Taraneh Hemami

Artista, MIA Fair 2023 @ Ag

Taraneh Hemami, Cutouts, 2006

Courtesy: Artist and Ag Galerie

Collage on wood, with encaustic
Collage on wood, with encaustic
Dimensioni / Size: 90x120x10 cm
Edizione / Edition: Unique
Prezzo / Price: 24,000

Found Photography has found a strong place in recent years in the Middle East. Artists using such photographs in a new context and with newfound mean- ing are doing so for both aesthetics and concept. In the pre-Revolution era, the photography of Iran tends to depict women without the veil and histori- cally, it references a specific period of life in Iran between the banishment and enforcement of the veil as in the work of Taraneh Hemami.
Born and raised in Tehran, Iran prior to the Revolution and currently living and working in San Francisco, Hemami explores the complex cultural politics of exile through personal and collective narratives, virtual space, layers of history and projects. She engages in diverse strategies including instal- lation, object and media productions, collective and participatory projects to explore themes of displacement, preservation, and representation. In Cut- outs (2002-2006) from the Hall of Reflection series, she uses old vernacu- lar photographs of the 1960’s and 70’s Iran to confront you with the images and photographs of a simultaneously private and public world; it is a world that traces the scattered memories and migrations of Iranians in the later half of this century to the place where they live now, the San Francisco Bay Area. Hall of Reflections awakens and presents the stories, "remembrances" and traces of the multi-generational and multi-faceted history of Iranians in this area.

Taraneh Hemami

Iran/USA @ Iran/USA
http://taranehhemami.com

TARANEH HEMAMI

Public Art projects
2022 Green Parcels, Temporary public art; SFArtsEd; Bay View Hunters point, San Francisco CA 2020 PROFILES, Public art project, FaceBook, Menlo Park, CA
One Oak; Artsource Consulting, Carmel and Partners, permanent public art, Oakland, CA 2019 WITNESS; SFAC Art on Market Street Poster Kiosk series, temporary public art; San Fran- cisco, CA
2017-18 Yekseda (One Voice); Montalvo Arts Center, temporary public art; Saratoga, CA
2015 People Power, Print Public; Kala Art Institute; temporary public art; San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, CA
2011-13 FREE, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, temporary public art, San Francisco, CA

EXHIBITIONS
2020-22 Human Image: Masterpieces of Figurative Art from the British Museum, La Caixa; Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Saragossa, Palma and Valencia, Spain
2021 Green Parcels, SFArtsEd at Minnesota Street Project, SF, CA
2021 Hall of Reflections, Solo Exhibition, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2020-21 Ceramic Art from the Middle East, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2020 Witness at SFARTSED Project, Minnesota Street Projects, SF, CA
Art as Activism, Ruth’s Table, Curated by Hanna Regev, Sausalito, CA
2019 Capturing the Past; Pergamon Museum, Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, Germany
2018 Take Action, Hubble Street Galleries, CCA, CA
2018 Mind is the Only Truth I’ve Found; Minnesota Street Project; SF, CA
2018 Home: Making Space for Radical Love and Struggle; Oliver Art Center, CCA, Oakland, CA Beyond Borders: Stories of im/Migration; Santa Clara University
2017 Now Hear This! An Exercise in Listening, Montalvo Arts Center, commission, Saratoga, CA
2017 The Museum of Capitalism, a project by Fictilis, Jack London Square, Oakland, CA
2017 Seeking Civilization: Art and Cartography, Wendi Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Mashrabiyah, The Art of Looking Back, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2017 Rise Up! SFArtsED Gallery; Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
2016 Avaar (Ruins), solo installation; Ag Galerie; Tehran, Iran
2016 World Between; Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Extension.ir; Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016 Chain Reaction; SFAC Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2016 The Human Spirit, Contemporary Figuration as an Expression of Humanity; Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2016 Declarations for the New Year, Related Tactics Collective, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
2015 Bulletin, California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS)
2015 Print Public, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2015 Ventriloquist, Photo Issue, Publication project by Whitney Lynn, San Francisco, CA
2015 Making a Scene, in collaboration with Invisible Venue, at SomArts, San Francisco, CA
2014 /seconds, Sharjah Arts Foundations, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
2014 True to Life?, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
2014 In the City, Hanover Project, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
2014 Short Stories, Dar Al-Funoon Gallery, Kuwait City
2014 Ping Pong, US Embassy, Belgrade, Serbia
2013 Resistance; solo exhibition at Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Reverberations of Stone; solo installation, curated performances; St. Ignatius Church, USF
2013 The Open Moment, in collaboration with Invisible Venue, Thoreau Cntr, San Francisco, CA
2013 Passport 13, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Victoria and Albert Museum, commission, London, UK
2012 Light from the Middle East, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2012 The Future is Now, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2012 Passage, Euphrat Museum, De Anza College, Redwood City, CA
2011 EndGame, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2011 Zendegi, Art and Life in Contemporary Iran, Beirut, Lebanon
2011 A Dream of Eternity, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
2010 Heroes, Martyrs, Legends; Rose Issa Projects, Bastakia, United Arab Emirates Depth of Surface, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2010 Paper Bullets; Grand Central Station, California State University, Fullerton, CA
2008 Evocations, solo exhibition; Rose Issa Projects London, UK
2008 The Way That We Rhyme, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF, CA
2008 We Remember the Sun, Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA
2007 Most Wanted, Solo at Intersection for the Arts, SF, CA
2007 Global Eyes, Siggraph International Exhibition, San Diego, CA
2006 Homes, ZeroOne, International Symposium of Electronic Arts, San Jose, CA
2006 On the Edge of Culture, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
2005 Calling into the Void, Works, San Jose, CA
2004 Sacred Spaces, Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, CA
2004 Poetics of Proximity, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2003 Sharjah 6th International Biennial, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
2002 Hall of Reflections; solo exhibition; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, SF, CA

Curative/Collective projects
2020-21 Green Parcels, Collective project in collaboration with SF Arts Education Project, Minnesota Street Projects, SF
2020 Once at Present; Triton Museum, co-curated with Kevin Chen, Santa Clara, CA
2019 Part and Parcel; San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
2019 Once at Present; Minnesota St. Project, co-curated with Kevin Chen, San Francisco, CA
2017 Yekseda (One Voice) performance series; as part of Now Hear This! Festival at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2014 Fabrications; A Theory of Survival project; Southern Exposure Gallery; San Francisco, CA
2012 In the Currents; co-curated with Lucy Lin; Kearny Street Workshop; Oakland, CA
2011 Working Conditions, co-curated with curatorial committee members at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2010 Time after Time, co-curated with Maysoun Wazwaz, at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2009 One Day, A Collective Narrative of Tehran; Intersection for the Arts, co-organized with Ghazaleh Hedayat, San Francisco, CA
2008 East of the West; co-curated with Anuradha Vikram, APICC at SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2008 Theory of Survival, Bay Area Now 5, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006 We are Here, Cross Connections, Oliver Arts Center, CCA, Oakland, CA
2005 Represent, Cross Connections, Oliver Arts Center, California College of the Arts, Oak- land, CA
2005 Of Past and Present, Intersection for the Arts, CCA, San Francisco, CA
2000 Beyond Boundaries; as part of IWSF 11, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Awards/ Residencies
2018 Focus Award, Kearny Street Workshops
2018 Zellerbach Family Foundation, Community Arts Award Kala Master Artist Award
2017 Zellerbach Family Foundation, Community Arts Award
2016 Spectra: A Counting; West Wall Commission; Walter and Elise Haas Fund, San Francisco
2018 Zellerbach Family Foundation, Community Arts Award
2014 San Francisco Arts Commission, Individual Artist Award, SF, CA
2014 California College of the Arts, Faculty Project Award 2013 California Humanities’ Community Stories Award, SF, CA
2012 Creative Capital grant
2012 Center for Cultural Innovation’s Artist Innovation Award Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation
2012 Victoria and Albert Museum, Collection Purchase California College of the Arts, Faculty Project Award
2009 British Museum, Art Fund, Collection Purchase
2008 The Lab, Residency, SF, CA
2007 Kala Art Institute, Fellowship Award, Berkeley, CA
2007 San Francisco Foundation, Visual Arts Award
2005-6 Center for Art and Public Life, Residency, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2004 Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodlands, CA
2004 Visions from the New California Award, Alliances for Artists Residency
2004 San Francisco Arts Commission, Cultural Equity Grant
2000 Creative Work Fund, Visual Arts Award, SF, CA

Professional Experiences
2005 California College of the Arts, Senior Adjunct Professor 2018-23 Southern Exposure, Board of Directors
2016-19 Zallerbach Family Foundation, Community Grant Panel Advisor
2018 San Francisco Art Institute: MFA mentorship; SF, CA
2017 San Francisco State University, School of Art, Graduate Seminar, Spring; San Francisco Art Institute: GLS
2016 Kenneth Rainin Foundation; Open Spaces Public Art Award, Advisor
2015-16 IRAN/AMERICA; Iranian Diaspora Digital Archive Project, Advisor
2015 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Passport project, Award Advisor; California Col- lege of the Arts, Advisor
2013 Headlands Center for the Arts, Awards Advisor for Alumni Residency Award
2010-13 Southern Exposure, Curatorial Committee
2008-12 Visual Aids, Awards Advisor
2011 Visions for the New California Award, Alliance of Artist Communities, Award Advisor
2010 San Francisco Arts Commission, Cultural Equity, Individual Artist Grant; Awards Advisor; Parsa Foundation, Advisor
2009 Parsa Foundation; Awards Advisor; California College of the Arts, Awards Advisor
2008 Siggraph International Exhibition; Insider/Outsider, Roots Division, Award Advisor
2007 Creative Work Fund, Awards Advisor
2003 San Francisco Arts Commission, Cultural Equity Organizational Grant, Award Advisor
Presentations/Panels
2019 Contemporary Practice, Panel, Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies International Con- ference, SFSU, SF
2017 Teaching Art of the Middle East and Islamic World, San Francisco State University, de Young Museum, SF
2017 ASAP/9: The Arts of the Present; UC Berkeley, CA
2017 I Object! Self Organization + political Agency as Aesthetic practice; Symposium; San Francisco Art Institute
2017 Common Space; Graduate Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
2017 Artist Presentation, Visiting Artist Lecture, San Francisco State University, CA
2016 Artist Presentations at Mills College; Stanford; USF; SFAI
2016 Artist Presentation/panel; Lajevardi Foundation; Tehran, Iran
2016 Artist as Archivist, Animating the Archives, New York University
2016 Golden Thread Productions, Panel, 20th Anniversary Celebrations; La Pena, Berkeley, CA Artist
2016 Presentation/panel at Dominican University of California, Marin, CA
2015 Artist Presentation: Food for Thought lecture series at San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), San Francisco, CA
2015 Global Politics Between the Lines, Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Panel, Chicago, IL
2015 Artist Presentation, University of Oregon, Eugene
2014 Global Citizenship Center, West Valley College, Saratoga, CA
2014 An Artist Who Cannot Speak English is No Artist, Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium, Symposium, San Francisco
2014 Political Aesthetics, Cultures of the Iranian Diaspora Conference, Panel, San Jose, CA
2013 SOCAP 13; “Making Work: Artists as Activists, Collaborators and Storytellers”, panel, SF
2013 Roundtable on Islamic Art, Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University
Samuel Jordan Persian Studies Center at UC Irvine, Theory of Survival Workshop
2012 Victoria Albert Museum, London; Artist Panel
2012 California State University, Monterey, Artist Lecture
2011 Art and Social Justice, Grants for the Arts, San Francisco, Presentation
2011 March Meeting: Sharjah Arts Foundation, UAE; Presentation
2010 Collective Diaspora, Anthropology Workshop, Samuel Jordan Persian Studies Center, University of California, Irvine
2010 LASER, Leonardo Cultural Event, University of San Francisco, CA
2010 Issues and Artists, University of California, Santa Cruz, Artist Lecture The Portrait Reconsidered, Meridian Gallery, Panel
2009 Visual and Cultural Studies Forum, California College of the Arts
2008 The Way that We Rhyme, Panel, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF
2007 Textile Lecture Series, California College of the Arts
2006 Visualizing Bay Area Communities, American Studies Association Conference, Oakland
2005 Iranian Alliance Across Borders International Conference, panel, University of Mary- land, College Park, VA
2004 Image Matters, Symposium, UC Berkeley, CA

Print/Media/Publication
2019 Print: The Art of Leaning Against the Wind; by Sam Whiting; DateBook Chronicle; Go-To-Galleries, by Sura Wood; Bay Area Reporter
2017 Print: Museum of Capitalism, by Fictilis, Printed by Inventory Press; (un)Making, In- terview; Media: Radicate.eu, Interview; This New Museum Imagines a World Where Capitalism is Dead; Artsy Editorial, By SarahBurke; Artpractical, seeing power through the Map, by John Za- robell, April 27; KQED At Wendi Norri, Boundaries Mapped and Defied in Seeeking Civilization, by Roula Seikaly, April 25; Dissolve, Torn Seems and Sound Scores at Gallery Wendi Norris, by Christopher Squire, April 7; SF Weekly, Making Maps for Love, Self, and Anti Colonialism, by Mathew Harrison Tedford, Mar 30; KQED, Looking and Truly Seeing, Roula Siekaly; March 9; SF WEEKLY, Windows on the Wolrd,Jonothan Curiel, March 8.
2016 Print: Signs of our Times, Publication; Rose Issa Projects; SF Weekly, The In-Between by Jonathan Curiel, July 30; The Guardian, Universally Iranian: Artists without Borders; Mat- teo Lonardi, March 8 Media: Jadaliyya, Interview, Nov 5; VOA News (Voice o America), report, July 5; KQED, interview; SFMOMA Open Space, Featured Contributor, March 11; KPFA, Voices of Middle East and South Africa, Interview, March 9
2015 Media: Print Public, by John Zarobell, ArtPractical; Congratulations PineTree, Podcast Interview; Reading by the Fire, Art21 Blog, Edited by Jayna Schwartzman
2014 Print: SF Weekly, by Jonathan Curiel, Oct.14th; “SFAQ Picks: First of Fall– San Fran- cisco”, Sep 16th; SF Gate, “Bay Area visual arts picks”, Sep. 10th. Media: Hyperallergic, “An Iranian-American Artist Revisits Images from the 1979 Revolution” by An Xiao, Oct. 21; KQED Arts, “Taraneh Hemami Creates a Market of Iranian Dissent at Southern Exposure” by Mi- chele Carlson, Sep 17th; Juxtapoz Magazine, “Taraneh Hemami’s Pop-Up Bazaar”, Sep 5th; Cre- ative Capital: THE LAB, “Taraneh Hemami Organizes Pop-Up Bazaar Exploring Iranian Political Activism” by Jenny Gill, Sep 3rd; Browntourage, “Emotion and Education in Art with Taraneh Hemami”, interview, Apr. 9
2013 Print: San Francisco Chronicle, “Pieces of Resistance”, by Kenneth Baker; Bay Guardian, 96 hours, “Taraneh Hemami, Iran and Resistance”, by Nirmala Nataraj. Media: Art Practical, “Resistance” by Jeanne Gerrity; KQED, “Reconsidering Resistance” by Christian Frock
2012 Print: Sculpture Magazine, “FREE”, by Donna Schumacher; Shargh Newspaper, “EndGame”. Simin Dehghani; Media: KUSF in Exile, Interview; BBC Persian, Interview
2011 Print: SF Gate, 96 hours_Art News; Albeiragh, Beirut, Aldiar, Beirut; Media: KUSF in exile, ROLL CALL, Bay Area Arts and Culture, interview; Art Practical, FREE, by Noga Wizonsky 2010 Print: Artillery, Bay Area Artists, by Anuradha Vikram; Afterimage: The Journal of Me- dia Arts and Cultural Criticism, “The Art of Peaceful Protest, by Anuradha Vikram, Jan/Feb; Media: Where We Are Now, Aftermath; Tehran Bureau, “Urban Askance”, Majid Jahan
2009 Print: Contemporary Practices, Profiles, Dubai, UAE, Fall; SF Arts Monthly “At Inter- section: Artists Create A Portrait of Life in Iran”, Sura Wood, Dec.; San Francisco Chroni- cle, “One Day,” Patrick Knowles, Nov.; SFGate “Just Another Ordinary Day in Tehran,” Lauren Parvizi, Nov.; SF Weekly, “Tehran So Far Away: A Group Show the Life,” Traci Vogel, Oct.; Media: SF Station, “Turbulent Waters Run Deep,” Ann Taylor, December; Iranian.com, One Day, Ari Siletz, Nov; Artslant, “Everyday Stories,” Jolene Torr, November; Culture Blog, Nov; Ex- aminer.com, Nancy Ewert, “One Day In the Life, Nov.; WireTap Magazine, “Extra-Ordinary Iran,” Zoneil Maharaj, Nov.; Flavorpill, Ilya Tovbis, “One Day”, Oct.
2008 Print: Fuse, by Tirza Latimar, review; Media: BBC Persian, London; KPFA Against the Grain, interview; KPFA, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, interview; KALW, Your Call, interview; Bad at Sports, interview; Voice of America, interview
2007 Print: SF Station, Open to interpretation, Nirmala Nataraj; SF Arts Monthly, “Artists Use Found Materials to Explore Our Culture”, Sura Wood; SF Chronicle, “Arab Women in a New Light”, Jonathon Curiel; Media: KPFA, Against the Grain; KPFA, Voices of the Middle East; Comcast Cable TV, Inside City Limits, interview; ArtTalk, SFSU, interview
2006 Media: KQED, Spark!, A Few Good Stories; Voice of America, interview
2005 Print: San Francisco Chronicle, Jonathan Curiel, Represent; Media: KPFA, Voices from Middle East and North Africa, interview
2004 Print: Fuse Magazine, Laura J Kuo, Somewhere/ Elsewhere; SF Chronicle, Jonathan Curiel, Artists Use Bold Strokes to Penetrate Stereotypes, Bidoun 03, Laura J Kuo
Media: Universes in Universe, Contemporary Arts from the Islamic World
2003 Print: Art in America, Fast forward on the Persian Gulf, Grady Turner, November New York Times, Regime Change Takes Effect at a Persian Universe, Sharjah Enters the Eye of Storm, by Antonio Carver
Links
Fabrications: Curated project, publication, and performances at Southern Exposure; Theory of Survival, San Francisco
Only A Signal Shown, WEEK 5; video installations co-curated for Southern Exposure Gallery Working Conditions; co-curated for Southern Exposure, San Francisco
Time after Time, video installations, co-curated at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Between Worlds, At Arc Project Gallery, SF: July 9 - Aug 13, 2016
Ruins at AG Gallerie; May 13- June3; Tehran, Iran

Heroes Martyr Legends at The Human Spirit: Contemporary Figuration as an Expression of Hu- manity; at Richmond Art Center
Fabrications: Theory of Survival, curated installation at Southern Exposure; San Francisco What Remains, Rose Issa Projects, London, UK
/seconds, Sharjah Arts Foundations, UAE
True to Life?, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
Bulletin, at California Institute for Integral Studies, Theory of Survival Research Residency Short Stories, Dar Al-Funoon Gallery, Kuwait City
Ping Pong, US Embassy, Belgrade, Serbia
Resistance, solo exhibition at Luggage Store, Theory of Survival Productions, San Francisco Thresholds of Faith, at Manresa Gallery at St. Ignatius Church, USF, SF
The Open Moment, in collaboration with Invisible Venue, Emergency, Thoreau Center, San Fran- cisco
Passport 13, at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco
Light from the Middle East, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Future is Now, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco
Fax, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, curated by João Ribas, San Francisco
FREE, 2011-13*FREE, Public Commission, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF, C
Zendegi, Art and Life in Contemporary Iran, Beirut, Lebanon
A Dream of Eternity, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels
Heroes, Martyrs, Legends at Bastakia, United Arab Emirates
Depth of Surface, San Francisco State University, SF
One Day, A Collective Narrative of Tehran at Intersection for the Arts, co-organized with Ghazaleh Hedayat, San Francisco
Evocations, solo exhibition at Rose Issa Projects, London, United kingdom
Most Wanted, solo installation at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Global Eyes, Siggraph International Exhibition, San Diego, CA