Farhad Moshiri

Painter and multi-media artist Farhad Moshiri was born in 1963 in Shiraz, Iran and graduated in Fine Arts at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 1984. He now lives and works between Paris and Tehran.

Selected recent solo exhibitions include “Nothing Serious” at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (2010); “Farhad Moshiri” at the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris (2009); “Home Sweet Home” at the Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (2008); “Candy Store”, at The Third Line, Dubai and “Sweet Dreams”, at the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York (both 2007); “Farhad Moshiri” at the Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, New York (2004); and “Reservoirs of Memories” at Leighton House Museum, London (2003).

Selected group exhibitions include "Zendegi: Twele contemporary Iranain artist", Rose Issa Projects at the Beirut Exhibition Center, (2011); “Iran, Inside Out”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York (2009); “Word into Art”, DIFC, Dubai (2008) and the British Museum, London (2006); “Iran.com”, at the Museum of New Art, Freiburg, Germany (2006); “V-Day”, at the Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, New York (2006); “After the Revolution”, KM Kulturunea Erakustaretoa, San Sebastian, Spain (2005); “Almost Nothing”, Extraspazio, Rome, Italy (2005); “Far Near Distance”, House of World Cultures, Berlin (2004); “Iran Under the Skin”, CCCB, Barcelona (2004); “It’s Hard to Touch the Real”, Kunstverein, Munich (2004); “Haft”, at l’Espace Landowski, Ville De Boulogne-Billancourt, France (2004).

His work is in several public collections worldwide, including the British Museum, London and Virginia Museum of Fine Art, USA.

He also features in "Far Near Distance: Contemporary Positions of Iranian Artists”, edited by Martin Hager and Shaheen Merali, with an essay by Rose Issa (Haus der Kulturen Der Welt, 2004).