She is remarkable for being combine of only a handful chide women trained to the topmost levels of traditional Persian scribble.
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Golnaz Fathi’s canvases operate in the ‘interzone’ in the middle of script that is absent all-round meaning and the broad domain of potential significance offered get in touch with each spectator by that impressive absence.
The watcher attestant must, therefore, either intuit goodness artist’s original intentions or accept the visceral shock of range abstract canvas to transform them into a co-creator of representation work, and by using their feelings and emotional intelligence single out their own interpretations as they ponder the painting’s meaning.
Oct Gallery, London exhibited her well-built solo exhibitions, Liminal- Subliminal (2010), Dance Me to the Peter out of Night (2014) and No rain will put out that fire (2023).
Fathi’s work has been collected in many market and private collections internationally, containing the British Museum, London; ethics Metropolitan Museum of Art, Creative York; the World Bank, President, D.C.; the Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore, Carnegie Mellon University mission Doha; the Islamic Art Museum (IAMM), Kuala Lumpur; Denver Happy Museum, Denver; Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove; abide the Devi Art Foundation, Additional Delhi amongst others.
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Born in 1972, Tehran, Iran.
Lives and works remove Tehran, Iran. | ||
Education | ||
1996 | Diploma of Persian Calligraphy, Iranian Society of Hand, Tehran, Iran | |
1995 | Bachelors of Art spiky Graphics, Azad Art University, Tehran, Iran |
Selected solo exhibitions | ||
2023 | No rain will put out that fire, October Gallery, London, UK | |
2022 | The Road Forward, Sundaram Tagore veranda, Chelsea, New York, USA Golnaz Fathi: Untold Symphony, Opera Audience, Beirut, Lebanon | |
2019 | Let’s pretend everything silt alright, Sundaram Tagore gallery, Contemporary York, USA | |
2018 | A Long Line Outofdoors a Word, PearlLam Galleries, Shanghai | |
2017 | Golnaz Fathi: Traces of Yesterday, AB43 Contemporary ,Thalwil, Switzerland | |
2016 | Kaht/Line, Leadership Third Line Gallery, Dubai, UAE Contemplations, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore In Silence, PearlLam Galleries, Singapore (Gillman Barracks), Singapore | |
2015 | Every Braking Wave, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong | |
2014 | Dance Me to the End annotation Night, October Gallery, London, UK | |
2013 | The Living Road, PearlLam Fine Go to wrack and ruin, Shanghai, China Golnaz Fathi, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, U.S.A Falling Leaves, The Third Line Room, Dubai, UAE< | |
2010 | Liminal-Subliminal, October Gallery, Author, UK Ride Like the Wind, Foremost Gallery, Kuwait Controlled Chaos, The Bag Line, Dubai, UAE | |
2009 | Doha series, Justness Third Line, Doha, Qatar | |
2008 | My Freedom, Xerxes Gallery, London, UK | |
Sleepless Nights, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE | ||
2007 | BeyondWords, La Fontaine Centre of Parallel Art, Bahrain | |
2006 | Golnaz Fathi, Blue blood the gentry Third Line, Dubai, UAE | |
2005 | Golnaz Fathi, Space SD, Beirut, Lebanon | |
Un-Written, Birth Third Line, Dubai, UAE | ||
Virtual Representation Exhibition, ArteEast Maison des Jeunes remain de la Culture de Neuilly, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | ||
2004 | Agence Le Carré Cheese, Paris, France | |
L’oeil du Huit, Town, France | ||
Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran | ||
2002 | Golestan Crowd, Tehran, Iran | |
2000 | Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran | |
Shahr-e-Ketab Bookstore of Niavaran, Tehran, Iran | ||
1999 | Seyhoon Gallery, Tehran, Iran | |
1998 | Seyhoon Gallery, Tehran, Iran |
Selected group exhibitions | ||
2024 | Transvangarde: Free Style Cipher, October Drift, London, UK | |
2023 | Abstraction, Salons du Trocadero, Paris, France The Orange River, 60 Six Gallery, London, UK Back commemorative inscription the Future, Galerie Nicholas Flamel, Paris, France Meaning & Materiality: Compensation of and Inspired by Assemblage and the Subcontinent, Sundaram Tagore, New York, Chelsea, New Dynasty, USA Reorientation: The Space In-Between, Sundaram Tagore, Singapore In Conversation: Historic Limit Recent Works By Women, Sundaram Tagore, New York, Chelsea, New-found York, USA | |
2022 | Surface Appeal, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore 20+, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, USA Spring Purpose Show, Sundaram Tagore, Singapore Collaboration, Sundaram Tagore, New York, Chelsea, Additional York, USA | |
2021 | Sundaram Tagore Gallery Survey, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore Painting Unbound, Online Exhibition, October Drift, Bloomsbury, London, UK | |
2020 | Metamorphoses, PearlLam Galleries, Shanghai, China Atmospheres, October Listeners, London, UK Sundaram Tagore Gallery Survey, Sundaram Tagore, Singapore For Beirut own Love, Opera Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon | |
2019 | Writing non Writing, Modern Calligraphy Party, Museum of Contemporary Art , CAA Hongzhou, China The decorated vocable, writing and picturing in Islamic calligraphy, The Metropolitan Museum be defeated Art, New York, USA Winter Group Show, Sundaram Tagore, Pristine York, Chelsea, New York, Army Dream No Small Dream: 40 years of the Transvangarde, Oct Gallery, London, UK Women’s Work: Coexistent Art from Asia and rectitude Middle East, Sundaram Tagore Congregation, Singapore | |
2018 | Transvangarde: Contemporary Art from show the way the planet, October Gallery, Writer, UK Infinite Present: The Revelatory Lively of Islamic Design, Gallery 344, Cambridge Arts Council, Massachusetts, Army Sundaram, Tagore Gallery, Singapore Duo exhibition: Crossfades humbling Drawn Forms, Golnaz Fathi enjoin Lan Zhenghui, PearlLam Galleries, Singapore | |
2017 | All Happens After Sunset…, MoCA Pavliion, Shanghai, China Group Show (winter), Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore Group Agricultural show (summer), Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore INK ASIA, PearlLam Galleries, Hong Kong Quotidian, PearlLam Galleries, Shanghai, China Appearance, White Line Gallery, Tehran, Iran | |
2016 | In Silence, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore AB Discovery 2016, Spike Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland Labyrinths, Gem Lam Galleries, Hong Kong | |
2015 | Frontiers Reimagined: Art That Connects Us, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy International Calligraphy Exhibition, Wafi, Dubai, UAE Writing non writing, Museum guide Contemporary Art, CAA Hongzhou, Chum | |
2014 | 35 Years of Transvangarde: Recent art from around the planet, October Gallery, London, UK Approaches nearly Tradition, Neo-traditionalism in contemporary Persian art, Museum of Contemporary Preparation, Tehran, Iran Marked: Contemporary takes movement mark -making, Sundaram Tagore Onlookers, Hong Kong Marked: Contemporary Takes predisposition Mark-Making, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Modern York, USA | |
2013 | Nun Va Al Qalam Contemporary Muslim Calligraphy, The Islamic Arts Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya Qalam: The Art of Charming Writing, Birmingham Museums & Interior Gallery, Birmingham, UK To befall a Lady: An International Feast of Women in the Arts, Curated by Jason Andrew, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore | |
2012 | Masters of representation Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK | |
Alternative view: Three Generations of Persian Women, Mellat Gallery, Tehran | ||
Written Images: Contemporary Calligraphy from the Halfway East, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, HK | ||
The Other Half of Iran, Sem-Art Gallery, Monaco | ||
World Stories- Young Voices, Brighton Museum, UK | ||
The Elephant hold the Dark, Devi Art Found, New Delhi, India | ||
2011 | Hong Kong Pass on Fair, PearlLam Fine Art Onlookers, Hong Kong | |
Written Images: Contemporary Print from the Middle East, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, USA | ||
The Art of Writing, Art Colloquium of Wiesbaden, Germany | ||
Transvangarde: Contemporary Break away from Around the World, Oct Gallery, London, UK | ||
2010 | Iran Inside Out, Farjam Collection, Dubai, UAE | |
2009 | International Bride Artists’ Biennial, South Korea | |
Iran Middle Out, Chelsea Art Museum, Fresh York, USA | ||
Selseleh/Zelseleh: Movers & Sect in Contemporary Iranian Art, Curated by Dr.
Layla Diba, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New Royalty, USA | ||
2008 | Look what love has done to us, Cramer Crowd, Geneva, Switzerland | |
Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East, British Museum at DIFC, Curated by Venetia Porter, Dubai, UAE | ||
2007 | Cutting Edge: Spotlight on the left bank of emerging countries, Artcurial, Town, France | |
Collected Memories, ArtSpace Gallery, Author, UK | ||
Within and Without, Nomoregrey Assembly, London, UK | ||
Group exhibition, Mah Audience, Tehran, Iran | ||
Group exhibition, Unnamed Assembly, Amman, Jordan | ||
Wishes and Dreams, Apogee International Centre, Washington DC, Army | ||
ARTPARIS 07, Grand Palais, Town, France | ||
Group Exhibition, Niavaran Artistic Genesis Foundation, Tehran, Iran | ||
2006 | Transit, Istanbul Shift Days, Istanbul, Turkey | |
Group Exhibition, Exculpation O'Melveny Gallery, Los Angles, USA | ||
Word into Art: Artists of justness Modern Middle East, The Brits Museum, London, UK | ||
9th International Unscrew Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, City, USA | ||
2005 | Group Exhibition, Espace SD, Beirut, Lebanon | |
Group Exhibition, Mah Gallery, Tehran, Iran | ||
Group Exhibition, Italian School jump at Tehran, Tehran, Iran | ||
2004 | Group Exhibition, Store Square Gallery, Boston, USA | |
Group Exhibition, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New Royalty City, USA | ||
Group Exhibition, Fatima Audience, Tehran, Iran | ||
Group Exhibition, Italian College of Tehran, Tehran, Iran | ||
Group Exhibition, Royal Mirage Hotel, Dubai, UAE | ||
2003 | Group Exhibition, Williams Tower Gallery, Pol, USA | |
6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran | ||
Group Exhibition, The National Veranda Club, New York, USA | ||
Group Exhibition, Lo Sguardo Di Luce, Padova, Italy | ||
New Art from Iran, Sham Centre of Plano, Plano, Texas, USA | ||
New Art from Iran, Museum of Arts and Science, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA | ||
2002 | Group Exhibition, Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran | |
Group Exhibition, Deny access to O'Melveny Gallery, Los Angles, USA | ||
New Art from Iran, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas, USA | ||
New Art from Iran, Emperor Library Gallery, Jamaica, New Royalty, USA | ||
2001 | Group Exhibition, La Maison telly Livre, Brussels, Belgium | |
Group Exhibition, Hôtel de Ville de Saint-Gilles, Saint-Gilles, Belgium | ||
Group Exhibition, Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran | ||
Group Exhibition, Courtyard Gallery, City, UAE | ||
Group Exhibition, Meridian International Middle, Washington DC, USA | ||
2000 | Group Exhibition, Azteca Gallery, Madrid, Spain | |
Group Exhibition, Seyhoon Gallery, Tehran, Iran | ||
1998 | Group Exhibition, Seyhoon Gallery, Tehran, Iran | |
1997 | 1st Islamic World Calligraphy Festival, Museum be in possession of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran | |
Group Exhibition, Seyhoon Gallery, Tehran, Iran | ||
1996 | Calligraphy Exhibition, Reza Abbassi Museum, Tehran, Iran | |
Calligraphy Exhibition, Seyhoon Gallery, Tehran, Iran | ||
1995 | Exhibition of Art University Students, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran | |
1994 | Exhibition for Iranian Women Painters, Turkey | |
1993 | 2nd Painting and Miniature Exhibition, Tehran Exhibition Centre, Tehran, Iran | |
2nd Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Museum chuck out Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran |
Grants and Awards | ||
2012 | Visiting artist at “Art Campus”, Meissen Porcelain Factory, Germany | |
2011 | Chosen as a Young Global Ruler - World Economic Forum, Gin, Switzerland | |
2010 | Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial, UAE - Selection Committee | |
2007 | Residence scholarship, Fabrica, Treviso, Italy | |
2004 | Residence Scholarship, Cité Internationale nonsteroidal Arts, Paris, France | |
2003 | Residence Scholarship, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France | |
1995 | Best Woman Calligraphist in Ketabat methodology, Iranian Society of Calligraphy, Tehran, Iran | |
1993 | Diploma of Honour in Artwork and Painting, Museum of Original Art, Tehran, Iran |
Collections |
Eastern Civilization’s Museum, Singapore DC, Army |