Abbas Akhavan b. 1977, Tehran, Iran Lives and works in Montreal, Canada
Education
2006 Master of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK Mount Stuart House, Isle of Bute, Scotland
2019 They asked the fox, “Who is your witness?” He said, “My tail.”, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver script for an island, Fogo Island Gallery, Fogo Island, Canada cast for a folly, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
2018 Folly, Vie d’ange, Montreal, Canada Variations on a Landscape, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada recently, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
2017 Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany variations on a garden, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland They hit a tree with an axe, SALT Galata, Istanbul, Turkey variations on a garden, DRAF Studio, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
2016 Neighbours, with Marina Roy, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada Singing Softly When No One’s Around, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada KIDS CATS AND 1 DOG, FLORA ars+natura, Bogotá, Colombia
2015 variations on a garden, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada Study for a Curtain, The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada
2013 Study for a Glasshouse, Peel Art Gallery, Brampton, Canada Galeri Manâ, Istanbul, Turkey green house, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
2012 Study for a Garden, Delfina Foundation, London, UK Fire/Fire, with Marina Roy, Centre A and Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, Canada Beacon, The Darling Foundry, Montreal, Canada 2011 Hawkers, Images Festival, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada Correspondences, Modern Fuel, Kingston, Canada 2nd May Day, Convenience Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2010 Islands, The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2009 Sitings, AXENÉO7, Gatineau, Canada Neighbours, with Marina Roy, DAÏMÕN, Gatineau, Canada
2008 Neighbours, with Marina Roy, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada
2007 Correspondences, Stratagem Pacific Consulting, Vancouver, Canada Vacate, Storage Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 live among and turn together, Galerie La Box, Ensa Bourges, Bourges, France A Crack in Everything, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (online), Montreal, Canada Inventing Nature: Pflanzen in der Kunst, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
2020 A Few In Many Places, Protocinema, Parc Offsite, Montreal, Canada 9.5 Edition, Walk & Talk, São Miguel, Portugal
2019 Stone Witness, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, Canada The Shoreline Dilemma, Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, Canada Second Hand, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE Desertado. Algo que aconteceu pode acontecer novamente, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal I Will See It, When I Believe It, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE Unexplained Parade, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
2018 Hedges, Edges, Dirt, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA Enchanted Bodies/Fetish for Freedom, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy Beautiful world, where are you?, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK A Kiss Under the Tail, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, USA 13 Ways to Summon Ghosts, Gordon Smith Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada WHOSE LAND HAVE I LIT ON NOW?, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany Assemblages of Intimacy, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, the Netherlands But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Milano, Milan, Italy To clear the ground of weeds, Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA Belonging to a Place, Art Gallery at the Embassy of Canada, Washington, DC, USA
2017 Vacancies, Towards Gallery, Toronto, Canada Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, USA A Poet*hical Wager, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, USA Dream Variations, with Kristina Lee Podesva, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada STAGES, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada Propped, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada Belonging to a Place , Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, Canada Tamawuj, Sharjah Biennial 13, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2016 I stood before the source, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canada Making Nature: How we see animals, Wellcome Collection, London, UK Food, 13th Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial, Fellbach, Germany Répétition, Fondation Boghossian – Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2015 Regarding Spectatorship: Revolt and Distant, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany Home Works 7, Beirut Art Centre, Beirut, Lebanon In the Land of the Blind the One-Eyed Man Loses Sight, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, Germany Sobey Art Award, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada Art Eco – Art-ivism, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek Grimbergen, Grimbergen, Belgium Art In The Age Of ... Asymmetrical Warfare, Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Blind White, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada united nations extended – The Vienna Dialog, freiraum quartier21, Vienna, Austria Accented, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Common Grounds, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany For Machine Use Only, Schneiderei, Vienna, Austria
2014 L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada Furnishing Positions, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canada Burning Down the House, 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea Résistance, Manif d'art 7, Quebec City, Canada Utopias Constructed, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, Canada CounterIntelligence, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada The Politics of Food, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2013 FIAC Hors les murs, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France AGORA, 4th Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece Encyclonospace Iranica, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Ten Thousand Suns, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Traces of Life, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany united nations revisited, Galerie M, Berlin, Germany
2012 Material Information, Art Museums of Bergen Permanenten, Bergen, Norway Reflecting on Reflection, Galeri Manâ, Istanbul, Turkey Tools for Conviviality, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada Tactics for the here and now, Bucharest Biennale 5, Bucharest, Romania GOLD, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria Videoformes 2012, Clermont-Ferrand, France SO FAR SO GOOD, Extra Extra, Philadelphia, USA
2011 Iran via Video Current, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA Performa 11, New York, USA Seeing Is Believing, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany Changing Stakes: Contemporary Art Dialogues with Dubai, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada Snail Fever, The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Jour de Fête, LOOP Festival 2011, The Private Space Gallery, Barcelona, Spain About painting, Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin, Germany The State: Uppers and Downers, Traffic Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2010 On n’enchaîne pas les volcans, as part of Le Printemps de Septembre, Pavilion Projects, Montreal, Canada, at Point de Fuite, Toulouse, France A to B, MKG127, Toronto, Canada The Traveling Show, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 Speaking Truth to Reconciliation (a project in two parts), Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada How Soon Is Now, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2008 shrink-wrapped, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada When The Mood Strikes Us, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada Everything Should be Made as Simple as Possible, but not Simpler, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada Orientalism and Ephemera, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada; Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
2007 Long Distance: Between Location & Emotion, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE About Time, II, Kunsten - Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
2006 Strange Bedfellows, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Common Room, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, Canada RBC Canadian Painting Competition, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary; Musee d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Monographs
2018 Saira Ansari, ed., Abbas Akhavan, Skira, Milan, Italy Georgina Jackson, Variations on a Garden: Abbas Akhavan, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2017 Michael Buhrs and Verena Hein, eds., Abbas Akhavan, Distanz Verlag, Munich, Germany
Books and Exhibition Catalogues
2021 Signe Theill and Peter Winkels, ‘united nations revisted’, Von der Repräsentation zur Intervention, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, Germany
2018 Kitty Scott, Sally Tallant, and Sinéad McCarthy, eds., Beautiful World, Where Are You?, Art Books Publishing, London, UK
2016 Susanne Gaensheimer and Anna Goetz, FOOD – Ecologies of the Everyday: 13th Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany 2015 Defne Ayas, Natasha Hoare, and Mohammad Salemy, Art in the Age of ... Asymmetrical Warfare, Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2013 Agora: 4th Athens Biennale, Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece Marina Roy, Study for a Glasshouse, Peel Art Museum and Archives, Brampton, Canada
2012 Agnes Husslein-Arco and Thomas Zaunschirm, eds., Gold: Artists in Gold - Tradition and Today, Hirmer Verlag, Munich, Germany
2010 Shumon Basar, ‘Value Added’, Islands, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
2009 Kathleen Ritter, How Soon Is Now, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Ménagerie, AXENÉO7, Daimon Gallery, Gatineau, Canada J. J. Kegan McFadden, When the Mood Strikes Us, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2008 Orientalism & Ephemera, West Coast Line, Vancouver, Canada Alison Rajah, shrink-wrapped, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Jane Urquhart, Carte Blanche Vol. 2: Painting, Magenta Publishing for the Arts, Toronto, Canada Kika Thorne and Joni Murphy, Neighbours, VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver, Canada
2007 Haig Aivazian, Long Distance: Between Location & Emotion, The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates About Time, II, Kunsten - Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark Marina Roy, ‘Why Not Sneeze’, Vacate, Storage Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Kegan McFadden, ‘A Want For a Lack of Sense of Place’, Vacate, Storage Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2006 Anne Lesley Selcer, ‘One Use for Spectacle’, Strange Bedfellows, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Liz Park, ‘Exchanging Room’, Common Room, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, Canada
Magazines and Periodicals
2021 Aseman Sabet, ‘Parc Offsite: An Interview with Eli Kerr’, Espace Art Actuel, No. 128, Spring–Summer
2020 Shraddha Nair, ‘Protocinema discusses cycles of violence through hyper localised art interventions’, Stir World, 24 November Bob Dickinson, ‘Domestic Radicality’, Art Monthly, No. 438, July–August Eva Crocker, ‘Abbas Akhavan explores faith, theatre and architecture in script for an island on Fogo’, Visual Art News, 3 April
2019 Helena Wadsley, ‘Abbas Akhavan’, Galleries West, 27 November Josef Jacobson, ‘Nanaimo Art Gallery presents geological-themed exhibition’, Nanaimo News Bulletin, 26 November Anne Lesley Selcer, ‘Night falls slowly inside a photograph’, Open Space, 9 October Jyoti Kalsi, ‘When materials speak their mind’, Gulf News, 28 September Giovanni Aloi, ‘Abbas Akhavan: Fatigues’, Antennae, Issue 49, Autumn Sara Raza, ‘But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Acquiring Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa’, C Magazine 143, Autumn Marie-Ève Charron, ‘Alan Belcher accompagne les derniers jours de Vie d’Ange’, Le Devoir, 3 August Kegan McFadden, ‘Abbas Akhavan’, Canadian Art, 23 July Amrita Singh, ‘Art Jameel’s Newest Initiative: The Second Hand Art Collection’, About Her, 21 July ‘Dubai’s “Second Hand” art show explores morphing materials’, Arab News, 15 July Oliver Basciano, ‘The art of walking (and talking)’, Art Review, 12 July Maddie Klett, ‘Abbas Akhavan: cast for a folly’, The Brooklyn Rail, July–August Gareth Harris, ‘From plastic waste to indigenous heritage, old and new biennials tap into contemporary concerns and issues’, The Art Newspaper, 28 June Naz Cuguoğlu, ‘Theater of False Ruins: Interview with Abbas Akhavan’, Art Asia Pacific, 26 June ‘Toronto Biennial of Art Announces Featured Artists for Inaugural Event’, Broadway World, 21 June Maximilíano Durón, ‘Here’s the Artist List for the First Toronto Biennial’, Art News, 20 June Sarah Hotchkiss, ‘At the Wattis, the Aftermath of an Invasion and a Kaleidoscope of Black Experience’, KQED, 4 June Sara Burkhardt, ‘Gärten in Kunst, Design und Architektur’, Kunst und Unterricht, No. 433/434, June Deena Chalabi, ‘Monuments, Placeholders, Ghosts’, Open Space, 23 May Judith Elisabeth Weiss, ‘Konstruktionen und Dekonstruktionen des Natürlichen’, Kunstforum International, Vol. 258, January–February Judith Elisabeth Weiss, ‘Guerilla-Gardening, Paradiesgärtlein und planetarischer Garten’, Kunstforum International, Vol. 258, January–February Chris Andrews, ‘Folly’, Peripheral Review, 17 January
2018 Jayne Wilkinson, ‘A Year in Contradictions’, Canadian Art, 26 December Jesi Khadivi, ‘But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise’, Border Crossings, Issue 148 ‘The Angel Is in the Details’, Border Crossings, Issue 148 Jean-Michel Quirion, ‘Abbas Akhavan, Folly’, Espace Art Actuel, 16 November Mallory Noe-Payne, ‘“Hedges, Edges, Dirt” Now on Display at Richmond’s ICA’, Radio IQ, 6 November Andrew Ringle, ‘New ICA exhibits capture essence of fall, engage art lovers’, The Commonwealth Times, 23 October Anna Kovler, ‘Abbas Akhavan’s “Folly” at Vie D’ange’, Arsenal Contemporary, 29 September Yaniya Lee, ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You?’, Canadian Art, 18 July Tom Emery, ‘10th Liverpool Biennial: “Beautiful world, where are you?”’, Frieze, 17 July John Nyman, ‘Circulations of Intimacy’, Peripheral Review, 27 January
2017 Ben Eastham, ‘Dublin Gallery Weekend’, art agenda, 30 November Gemma Tipton, ‘Critic’s Guide: Dublin’, Frieze, 24 November Rosemary Westwood, ‘The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp’, Canadian Art, 23 November Aidan Dunne, ‘A show that looks at the secret life of plants from Babylon’, The Irish Times, 14 November Martin Blättner, ‘Abbas Akhavan’, Kunstforum International, Vol. 250, October–November Mitch Speed, ‘Performance Art Blows Open the Prairies, in “Stages”’, MOMUS, 14 September Kaya Genç, ‘With site-specific interventions, SALT Galata explores its potentialities’, Daily Sabah, 2 June Nicholas Forrest, ‘Q and A: Christine Tohmé on the Superb Sharjah Biennial 13’, Blouin Artinfo, 17 April Mohammad Salemy, ‘Making waves towards post-art: Act I of Sharjah Biennial 13’, Ocula, 15 April Kat Herriman, ‘Modernism, Voyeurism, and a Sentient Parrot: Highlights from Dubai Art Week 2017’, VICE Creators, 10 April Claire Wilson, ‘Between hospitality and hostility: Iranian artist Abbas Akhavan at DRAF Studio London’, Art Radar Journal, 14 February Chris Fite-Wassilak, ‘Dispatches: London’, Frieze, 9 February Marina Fathalla, ‘A (future) archive of a since disappeared land’, Kapsula, January
2016 Justin Hopper, ‘Hello, World: Making Nature at Wellcome Collection’, The Learned Pig, 20 December Oliver Moody, ‘Foxed! The weird world of zoology bares its teeth’, The Times, 12 December Adam Sherwin, ‘Taxidermy artist scatters dead animals at Wellcome Collection’, iNews, 30 November Ismail Fayed, ‘But a Storm is Blowing: Art contending with memory and tragic contexts’, Mada Masr, 25 October Bansie Vasvani, ‘A Survey of Art from the Middle East and North Africa Puts Geometry Before Politics’, Hyperallergic, 19 September Emma Holter, ‘Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African Art at the Guggenheim Museum’, Art Versed, 13 September Georgina Jackson, ‘The Body in Ruins: Abbas Akhavan’s Study for a Monument’, Afterall Journal 42, Autumn–Winter Carmela Thiele, ‘FOOD – Ökologien des Alltags’, Kunstforum International, Vol. 241, August Holland Cotter, ‘The Guggenheim Is Going Global. Kind Of.’, The New York Times, 25 August Caroline Roux, ‘But a Storm is Blowing in from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa’, The Telegraph, 13 August Yasaman Alipour, ‘But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa’, The Brooklyn Rail, 11 July Lily Tekseng, ‘“But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise”: Guggenheim UBS Map Middle East and North Africa’, Art Radar Journal, 26 June Andy Battaglia, ‘Exhibitions: Anxiety on show at the NY Guggenheim's new Mena exhibition’, The National, 23 June Rahel Aima, ‘Paradise Lost: Middle Eastern Art at the Guggenheim’, Art in America, 21 June John Haber, ‘War with No End’, Haber Arts, 29 April Julia Roberge Van Der Donckt, ‘Toward an Anti-Speciesist Aesthetic?’, Esse 87, Spring–Summer Bill Clarke, ‘Abbas Akhavan’, Modern Painters, January Gabrielle Moser, ‘Every Artwork Is a Trap’, Canadian Art, Winter
2015 Oliver Basciano, ‘Abbas Akhavan’, ArtReview, October Marina Iordan, ‘It’s a Kind of a Domesticated Wilderness: An Interview with Abbas Akhavan’, Jadaliyya, 14 April Martin Blättner, ‘Common Grounds’, Kunstforum International, Vol. 232, April–May Rachel Bennett, ‘Instigating Methodologies’, Canvas Magazine, March–April Bryne McLaughlin, ‘Build and They Will Come: Caroline Andrieux and the making of an art scene’, Canadian Art, Spring Gina Badger, ‘Unsettled Objects (The Alchemy of Dispossession and Display)’, Switch On, The Power Plant, 4 February Murtaza Vali, ‘La Biennale de Montréal’, Artforum, February
2014 Bryne McLaughlin, ‘Manif d’Art Critiques Capitalism—But To What End?’, Canadian Art, 5 June Gabrielle Moser, ‘Critics' Picks: CounterIntelligence’, Artforum, 24 January
2013 Amy Fung, ‘Abbas Akhavan’, Art Papers, May–June Anthony Downey, ‘Domestic Nature: Abbas Akhavan in Conversation with Anthony Downey’, Ibraaz, 29 January Justin Jaeckle, ‘Abbas Akhavan: Study for a Garden’, Art Review, January–February Martine Rouleau, ‘Abbas Akhvana, Study for a Garden’, Esse 77, Winter 2012 Michael Hampton, ‘Human Nature’, Art Monthly UK 362, December–January Mohammad Salemy, ‘Architecture and De-measurement in Abbas Akhavan’s work’, Arte East, Winter Mark Rappolt, ‘Abbas Akhavan in Conversation with Mark Rappolt’, Delfina Foundation, 7 November Elias Redstone, ‘London Underground, Cultural Exchanges’, The New York Times, 26 October Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, ‘Bucharest Biennale 5’, Artforum, October Anja Bock, ‘Abbas Akhavan: Beacon, Darling Foundry’, Art Papers, October Ashley McLellan, ‘Tools for Conviviality: Social Works’, Canadian Art, 2 August Fran Schechter, ‘Tools Rules’, Now Magazine, 19 July Murray Whyte, ‘Tools For Conviviality at the Power Plant’, The Star, 17 July Sholem Krishtalka, ‘Convivial Confrontations’, The Toronto Standard, 9 July Hadani Ditmars, ‘Abbas Akhavan: Home Fronts’, Canadian Art, Spring Joni Murphy, ‘Abbas Akhavan: Up, Down and In-between’, Canadian Art, 10 May
2011 Cathryn Drake, ‘Playing with Fire’, Artforum, 12 December Dina Ibrahim, ‘Abbas Akhavan’, Art Asia Pacific, 14 June Robert Labossiere, ‘An Interview with Abbas Akhavan’, Reading Art, 24 May Cathryn Drake, ‘Back to the Future’, Artforum, 22 March Hadani Ditmars, ‘Abbas Akhavan: Home Fronts’, Canadian Art, Spring
2010 Liana Schmidt, ‘Abbas Akhavan Studio Visit’, Mercer Union, 24 November Sara Mameni, ‘Foiled Islands: Abbas Akhavan at Third Line Gallery, Dubai’, Fuse Magazine, September Jen Hutton, ‘Critic’s Picks’, Artforum, July Alia Al-Sabi, ‘Preview: Abbas Akhavan: MAPPING’, Bidoun 20, Spring Jyoti Kalsi, ‘Entwined Worlds’, Gulf News, 21 May John Gravois, ‘In Reduced Circumstances’, The National, 12 May Charlie Neyra, ‘The Great Wall of Dubai’, Khaleej Times, 7 May Kelly Nosari, ‘Abbas Akhavan: Islands’, Daily Serving, 5 May Nyree Barret, ‘Dubai’s Gilded Cartographer’, Time Out Dubai, May May Barber, ‘Islands’, Panoptikon, May Randy Lee Cutler, ‘Truth and Consequences’, Fuse Magazine, Vol. 33, No. 1
2009 Kathleen Ritter, ‘VIVO Media Arts Centre’, Esse 65, Winter Kathryn Schmidt, ‘Immigration & Domination, For the Birds’, Intermedias Review, March
2008 Sigrid Dahle, ‘When the Mood Strikes Us’, Borders Crossings 108, December Nicholas Brown, ‘Out there: Abbas Akhavan visited by Nicholas Brown’, Art Gallery of York University, 17 September Randy Lee Cutler, ‘Orientalism: just another day in paradise’, Fuse Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 4 Aaron Peck, ‘Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, but Not Simpler, Canadian Art, Fall Miriam Jordan and Julian Jason Haladyn, ‘Orientalism & Ephemera’, C Magazine 99, Autumn Clint Burnham, ‘Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, but Not Simpler’, Artforum, 27 June Kristina Lee Podesva, ‘The Molotov Pigeon: Abbas Akhavan’s Correspondences’, Bidoun 14, Spring–Summer Alison Rajah, ‘Thwarting the Royal Road’, Fillip, Vol. 3, No. 2
Published Writing by the Artist 2011 Abbas Akhavan, ‘Makeshift Objects’, Zamân 4, Winter
2010 Abbas Akhavan, ‘Artist Project: what is above is as that which is below…’, C Magazine 108, Winter
2007 Abbas Akhavan and Marina Roy, eds., Helen’s Cookbook, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Residencies
2019 Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island, Canada Walk&Talk, São Miguel, Portugal Capp Street Project, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
2017 Atelier Calder, Saché, France
2016 Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island, Canada
2015 FLORA ars+natura, Bogotá, Colombia
2013 Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island, Canada Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
2012 Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2011 The Watermill Center, New York, USA Delfina Foundation, Dubai, UAE Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada
2010 Fundación Marcelino Botin, with Mona Hatoum, Santander, Spain Point de Fuite, Toulouse, France
2009 The Apartment Gallery, Vancouver, Canada AXENÉO7/DAÏMÕN, Gatineau, Canada
2008 VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada
2007 Stratagem Pacific Consulting, Vancouver, Canada
Awards
2016 Fellbach Triennial Award
2015 Sobey Art Award, Sobey Art Foundation
2014 The Abraaj Group Art Prize
2012 Berlin Art Prize – Jubilee Foundation 1848/1948, Berlin, Germany Artist Prize Finalist, Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts, Toronto, Canada
2011 Art Partners in Creative Development, Vancouver, Canada