BIOGRAPHY

Born: Tehran, Iran, 1986

Resides: Los Angeles, California

Education: University of Southern California (M.F.A., 2011); Art University of Tehran (B.F.A., 2009)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020    “Likely Mine,” Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles.

2018    “Screen Series: Gelare Khoshgozaran,” New Museum, New York.

2016    “Rocket Rain: موشک باران,” Human Resources Gallery, Los Angeles.

2011    “rial & tERROR,” Roski Gallery at USC, Los Angeles.

2008    “Nostalgia: Gelare Khoshgozaran and Mehregan Kazemi,” Laleh Art Gallery, Tehran.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019    “Fragile Frontiers,” YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan.

“Museum of Capitalism,” Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at Parsons School of Design, New York.

“Part and Parcel,” San Francisco Arts Commission.

2018    “Here from You,” VisArts, Rockville, Maryland.

“The Hammer Museum Made in L.A. Biennial,” Los Angeles.

2017    “Reconstitution,” LAXART, Los Angeles.

“Ours Is a City of Writers,” Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.

2016    “S/Election, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,” Los Angeles.

“Document V,” The Luminary, St. Louis, Missouri.

2015    “Nietzsche Was a Man,” Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland.

2014    “Shangri La: Imagined Cities,” Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.

            “Theory of Survival: Fabrications,” Southern Exposure, San Francisco.

2013    “A Bomb, with Ribbon Around It,” Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York.

“Encyclonospace Iranica,” Access Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia.

2011    “Status! Status! Status!,” Interstate Projects, New York.

“Iran via Video Current,” Thomas Erben Gallery, New York.

2010    “One Hour Photo,” American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.

2009    “Appropriation Allowed,” Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2019    Jansen, Charlotte. “Is Migration the Most Politically Charged Subject in the World?,” Elephant (December 3).

“15 Los Angeles Artists to Watch,” Artnews (January 9).

2018    Cohn, Pamela. “The Hurt Goes On: The 2018 Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival,” Filmmaker (October 17).

Nazif, Perwana.” Made in L.A. 2018 at the Hammer Museum,” Ocula (July 12).

Khan, Amina.” Art on the Internet: Gelare Khoshgozaran,” Kajal (July 6).

Knight, Christopher. “ 'Made in L.A. 2018': Why the Hammer Biennial Is the Right Show for Disturbing Times,” Los Angeles Times (July 5).

2017    Diehl, Travis. “Us and Them, Now and Then: Reconstituting Group Material,” Carla (August 20).

2016    Recinos, Eva. “An Iranian Artist Living in L.A. Reflects on the Effects of War in Unlikely Ways,” LA Weekly (December 15).

SELECTED SCREENINGS

2019    Medina Wasl: Connecting Town at LOOP Festival, Barcelona, Spain.

Medina Wasl: Connecting Town at Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium.

2018    Medina Wasl: Connecting Town at the 14th Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, United Kingdom.