Arles
Magnificent Obsession, ARC Gallery, Toronto
Impostors, Interim Art Gallery, London (catalogue)
Towards a Bigger Picture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (catalogue)
European Women Photographers Today, Torino otografia, Torino, Italy (catalogue)
Beyond the Purloined Image, The Riverside, London
The Way We Live Now: Beyond Social Documentary, PS1 Gallery, New York, NY
Phototextes, Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva (catalogue)
Five Photographers’; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (catalogue)
The Actress’; The Photographers Gallery


SELECTED FILMS
2004
Writer & Director of ‘The Predator’, AHRB Innovation Awards, Arts & Humanities Research Board, (35 mm, 28 minutes)
1993
Writer & Director of ‘Journey of No Return’, BFI, British Film Institute (16mm, 23 minutes)
1990
Writer & Director of ‘The Third Woman’, BFI, (16 mm, 20 minutes)

SELECTED FILM FESTIVALS
2006
Tiburon International Film Festival
Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival
Malta International Short Film Festival

2005
The Predator: Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, France
Film Society, LA
Exile Film Festival, Sweden
Cinema East Film Festival, NY


OTHER VENUES
2009
Queens Museum of Art, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, NY

2008
Tate Britain
Iran: New Voices, Barbican Cinema

2007
The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
International Photography Festival (ULIS photo FEST), Istanbul, Turkey

2006
Istanbul photo Biennale, Turkey
Moderna Mussset (Museum of Modern art) Stockholm, Sweden

2005
‘Far from a deceitful world’, Saarijärvi Musuem, Finland

1993-1996
Journey of No Return distributed by BFI
Toronto International Film Festival,Canada
Turin International Film Festival, Italy
Birmingham International Film & Television Festival, UK.
Berlin International Film Festival, Germany
‘The World is My Home’ The International Exile Film Festival, Gothenburg,
Sweden Festival of Iranian Cineaste in Diaspora (FICD),
‘Women in Hollywood’s Chair’, Chicago

1990-1994
The Third Woman distributed by BFI
Creteil International Women’s Film Festival, France
Chicago International Film Festival
BP Expo, London, UK
Norwich Women’s Film Festival, UK
Melbourne Film Festival Australia, (selected for Kino awards)
Birmingham International Film & Television Festival, UK
Foyle Film festival, Ireland
Leeds International Film Festival
‘The World is My Home’ The International Exile Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
Festival of Iranian Cineaste in Diaspora (FICD)

1993-1999
Metro Cinema
BFI Summer Shorts
Thames Valley University, MA in Cultural Studies
Leeds University
London School of Economics
London University, School of Oriental & African studies
Sheffield University
Luton University
‘Women & Islam’, Institute of Contemporary Arts
‘New British Cinema’, Institute of Contemporary Arts
University Art Museum, Berkeley
Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm,Sweden
Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Institute of Contemporary Arts), Berlin, Germany
The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany.
International Conference of Photography, Graz, Austria
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography’, Japan
‘...East of here..: (re)imagining the ‘orient’, YYZ (gallery) , Toronto, Canada
‘Reinventing britain’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, USA
Museum of Folkwang, Essen, Germany


SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Musée d'Art Moderne (Museum of Modern Art), Luxembourg
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Moderna Mussset (Museum of Modern art) Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Zoroastrian Cultural Centre, Paris, France
Sparkasse Essen, Germany
Stichting Fotografie Noorderlicht, Netherlands
The Arts Council of Great Britain
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK
The Moravian Gallery, Czechoslovak
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland

AWARDS
2005 Arts & Humanities Research Center (AHRC) Research Leave Grant
The Arts Council, UK
2004 Arts & Humanities Research Center (AHRC) Grants in the Creative &
Performing Arts
2003 Arts & Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Innovation Awards
1996 London Arts Board
1993 British Film Institute
Greater London Arts (GLA), film award
British Film Institute
Photographers' Gallery Trust Fund
1987 Metro Billboard Project, Newcastle, UK
Greater London Arts, photography award
1985 National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, photography award, UK
Greater London Arts, photography award
Arts Council photography award, UK