TARAVAT TALEPASAND


Bio

Born: 1979, Eugene, OR


Age: 38


Education:

  • 2006

    • San Francisco 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:

  • 2018

    • “Proxy Wars,” Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA
    • “Yeki Bood, Yeki Nabood,” Jack Fischer Gallery Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA

  • 2017

    • “Westoxicated,” Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA
    • “Made in Iran, Born in America,” Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco CA

  • 2015

    • “Not an Arab Spring,” Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL

  • 2012

    • “Pathetique,” 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, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

  • 2002

    • “New Works, From Greece,” Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR

Selected Group Exhibitions:

  • 2018

    • “In the Fields of Empty Days: Kings, Heroes, Demons and Saints in Iranian Art,” LACMA, Los Angeles, CA

  • 2017

    • “Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolor at Bowdoin College,”
    • Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine

  • 2016

    • “Inaugural Show,” Andres Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    • “Vinyl Icons: Persian Pop and Turkish Psychedelia,” Vane Gallery. Newcastle, UK
    • ARCO Madrid, Spain, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgian

  • 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 Commission 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 California Biennial,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
    • “I RAN Home (In America),” CoCA Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
    • “Tehran - 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,” de Young Museum, 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

    • Diego Rivera 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 and Awards:

  • 2017

    • Fondation Behnam Bakhtiar Award

  • 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

Residency:


2017 Internet Archive


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 and 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

Professional Experience:

  • 2016-Present

    • Tenure-track faculty, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

  • 2015-16

    • San Francisco Art Institute, Administrative Advisor, San Francisco, CA

  • 2014-16

    • San Francisco Art Institute, Post-Bachelorette Seminar, San Francisco, CA

  • 2010-16

    • San Francisco Art Institute, Undergraduate Painting & Drawing, San Francisco, CA

  • 2010-16

    • San Francisco Art Institute, Graduate Seminars & Tutorials, San Francisco, CA

  • 2012-16

    • San Francisco Art Institute, Pre-College Portraiture Drawing, San Francisco, CA

  • 2009-16

    • California College of Art, Graduate Studies, San Francisco, CA

  • 2008-16

    • California College of Art, Undergraduate Drawing & Painting, Oakland, CA

  • 2006-10

    • Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Perspective Drawing, Online Division

  • 2005

    • San Francisco Art Institute, Teaching Assistant Advanced Painting, San Francisco, CA

  • 2000-2002

    • Pacific Northwest College of Art, Young Adult Summer Program, Portland, OR

  • 2000

    • Rhode Island School of Design, Advanced Drawing, Providence RI

  • 1999

    • Rhode Island School of Design, Young Adult Watercolor, Providence, RI

Lectures:

  • 2017

    • Diversity & Art Lecture, Union College, Schenectady, NY

  • 2016

    • Painting Lecture, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
    • Painting Lecture, San Francisco State, San Francisco, CA

  • 2015

    • Visiting Artist Painting Lecture, 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

  • 2012

    • Guest Critic, Cal Arts, Los Angeles, 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:

  • 2018

    • Shaw, Anny, “Los Angeles County Museum of Art hopes to ‘change American perception of Iran’ with new show,” May 3, www.theartnewspaper.com

  • 2017

    • Hapsis, Emmaniel, “Women to Watch: Taravat Talepasand, ” KQED Arts July 26, www.kqed.org/arts
    • Bekhrad, Joobin, “Made in Iran, Born in America,” May 2, www.reorientmag.com
    • Desmarais, Charles, “Two Critical View of Migration,” May 5, San Francisco Chronicle
    • Mizota, Sharon, “Art That Forces Us To Consider What We Think We Know,”
    • February 4, Los Angeles Times
    • Jenison, David, “Blasphemous Drug Art of Taravat Talepasand,” February 6, www.prohbtd.com

  • 2016

    • Desmarais, Charles, “Untitled, Art coming to the Bay,” October 26, San Francisco Chronicle
    • Hacia, Graham, “Art School Reunion,” May 17, San Francisco Magazine, p.17
    • Dupree, Claire, “News: Vinyl Icons @Vane Gallery,” April 21, Narc Magazine
    • Art Editorial “Persian Pop! Turkish Psychadelia,” April, www.thecrackmagazine.com
    • “Vinyl Icons: Persian Pop and Turkish Psychedelia,” April, www.chroniclelive.co.uk
    • “Vinyl Icons: Persian Pop and Turkish Psychedelia Part III,” April, www.themindofmilla.com

  • 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, www.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, www.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, www.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, www.scpr.org
    • Chang, Richard, “O.C. Museum of Art Unveils it’s 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, London, 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” (reproduction), 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