EDUCATION

MFA, 2016, LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute

College of Art, Baltimore, MD

BFA, 2010, Art University of Tehran, Painting, Tehran, Iran

Diploma, School of the Visual Arts, Painting, Tehran, Iran

SELECTED SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

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    

Untitled Miami Art Fair: Booth A26, Sophia Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL

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    

The Maps: Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2010   

Last Night: Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021    

Visual Unpredictability: Patrick Parrish Gallery, New York, NY

Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles Edition: Haines Gallery, virtual

The Joy of Painting: Dastan’s Basement, Tehran, Iran

Performance Anxiety: Allegheny art Galleries, Allegheny, PA

2020   

On The Verge: Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

Vortex: Wehby gallery, New York, NY

2019    

Likeness: 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

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: 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: 1 x 1 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, Ira

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2019     

Cara Ober, “Artist Archivists,” Bmore Art Issue #8, Fall

Interview  with  Alexandra Chaves, “Artists VS. Nations,” Canvas Magazine, Summer

Farley, Michael Anthony, “US-Based Iranian Artist Taha Heydari Censors His Own Work to Talk About State Control,” Observer

2018    

Interview with Kate Mothes, “Young Space,” April

2017    

Patterson, Tom, “Review of Subliminal at SECCA,” Winston-Salem Journal, Summer

2016    

“A Conversation with Taha Heydari,” Commotion Magazine, Issue 3, Fall

Shamsaei, Mahsa, “Can We See a Tree in the Forest of TV Zapping, GIFs, Pixels, Hashtags, Posts, Links,” September 4

Johnson, Paddy and Farley, Michael Anthony, “We Went to Artscape: Weird Futures on Saratoga Street, July 21

Press Release, Corrupted

Interview, “A Conversation with Taha Heydari,” July 7

Juliette, Rebecca, Bmore Art, April 4

Farley, Michael Anthony, “PMF VII Weekend Highlights: Exhibitions,” Art City, April 15

2015    

Press Release, “See Something Say Something,” ECFA

Chan, Michele, “Taha Heydari Decodes Radical Propaganda in the Middle East, In Pictures,” Art Radar, April 24