Shahpour Pouyan 323 W. 39th Street, Studio 401 New York, NY 10018 Born: Esfahan, Iran 1979 BIENNALES 2018 “LB01,” Lahore Biennial, Lahore, Pakistan 2017 “Te Silk Road and World’s Civilizations,” Beijing Biennale, China 2016 “For An Image, Faster Tan Light,” Yinchuan Biennale, Yinchuan, China 2014 “Whorled Explorations,” Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi Island, India 2013 Mykonos Biennale, Mykonos Island, Greece

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 “Untitled,” Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

2018 “Wūshuǐ,” Copperfeld Gallery, London, U.K. 2018 “Te Incarnation of the Body Politic,” Te Armory Show, New York City. 2017 “My Place Is the Placeless,” Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, U.A.E. 2017 “We Owe Tis Considerable Land to the Horizon Line,” Nathalie Obadiah Gallery, Paris, France 2015 “History Travels at Different Speeds”, Copperfield Gallery, London, U.K. 2014 “PTSD,” Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, U.A.E. 2011 “Full Metal Jacket,” Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, U.A.E. 2010 “Te Hooves,” Sixty Six Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran 2009 “XVA Gallery,” Bastakia, Dubai, U.A.E.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 “Speaking Power to (Post) Truth,” Jane Lombard Gallery, New York City 2018 “Punk Orientalism,” MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada. Curated by Sara Raza 2018 “White Anxieties,” WhiteBox, New York City. Curated by Raul Zamudio and Juan Puntes 2018 “Only the Morning Bird Treasures the Flower Garden,” REDCAT, Los Angles 2018 “In the Fields of Empty Days,” Los Angeles County Museum 2018 “Te New Minimalists, “Abrons Art Center, New York City 2017 “Jameel Prize,” A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan 2017 “Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 2017 “Iranian Voice,” British Museum, London, U.K. 2017 “Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians,” Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada 2017 “Past Meets Present,” Anna Laudel Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey 2016 “Home Land Security,” Fort Winfield Scott, San Francisco 2016 “Jameel Prize,” Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey 2016 “Memory and Continuity”, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey 2016 “Recentering Modernism,” Art Basel, Hong Kong 2016 “But Still Tomorrow Builds into My Face,” Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, U.A.E. 2016 “Global/Local,” Grey Art Gallery New York University, New York City 2015 “Jacob's Ladder,” Untitled Art Fair, Miamai Beach, Florida 2014 “Young Collectors,” Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey 2014 “Te Tower of Babel Project,” Deuxpiece, Basel, Switzerland 2013 “Traces”, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, U.A.E. 2013 “For Which it Stands,”Lodge Gallery, New York City 2013 “Chambres à Part VII: Dark to Light,” Tower of London, London, U.K. 2013 “ArtCycle Discovers: MFA Finalists,” Gallery Brooklyn, New York City 2013 “Nearly Neutral,” Barbara Walters Gallery, Bronxville, NY 2012 “Dialoge:Shahpour Pouyan + Marwan Sahmarani, “Art Basel, Volta8, Basel, Switzerland 2012 “Curate NEW YORK CITY. C Project,” Rush Arts Gallery, New York City 2012 “Centrefold 8,” Zabludowicz Colllection,” Art Projects, London, U.K. 2012 “Domination,Hegemo,” New York City and Te Panopticon, Traffic, Dubai, U.A.E. 2011 2012 “Artbeat,” Istanbul, Center Lutif Kirdar, Istanbul, Turkey 2011 State Gallery of Fine Arts, Hyderabad, India 2010 “Performance Box Curatorship,” Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran 2010 “Te Emerging Iranian Scene,”Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon 2010 “Total Arts,” Te Courtyard, Dubai, U.A.E 2010 “Sous Le Radar,”JTM Gallery, Paris, France 2009 “Urban Jealousy,” First International Roaming Biennial of Tehran and Magacin MKM, Belgrade, Serbia 2008 Tird International Digital Miniprinte Exhibition, Le Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle, Ottawa, Canada PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 2018 Te Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 2017 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York City 2017 British Museum, London, U.K. 2016 Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York City 2015 Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art, New York City 2003 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS Fellowship at Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbertide, Italy, 2016

Shortlisted for Victoria and Albert Museum prize for Islamic Art Prize, London, 2015

Residency program, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York City, 2014

Fellowship at Pegasus Art Foundation, State Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India, 2011

Grant, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts awarded for residency program, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France, 2007

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (*Reviews) *Anna Wallace-Tompson, “Shahpour Pouyan at Copperfeld, London,” Art Review, December, 2018 *Rahel Aima, “Shahpour Pouyan: My Place is the Placeless,” Art Review Asia, Spring, 2018 *Jason Farago, “Art Basel Miami Beach, Post-Irma, Is Still Swinging,” Te New York Times, December 7, 2017 *Rebecca Close, “ ‘My Place is the Placeless’: Iranian artist Shahpour Pouyan at Lawrie Shabibi,” Dubai,” Art Radar, December 12, 2018 *”A New Body of Work by Shahpour Pouyan", Islamic Arts Magazine, March 7 2018 *Kelly Crow, “High Tech Meets High Art at the Armory Show,” Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2018 *Nick Leech, “ ‘My Place is the Placeless’: Shahpour Pouyan at Lawrie Shabibi,” Te National, December 12, 2017 *Jyoti Kalsi, “Rejecting labels of identity,” Gulf News, December 20, 2017 *Elizabeth Sutton, “expose pour la première fois à Paris,” IDBOOX, March 2017 *Elisabeth Guerin, “Iran revisité,” Madame Figaro, April 2017 *Anna Sansom, “We Owe Tis Considerable Land to the Horizon Line,” Damn Magazine, May 2017 *Efi Michalarou, “New Comers: Shahpour Pouyan,” Dream Idea Machine, March 2017 *Gabrielle Gopinath, “Home Land Security at Te Presidio,” SFAQ, December 2016 *Amei Wallach, “Awaiting Armageddon,” Art in America, November 2016 *Kevin Jones, "Tehran Days," Art Asia Pacific, Sep/Oct 2016 *Anna Wallace-Tompson, "Global/Local", Artforum,com March 18, 2016 *Livia Alexander, "Tracing tradition in a survey of six Iranian artists," Hyperallergic, March 18, 2016 *Michael Fitzgerald, "Global/Local: 1960 – 2015: Six Artists from Iran," Wall Street Journal, February 2, 2015 *Holland Cotter, "Six Artists from Iran," New York Times, January 2015 *Rob Sharp, "How the Global Refugee Crisis Is Impacting and Influencing Artists," Artsy, November 5, 2015 *Dale Berning Sawa, "Unfamiliar Territory: Artists Navigate the Complexities of the Immigrant Crisis," Te Guardian, September 28, 2014 *Amy Kisch, "Climbing Jacob's Ladder,” Fine Art Magazine, December 2014 *Kevin Jones, ''PTSD Shapour Pouyan,'' FlashArtOnLine.com, June 4, 2014 *Bharti Lalwani ''PTSD Review,'' Harper Bazaar, May 1, 2014 *Anna Seaman, ''Shahpour Pouyan at LS,” Te National, March 31, 2013 *Jyoti Kalsi,"Traces of Humans," Gulf News, July 4, 2013 *Danna Lorch,"A Scientist and A Philosopher,” Danna Writes, July 2, 2013 *Shahrouz Nazari,"Drown without water,” Tandis Magazine, September 14, 2013 *Paddy Johnson,"ArtCycle Discovers Prize," Art F City, January 30, 2013 *Ali Bakhtiari, "Path and Glory," Contemporary Practices, November 1, 2011 *Iyoti Kalsi"Allegory of Authority," Gulf News, May 13, 2011 *Charlie R Neyra, "Full Metal Jacket,” Khaleej Times. April 29,2011 *Jason Rezaian, "Inside Iran: Te Art of Resistance," Global Post, April 19, 2011 *Chandana Khan, "An Art Bonanza," Deccan Chronicle, March 7, 2011

*Ingo Arend, "It’s All About Change," Nafas Art Magazine, February 2011 *Soheila Niakan, “Towers Come Behind You,” Hamshahri, May 25, 2009 *Navid Farzi, “Interview with Shahpour Pouyan,” Roozan, May 11, 2009 *Muhammad Yusuf, “Talking Towers,” Te Gulf Today, February 14, 2009 *Raziqueh Hussain, “Power and Glory,” Khaleej Times, February 20, 2009

PUBLIC APPEARANCES Saskatchewan Weekend, CBC, Regina, 2018 C-Arts TV, PBS, New York City, 2017 “Profile: Shahpour Pouyan,” BBC, May 2015 “Tamasha Weekly Art Journal,” March 2014 Radio Report and Conversation between Murtaza Vali and Lee Xie, In Book of Lee Program, March 31, 2014

EDUCATION 2012 MFA, New Forms and Integrated Practices, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 2007 MFA, Painting, Tehran University of Art, Iran 2005 Neoplatonism Studies, Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Tehran 2004 BFA, Painting, Art University, Tehran, Iran 2000 Math and Physics Diploma, Elmieh School of Tehran, Iran