TARAVAT TALEPASAND

BORN 1979, Eugene, OR

EDUCATION 2006 Art Institute, San Francisco, CA MFA, Painting 2001 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI BFA, Illustration 2000 Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece Painting, Printmaking

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 “Not an Arab Spring,” Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL 2012 “Pathe!” Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011 “The Corrupt Minority,” Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA 2010 “Taravat Talepasand: Drawings,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2009 “Situation Critical,” Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA “Hampah: Ala Ebtekar & Taravat Talepasand,” Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2008 “To the Martyrs!” Plane Space, New York, NY 2007 “Seeya and Sefeed,” Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2006 “Taravat Talepasand," Vernissage, , San Francisco, CA 2002 “New Works, From Greece,” Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 “In the Fields of Empty Days: Kings, Heroes, Demons and Saints in Iranian Art,” LACMA, Los Angeles, CA 2016 Terry Powers, Taravat Talepasand, John Defazio, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Vinyl Icons: Persian Pop and Turkish Psychedelia,” Vane Gallery, New Castle, UK ARCO Madrid, Spain 2015 “Bootleg Show,” Printed Matter, Inc., New York, NY Passport 2015, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA Volta11, Markthalle, Basel, Switzerland Miami Art Fair, New York, New York “Amen,” Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA Volta NY, New York, New York Azadi va Edalat, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA 2014 “Theory of Survival: Fabrications,” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA 2013 “New...Now...Next...” Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2012 “Tessellation Make Up,” Galerie Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey “Nu Body,” Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Belles Comme Le Jour,” Galerie Une, Zurich, Switzerland “FAX,” San Francisco Arts Commision Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011 PULSE Miami, FL “I am who I am: The Portrait Reconsidered,” Steven Zevitas, Boston, MA “Sea Change II: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition,” Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA “Sea Change I: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition,” Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA “Fabrications,” Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA 2010 “2010 Biennial,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA “I RAN Home (In America),” CoCA Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA “ - New York,” Leila Taghinia-Milano Heller (LTMH) Gallery, New York, NY “Chahar Ghesmat: Iranian Women Create,” Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT (curated by Afarin Rahmanifar and Elizabeth Peterson) 2009 “I Want You to Want Me,” Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA “Bad Moon Rising 4,” Galerie Sans Titre, Brussels, Belgium (curated by Jan Van Woensel) “Femme on Femme,” Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA (curated by Cari Marshall) 2008 “Sexy Time: A Group Effort,” Morgan Lehman, New York, NY “East of the West,” SomArts, San Francisco, CA (curated by Taraneh Hemami & Anuradha Vikram) 2007 “The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection,” , San Francisco, CA “Three on the Tree,” Plane Space, New York, NY “Selections from New American Paintings: The MFA Annual, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA “GRAPHIC: New Bay Area Drawing,” di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA 2006 “Cream from the Top,” Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA 2005 Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Murphy Cadogan Award, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Obsessive Patterns,” Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Ephemeral,” Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003 “2003 Oregon Biennial,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 2001 “New Paintings,”Blackfish Gallery, Portland OR 2000 “Illustrations,” Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

HONORS & AWARDS 2011 Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant 2010 Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Murphy Fellow at San Francisco Art Institute 2006 Irene Pijoan Memorial Painting Award 2005-06 New American Paintings: MFA Annual Competition 2005 Murphy Cadogan Scholarship 2004-05 San Francisco Art Institute, Merit Scholarship 2000 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship 1999-01 Rhode Island School of Design Merit Scholarship 1999 Guilford Handcraft

SELECTED COLLECTIONS Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA CoCA Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

FILM & DOCUMENTARY Dr. Octagon (Kool Keith), Dan The Automator, DJ Qbert Album Producer and Art Director Pearls on the Ocean Floor by Robert Adanto Voices of America, Persian News Network interview by Monaliza Noormohammadi

LECTURES 2016 Guest Lecturer, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA Notes from the Studio, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA Guest Lecturer, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 2015 Visiting Artist, Berkeley University, CA Visiting Artist, Stanford University, CA Guest Critic, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Visiting Artist, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA 2014 Visiting Artist for ‘Notes from the Studio,’ California College of Art, San Francisco, CA 2013 Visiting Artist, Stanford University, CA 2011 Guest Critic, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 2010 Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellow at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Artist Talk, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Artist Talk, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA CoCA Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA 2009 Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 2007 Visiting Artist, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA 2006 Visiting Artist, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2016 Desmarais, Charles, “In Case You Missed It…” San Francisco Chronicle, October 24 2015 “San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, Passport 2015: Japantown,” October 21, www.sfartenthusiast.com Pereira, Lorenzo, “Volta 11 in Basel,” June, www.widewalls.ch ARTBAHRAIN, “Volta 11,” May 31, www.artbahrain.org San Francisco Chronicle, “Bay Area Arts and Entertainment Picks,” May 20, San Francisco Chronicle Tedford Harrison, Matthew, “Mexican Collective CAMINO Loves the Baby Jesus,” May 19, www.sfweekly.com Levine, Brett, “Taravat Talepasand Toys with Our Fears, at Peta Pictoris in Birmingham,” May 15, burnaway.org Helander, Bruce, “DUTCH TREAT,” May 8, The Huffington Post Lampe, Lilly, “An Artist’s Take on Iranian Identity, Detailed and Filled with Drugs,” May 8, Hyperallergic Amirkhani, Jordan, “Taravat Talepasand: Not an Arab Spring at Beta Pictoris Gallery,” May 6, dailyserving.com Ogle, Patrick, “Art Miami Heads North,” May 6, www.mapanare.us McDaniel, Mandy, “Iranian-American’s Art Exhibit Opening at Beta Pictoris,” April 16, www.artsbham.com 2014 Carlson, Michelle, “Iranian Dissent at Southern Exposure,” September 17, www.kqed.com SFAQ, “First of Fall-San Francisco,” September, www.sfaq.us Xiao, An, “An Iranian, American Artist Revisits Images from the 1979 Revolution,” October 21, Hyperallergic Alangoo, “Theory of Survival: Fabrications, A Project by Taraneh Hemami,” October 16, alangoo.wordpress.com 2013 Carlson, Michelle, “Body Politic,” Hyphen Magazine, The Sex Issue No. 27, p.40-45 2012 ADMIN, ‘Taravat Talepasand Pethetique,” www.sfartenthusiast.com, May 24 2011 Sarrah Zadeh, "Taravat Talepasand," Zan Magazine, NOV/DEC, Issue No. 1, p.61-63 Swanhuyser, Hiya, "Ten Years, Part Deux," SF Weekly (Night & Day section), July 13, p. 17 Cate McQuaid, "Remaking History by Themselves," Boston Globe, May 11 Gabrielle Selz, "The Outsider Insider: New Work by Taravat Talepasand," Huffington Post Arts, May 25 Rebecca Goldschmidt, “Big Things Ahead: Taravat,” May 5, www.bigbigbigthings.com Sanaz Khalaj-Santos, “The Corrupt Minority,” July, www.persianesque.com "Exhibition Spotlight: Fabrications at Marx & Zavattero," The Huffington Post, February 4 Wood, Sura, “Coming soon to an art gallery near you,” Bay Area Reporter, January 13, p. 23 Bowers, Keith, “The Horror, The Humor,” SF Weekly January 5, p. 18 2010 Deutsche Bank Art Works, “Art as Lifesaver 2010 California Biennial,” November, www.db-artmag.com Rabe, John, “Taravat Talepasand’s Revolution,” November 89.3 KPCC, Southern California Public Radio, scpr.org Chang, Richard, “O.C. Museum of Art Unveils Its New Biennial,” November, www.ocregister.com Moeini, Noushin, “Pearls on the Ocean Floor,” Javanan Magazine, June, Issue No. 1207, p. 34 Moeini, Noushin, “Taravat Talepasand’s images: Crossing Cultures in search of identity,” Javanan International Weekly Magazine, April, p. 36 Miller D., Adam, “Taravat Talepasand,” www.beautifuldecay.com, June 15 Razo, Jennifer, “Exquisite Corpse with Taravat Talepasand,” Beautiful/Decay, June, Book: 4 Mary Anne, “Situation Critical,” artpractical.com February, The Painting Issue #8 Eisenhart, Mary, “Don’t Miss: Situation Critical,” San Francisco Chronicle (96 Hours section), January 7, p. 13 Sanaz Khalaj-Santos, "Pushing Boundaries," www.persianesque.com 2009 Huston, Johnny Ray, “Weekly Picks,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 16, p. 16-17 Granade, Rives, “Talepasand’s ‘Situation Critical,’” examiner.com, January Melendez, Franklin, “Behind the veil,” San Francisco Magazine, December, p. 37, 40 Harouni, Shadi, “Ala Ebtekar & Taravat Talepasand: Hampah,” The Mag LA, June, p. 38 Selz, Gabrielle, “Taravat Talepasand: In Her Own Image,” Art Papers, March/April, p. 22-25 Amirsadeghi, Hossein (Editor), Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art, Globe Publishing Limited, , U.K. 2008 Zevitas, Steven T. (Editor), New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, Boston MA; Number 79, Dec. 2008/Jan. 2009, p. 152-155 Turner, Cherie Louise, “Young at Art: 15 Artists Under 35,” art ltd., May, p. 59 Junker, Howard (Editor), “That Fateful, Faithful Cup of Wine”, ZYZZYVA, Spring, Vol. XXIV No. 1, p.54 Goodin, Analisa, “Taravat Talepasand,” Alarm, Winter, p. 76-79 2007 Van Proyen, Mark, “Taravat Talepasand at Heather Marx,” Art in America, December, p. 169 Che, Julia, “Taravat Talepasand: You Liberal Iranian,” Metro.Pop, Issue 32, p. 57 Zevitas, Steven T. (Editor), New American Paintings: Special Edition, The Open Studios Press, Boston MA; Number 70, July, p. 188 & back cover Weiss, Nina, “Golden Girl: Taravat Talepasand Shines on the Outside,” 7x7 Magazine, May, p. 71 Ross, Michael, “Taravat Talepasand @ Heather Marx Gallery,” whitehotmagazine.com, May, WM Issue #3 Nataraj, Nirmala, “Iran So Far Away,” SF Weekly (Night & Day section), May 2, p. 23 Melendez, Franklin, “Taravat Talepasand: The Golden Road,” Planet, Spring Issue 15, p. 017 2006 Binshtock, Avital, “Art School Confidential,” Lifescapes, November, p. 64 Turner, Cherie Louise, “‘Cream’ at Arts Benicia,” Artweek, October, p. 25 Meeker, Cheryl, “SFAI MFA Graduation Exhibition,” stretcher.org, West Coast, May 27 Van Proyen, Mark, Catalogue Essay, MFA Graduate Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 2005 Zevitas, Steven T. (Editor), New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, Boston MA; New American Paintings, MFA Annual Catalogue 2003 2003 Oregon Biennial Catalogue, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Speer, Richard, “Bi-Furious,” Willamette Week, July 2 “A Question of Commitment,” The Oregonian, June 29 “Oregon Biennial Sticks to Traditional Fields, Omits Web-based Work,” The Oregonian, March 12 “2003 Oregon Biennial,” Portland Mercury 2002 New American Painters, Pacific Coast Edition No. 43