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SARA RAHBAR Born 1976, Tehran Iran
ARTIST STATEMENT
We left our woes behind, with only echoes of our previous lives remaining. Seeking continuation, time and refuge, human beings attempting to survive our selves, our lives, and our present locations.
My work is my story told, it is a direct reflection of the constant questioning of the who I am, what and where is home, and why I am here. It is the mirror image of my life, my geographic locations, my history, my present, my environments and my memories.
Metamorphosing and transforming for the means of surviving it all, our foundations lay, but our houses have burned to the ground. Building castles in the sky, for a species that cannot fly, brick by limb we tear it down. Thinking that we are moving forwards, yet moving backwards all along.
Gajar woman and golden toys, we wait for dawn.
Education
2004-2005 Central Saint Martins Collage of Art and Design, London (Fine Art) 1996-2000 The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York (Design)
Exhibitions
2010 Never Run Away, Curated by Shaheen Merali, Stux Gallery, New York Eye of the Beholder, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, New York
2009 The Edible Woman, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York The Promise of Loss, A Contemporary Index of Iran, brot-kunsthalle, Vienna Iran Inside out: Influences of Homeland and Disaporic realities, Artists, DePaul University Museum, Chicago The Seen and the Hidden: (Dis)covering the Veil, The Austrian Cultural Forum , New York Iran Inside out: Influences of Homeland and Disaporic realities on the works of 50 Contemporary Iranian Artists, Chelsea Art Museum, New York Collective de 5 artistes Iranians, Galerie Hussenot, Paris Sara Rahbar-Love arrived and how red, Recent works, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna Unveiled: New art from the Middle East, The Saatchi Gallery, London Artist in Exile, Arario Gallery, New York Indian Popular Culture, and beyond: The Untold (the rise of) Schisms, Sala Alcalá 31 Madrid, Spain Contradicting Realities: Recent work by Sara Rahbar, Tyler Art Gallery, Suny Oswego, New York
2008 What was the word I want, Galerie Hussenot, Paris Look what love did to us once again, an Iranian group show, Cramer Contemporary, Geneve Switzerland In Transition Russia, National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow In Transition Russia, Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg XVA gallery, Bastakiya, Dubai Everywhere is War (and rumors of war). Bodhi Art, Mumbai, India On a clear day you can see forever, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna Emerging Discourse: Multiple and Overlapping Contemplations from the Diaspora, Bodhi Art, New York Raid Projects, Los Angeles This Case of Conscience - Spiritual Flushing and the Remonstrance, Queens Museum of Art, New York Regional Delicacies, Phillips de Pury & Company at the CAF In collaboration with XVA gallery & Alef Magazine, Bastakiya, Dubai Human Rights Awareness Tour, a traveling exhibition, The Veil: Visible and invisible spaces, a traveling exhibition, Persian Arts Festival: Weaving the Common Thread: Perspectives from Iranian Artists, Queens Museum of Art, New York
2007 Continuity and Change: Islamic Tradition in Contemporary Art, The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York Hyphenation Exhibition, University of Maryland, Union Gallery, Maryland Iranian Literary Arts Festival, Theater Artaud, San Francisco Inclusion Exclusion, Bronco exhibit gallery Cal Poly Pomona, Los Angeles Celluloid, Gallery One, San Francisco Emergency Room, PS1 MoMA New York Emergence, Current Gallery, Baltimore MD Beyond Persia, Gallery One, San Francisco Changing Climate, Changing Colors 24 Contemporary Muslim Artists, Henry Street Settlement, New York
2006 Chicago Artist Month, Beyond Boundaries, Global Citizen, John Fluevog, Chicago Everything, All at Once, QMA Biennial, Queens Museum of Art, New York Nobodys Enemy, Queens Museum of Art, New York Great Neck Arts Center, New York The Shelter Rock Art Gallery, New York BT, Brooklyn Lyceum, New York
2004 See Williamsburg, Lunar Base Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
COLLECTIONS
The Center Pompidou, Paris The Saatchi Collection, London The Devi Art Foundation, India The Burger Collection, Hong Kong The FPM Collection, Florian Peters-Messer, Berlin Ernst Hilger Private Collection, Vienna
PUBLICATIONS 2009 Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East (London: The Saatchi Gallery, London, 2009) Different Sames: New Perspectives on Contemporary Iranian Art, Hossain Amirsadeghi (London: TransGlobe Publishing Ltd., 2009) Contemporary Art in the Middle East, ARTWORLD (Black Dog Publishing, Suzanne Cotter, Lindsey Moore, Nat Muller 2009)
Selected Articles
2009 Eikon Issue#68, Sara Rahbar,The Lady Doth Protest Too Much … Methinks, By Shaheen Merali Woman, Die Kunstist Weiblich, October 2009 Art Asia Pacific, Sara Rahbar: Love arrived and How Red, By Sara Raza, Issue# 65 Sept/Oct 2009 The New York Times, Multilayered and Multicultural, Creative Views of Muslim Head Scarf, By Karen Rosenburg, August 14, 2009 Art Asia Pacific, Artists in Exile, By Meenakshi Thirukode, Issue#64 July/August 2009 KunstKompakt, Sara Rahbar: Kunst als politisches sprachrohr, By Eva Komarek, March 2009 The Independent, Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, Saatchi Gallery, By Charles Darwent Sleek Magazine, Local/Global Issue, Middle East, 2009
2008 Sara Rahbar In Conversation With Ana Finel Honigman, Saatchi Online Daily Magazine, November 24 2008 V magazine, New Art, by Ana Finel Honigman Winter 2008 Ninja Lab Magazine Issue#4, Stand Alone, by Pierre Cialdella September 2008 Coloring outside the Lines Issue#4, by Melanie Madison, July 2008 WestEast Magazine, Persian Art, by Ren Wan 2008 Alef Magazine, A Woman of Substance, by Ana Finel Honigman, March/April 2008 Art Asia Pacific, Issue# 57, Sara Rahbar: Weaving the Flag, by Jaishri Abichandani, March/April 2008 The Kuwait Review, Hello Dubai” by Ana Finel Honigman, April 2008 Artnet , Hello Dubai, by Ana Finel Honigman, March 24th 2008 Art Daily, Precursor to bill of rights makes its return, March 21st 2008 Voice of America, January 25, 2008
2007 Yen, The Art of War, by Rebecca Couche, issue# 30, 2007 Iran Times, The Iranian American Artist be- gifts her work for the sake of Human Rights, Dec 14th 2007 Oziran, Art for the Sake of Humanity by Sanaz Fotouhi, October 2007 Payvand, An Interview with Human Rights Artist Sara Rahbar, by Ali Moayedian, August 2007 Shrug Magazine, My Iran, I am not Ahmadine nejad, I am an Iranian, I am not President Bush, I am an American, by Oliver Shamlou, August 2007 Abort Magazine, Abort Magazine’s NA talks with Controversial IranianAmerican Artist Sara Rahbar 6/25/07 Payvand, Profile: Sara Rahbar, Iranian-American Human Rights Artist, by Ali Moayedian, July 18 2007 Pars Arts, Iranian Artists at the Queens Museum (II), by Sepideh Saremi, January 17th 2007 Pars Arts, Sara Rahbar at the Queens Museum, by Sepideh Saremi, January 5th 2007 PS1 MoMA, Emergency Room, by Debora Gilbert Namak, Contradicting Realities, by Monique Soltani, March 2007 Payvand, The Axis of Art & Culture? by Ali Moayedian,February 28 2007 Tehran, Sara Rahbar the Iranian American Activist Artist, by, Shahbod Noori, February 2, 2007 Venus Zine, Sara Rahbar: The Activist-Artist, by Sheba White, January 2007 Time Out New York, Queens International: Everything All At Once, by Kate Loenstein, Issue 589 January Iranian, American Portrait, by Neda Sarmast, Oct 25, 2006, Attachments June 18, 2007, Persian Mirror, “Addressing the Personal, Cultural and Political” April 17th 2007
2006 New York Times, Art From Everywhere, All From Queens, by Martha Schwendener December 15, 2006 BBC Persian, Rozeh Haftome, by Nazanin Mazhari , November 2006 Persian Mirror, “Sara Rahbar: A Portrait” by Neda Sarmast, October 24, 2006 Persian Mirror, A Collection of Iranian Artwork, Oct 14, 2006 Queens Chronicle, Qboro-Day Tripping at Queens International by Jennifer Manley, Oct 19, 2006 Queens International 2006, Everything All at Once, Vol. 3 Oct 2006
Experience
2008 Speaking engagement at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York Teaching Artist, Queens Museum of Art, New York Speaking engagement at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York Work used for The 2008 Noor Film Festival, Los Angeles Sandarbh U.S. International Artist residency, Moultrie Georgia Teaching Artist Flushing Library, in collaboration with the Queens Museum of Art, New York
2007 Work featuring Yas (Iran's biggest name in Hip Hop) can be found through out the Internet. Documenting his life, and career for the past three years, has led to an album cover, as well as hundreds of publications, websites/interviews, music blogs, and video clips. Speaking engagement at, El Museo del barrio, forum on immigration and museum education, New York Teaching Artist, with the Queens Museum of Art, The New Americans Program, New York Speaking engagement at The School of Visual Arts, New York Teaching Artist, Woman for Afghan Woman, New York Artist and Art Director of the Persian Arts Festival, New York (2005-2007) Film Photographer and Production Coordinator, Nobodys Enemy, Tehran Iran, New York (2005-2007)
2006 Teaching Artist, Professional Development Program for Correctional Educators, Queens Museum of Art, New York Teaching Artist Residency, Queens Museum of Art, New York Artwork used for art therapy workshops for severely disabled children, Queens Museum of Art, New York
2005 Freelance Photographer, Tehran, Iran (2005-Present) Photographer for short film Nobody has a name Nobody, Tehran, Iran
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