SHIVA AHMADI

SHIVA AHMADI

EDUCATION

2005 Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Master of Fine Arts, Painting
2003 Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, Master of Fine Arts, Drawing
2000 Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, Master of Art, Drawing
1998 Azad University, Tehran, Iran, Bachelor of Fine Art, Painting

ART RESIDENCY

Skowhegan Art Residency, Skowhegan, Maine Jun-Aug 2003

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2013 Solo exhibition at Leila Heller Gallery, New York, [Forthcoming]
2012 "The Rule and Its Exceptions", Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston
Solo exhibition at Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
"The Fertile Crescent", Rutgers University Museum, NJ
2011 Jasmin, Sabine Knust Gallery, Munich, Germany
Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Art X Detroit, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
Dis[Locating] Culture, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh
Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Shiva Ahmadi, VIP Art Fair 2011
2010 Shiva Ahmadi: Reinventing the Poetics of Myth (solo exhibition), Leila Heller Gallery, NY
Art Dubai 2010, Dubai, UAE
Tehran – New York, Leila Heller Gallery, NY
Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2009 Iran inside out, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Selseleh, Leila Heller Gallery, New York
Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul Turkey
2008 Conference of the Birds, Flawless Gallery, London, England
Contemporary Asian Art, Sotheby’s London, England
Ahmadi & Zhang, Feldman Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Distant shores: Cultural exchange in contemporary Art, McIninch Art Gallery, New Hampshire
Splash, Leila Heller Gallery, New York
East West Dialogues,” Leila Heller Gallery, New York
2007 Merging influences, Eastern Elements in New American Art, Montserrat Art Gallery, Boston
Why Project, Detroit project, Detroit, MI
2006 Figuratively speaking, Elga Wimmer gallery, New York
2005 Three Positions, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
Oil Crisis, LTMH gallery, New York (Solo show)
Atomica, Lombard-Freid project and Esso Gallery, New York
Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, Maine
Cross Current, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
2003 Biennial Art Competition, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana
Detroit Now, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Rochester, MI
2002 New Shoes, Tangent Gallery, Detroit, MI
Exchange, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2000 Academics 2002, Paint Creek Center for Arts, Detroit, MI
Y2K, MCCA Gallery, Detroit, MI

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2009 Kresge Artist Fellowship 2009, Kresge Foundation
2008 Nominated for Altoid Award (2008) by The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2004 First Prize, NYC 6th National Juried Exhibition, New York, NY
First Prize, Biennial Art Competition, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
2003 First prize, Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
John & Irene Sowinski scholarship, Wayne State University, 2002/2003
Graduate Professional Scholarship, Wayne State University, 2002/2003
2002 Second Prize, 2002 Michigan Drawing Biennial Exhibition, Ford Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI
2001 Thomas C. Rumble University Graduate Fellowship, the most prestigious Fellowship at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

2010 Reinventing the Poetics of Myth, Catalog essay by Benjamin Genocchio
2009 Iran Inside out: influences of homeland Diaspora on the artistic language of contemporary Iranian artist, Anthony Downey, Chelsea Art Museum press.
2008 Different Sames: New Perspective in Contemporary Iranian Art,
Hossein Amirsadeghi, Trans Globe Publishing LD. London, England
Conference of the Birds, Ladan Akbarnia, Beradi and Sagharchi Projects LTD.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2012
Christopher Lord, "Art Dubai fair comes to an end for another year", The National, UAE News
2011
Feri Daftari, “Shiva Ahmadi and altered miniature paintings”, Canvas Magazine
Elaine Pasquini “Dis[Locating] Culture” Brings New Ideas, Style to Islamic Art in America, Washington Report
2010
Carol Kino, “Iranian shine, Assisted by expatriate” The New York Times
Shiva Ahmadi, “Reinventing the Poetics of Myth” New York art Daily
Kelly Crow, Bonhams Votes for Iranian Art, The Wall Street Journal
2009
Benjamin Genocchio “Import/export in the heat of the moment” Art in America Nov/2009, issue 10
Lilly Wei, Selseleh/Zelzeleh at Leila Heller Gallery” Art News, Oct 2009
Holland Cotter, ”Iran Inside Out” The New York Times, July 2009
Nazi Nazhand “Abu Dhabi report” Artnet Magazine, November 2009
Melik Kaylan “The view from here” The Wall Street Journal, Aug 2009
Lori Waxman, Art Galleries: Iran as you’ve never seen it before”
Chicago Tribune, October, 2009
2008
Benjamin Genocchio “A dialogue between tradition and innovation”
The New York Times, November 7, 2008
2007
Joel Brown “New American Art, informed by the East” The Boston Globe, Sep. 2007
2006
Biro, Mathew “Contemporary developments in Drawing” Contemporary 21, August
Crawford, Lynn, “The Mind’s Eye” Web link, http://www.markszine.com, March 2006
2005
Rutter, Ben. Art Review; “It's pronounced nu-cle-ar” New York Art, September 2005
Roberts, Bryony Art Review; Art in the City “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road”
L Magazine New York, August 2005
2004
Haddad, Natalie “Displaced,” Real Detroit Weekly, April, 2004
Pilgian, Ellen “Expats on show” Metro Times, April, 2004


COLLECTIONS

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
The Farjam Collection, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
His Highness Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi