Ali Banisadr

1976. Born in Tehran, Iran

1980
1988
Moved to California
2000
2000
Moved to New York City
2005
B.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York
2005
Group show, "In Exile", Visual Arts Gallery, New York
2006
Group show, "Tribeca Ball", Skylight, New York
2006
Group show, "Summer Painters", Chateau de Balleroy, Balleroy
2006
Gained a travel grant to Normandy, France, Château de Balleroy
2006
Won Prince of Wales Award, Forbes Foundation
2007
Group show, "Small is Beautiful", Flowers Gallery, New York
2007
Post-graduate Research Fellowship, New York Academy of Art, New York
2007
Received an award in painting from the New York Art Foundation
2007
Graduated with an M.F.A., New York Academy of Art
2007
Group show, "Homecoming", New York Academy of Art, New York
2007
Group show, Hunter College, Time Square Gallery, New York
2007
Infidels 2007
2008
Group show, "Weaving the Common Thread", Queens Museum of Art, New York
2008
Group show, "Utopia / Dystopia", Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2008
Group show, "Small is Beautiful 2", Flowers Gallery, New York
2008
Group show, "Post Graduate Fellows", New York Academy of Art, New York
2008
Visiting artist, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
2008
Solo show, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2009
Group show, Samek Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania
2009
Group show, "Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East", Saatchi Gallery, London
2009
Group show, "Raad o Bargh", Kunstraum Deutsche Bank, Salzburg
2009
Group show, "Raad o Bargh, 17 Artists from Iran", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2009
Visiting Artist, New York Academy of Art, New York
2010
2010
Group show, "Ghosts", Luce Gallery, Turin
2010
Solo show, "Evidence: Works on Paper", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2010
Group show, "Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art", Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Ghent
2010
Group show, "Contemporary Notes", Assar Gallery, Tehran
2010
Received a fellowship in painting from New York Foundation for the Arts
2010
Visiting artist, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick
2010
Visiting artist, Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse, NY
2011
Solo show, "It Happened and It Never Did", Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2011
Group show, "XXSmall", Gemeente Museum, The Hague, Netherlands
2011
Group show, "East Ex East", Brand New Gallery, Curated by Jane Neal, Milan
2011
Group show, "Visions", Monica De Cardenas, Milan
2011
The Shadow 2011
2012
Group show, "Contemporary Iranian Art in the Permanent Collection", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2012
Solo show, "We Haven’t Landed on Earth Yet", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
2012
Group show, "The Sound of Painting", Curated by Margherita Artoni, Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Turin
2012
Group show, "Peekskill Project V", Curated by Livia Straus & Lilly Wei, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
2012
Group show, "Lucie Fontaine: Estate Vernissage", Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2012
Group show, "Hue and Cry", Sotheby’s (S2 Gallery), Curated by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, New York
2012
Group show, "Referencing History", Curated by Jane Neal, Green Art Gallery, Dubai
2013
Group show, "Cinematic Visions: Painting at the Edge of Reality", Victoria Miro, London
2013
Group show, "Frauen Liebe und Leben (English: Woman's Love and Life)", The Klocker Collection, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
2013
Participated in the 6th Prague Biennale, "Expanded Painting", Czech Republic
2013
Group show, "A Selection of Recent Acquisitions", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2013
Group show, "Safar/Voyage", Museum of Anthropology (MoA), Curated by Fereshteh Daftari, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2013
Group show, "Tectonic", The Moving Museum, DIFC, Dubai
2013
Group show, "Disaster the End of Days", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin
2013
Group show, "Dynasty", Curated by Omar-Lopez Chahoud, Hotel Particulier, New York
2014
Solo show, "Motherboard", Sperone Westwater, New York
2014
Visiting artist, "Ali Banisadr and Porochista Khakpour in conversation at Sperone Westwater", New York
2014
Group show, "Love Me/Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbors", Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku
2014
Group show, "Eurasia: A View on Painting", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
2014
Group show, "Between Worlds", Curated by Jane Neal, Galerie Isa, Mumbai
2015
Solo show, "At Once", Blain/Southern, London
2016
Group show, "A Question of Perspective", GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam
2017
Solo show, "Trust in the Future", Sperone Westwater, New York
2018
Art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, Represented by Sperone Westwater Gallery, Miami Beach
2018
Art fair, FIAC, Represented by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - London, Paris
2019
Art fair, Frieze Los Angeles, Represented by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, USA
2019
Solo show, "We Work in Shadows", Theater Museum, Vienna
2019
Group show, "We Contain Multitudes", Galerie Isa, Mumbai
2019
Solo show, "Foreign Lands", Noordbrabants Museum Gallery, 's-Hertogenbosch
2019
Two person show, "Micro-Macro", Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Florida
2019
Solo show, "Ordered Disorders", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - London, London
2019
Art fair, FIAC, Represented by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - London, Paris
2019
Art fair, Frieze Art Fair Los Angeles, Represented by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - London, Los Angeles
2020
2020
Solo show, "From Painting to Printing - Online Viewing", Cristea Roberts, London
2020
Solo show, "Matrix 185", Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
2020
Solo show, "Ultramarinus - Beyond the sea", Museum of Greek Culture, Athens
2020
Group show, "Book of Drawings", Galerie ISA, Mumbai
2021
Group show, "A Boundless Drop To a Boundless Ocean", Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando
2021
Group show, "Le Cinquième Printemps", Custot Gallery, Dubai
2021
Solo show, "Beautiful Lies ", Non Gallery Spaces, Tehran
2021
Group show, "The Sky was Blue the Sea was Blue and the Boy was Blue - Online Viewing", Victoria Miro, London
2021
Solo show, "These Specks of Dust", Kasmin, New York
2021
Art fair, Frieze Art Fair New York, Represented by Kasmin, New York
2021
Group show, "Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians", Asia Society Museum, New York
2022
Group show, "Soft Edge of the Blade", Dastan Outside Projects, London
2022
Group show, "Daphne without Apollo. Metamorphoses from Richter to Lassnig from the Klöcker Collection", Opelvillen, Russelsheim
2022
Solo show, "Return To Mother", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London
2022
Group show, "Taxonomies of the Imagination", Make Room, Los Angeles
2023
Group show, "Shades of Daphne", Kasmin, New York
2023
Group show, "Between Before and After", Cristea Roberts, London
2023
Art fair, Expo Chicago, Represented by Cristea Roberts, New York
2023
Solo show, "The Changing Past", Victoria Miro, London
2024
Art fair, Frieze Art Fair New York, Represented by Victoria Miro, New York
2024
Art fair, Art Basel, Represented by Victoria Miro, Basel
2024
Solo show, "The Fortune Teller", Perrotin Gallery, Shanghai
2025
Group show, "A Century of Charcoal", Victoria Miro, London
2025
Solo show, "The Alchemist", Katonah Museum of Art, New York
2025
Group show, "Anima Mundi: Here, Now and Eternity", L’Appartement, Geneva
2025
Solo show, "Noble/Savage", Olney Gleason, New York
2026
Solo show, "The Alchemist", Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Fl
2026
Solo show, "Temple of the Mind", Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo
2026
Solo show, "Talisman", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2026
Solo show, "Talisman", Gustave Moreau Museum, Paris

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1976. Born in Tehran, Iran

1980

1988

Moved to California

2000

Moved to New York City

2005

B.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York

2005

Group show, "In Exile", Visual Arts Gallery, New York

2006

Group show, "Tribeca Ball", Skylight, New York

2006

Group show, "Summer Painters", Chateau de Balleroy, Balleroy

2006

Gained a travel grant to Normandy, France, Château de Balleroy

2006

Won Prince of Wales Award, Forbes Foundation

2007

Group show, "Small is Beautiful", Flowers Gallery, New York

2007

Post-graduate Research Fellowship, New York Academy of Art, New York

2007

Received an award in painting from the New York Art Foundation

2007

Graduated with an M.F.A., New York Academy of Art

2007

Group show, "Homecoming", New York Academy of Art, New York

2007

Group show, Hunter College, Time Square Gallery, New York

2007

2008

Group show, "Weaving the Common Thread", Queens Museum of Art, New York

2008

Group show, "Utopia / Dystopia", Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2008

Group show, "Small is Beautiful 2", Flowers Gallery, New York

2008

Group show, "Post Graduate Fellows", New York Academy of Art, New York

2008

Visiting artist, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York

2008

Solo show, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2009

Group show, Samek Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania

2009

Group show, "Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East", Saatchi Gallery, London

2009

Group show, "Raad o Bargh", Kunstraum Deutsche Bank, Salzburg

2009

Group show, "Raad o Bargh, 17 Artists from Iran", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

2009

Visiting Artist, New York Academy of Art, New York

2010

Group show, "Ghosts", Luce Gallery, Turin

2010

Solo show, "Evidence: Works on Paper", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

2010

Group show, "Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art", Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Ghent

2010

Group show, "Contemporary Notes", Assar Gallery, Tehran

2010

Received a fellowship in painting from New York Foundation for the Arts

2010

Visiting artist, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick

2010

Visiting artist, Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse, NY

2011

Solo show, "It Happened and It Never Did", Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2011

Group show, "XXSmall", Gemeente Museum, The Hague, Netherlands

2011

Group show, "East Ex East", Brand New Gallery, Curated by Jane Neal, Milan

2011

Group show, "Visions", Monica De Cardenas, Milan

2011

2012

Group show, "Contemporary Iranian Art in the Permanent Collection", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

2012

Solo show, "We Haven’t Landed on Earth Yet", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg

2012

Group show, "The Sound of Painting", Curated by Margherita Artoni, Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Turin

2012

Group show, "Peekskill Project V", Curated by Livia Straus & Lilly Wei, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York

2012

Group show, "Lucie Fontaine: Estate Vernissage", Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

2012

Group show, "Hue and Cry", Sotheby’s (S2 Gallery), Curated by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, New York

2012

Group show, "Referencing History", Curated by Jane Neal, Green Art Gallery, Dubai

2013

Group show, "Cinematic Visions: Painting at the Edge of Reality", Victoria Miro, London

2013

Group show, "Frauen Liebe und Leben (English: Woman's Love and Life)", The Klocker Collection, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg

2013

Participated in the 6th Prague Biennale, "Expanded Painting", Czech Republic

2013

Group show, "A Selection of Recent Acquisitions", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2013

Group show, "Safar/Voyage", Museum of Anthropology (MoA), Curated by Fereshteh Daftari, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

2013

Group show, "Tectonic", The Moving Museum, DIFC, Dubai

2013

Group show, "Disaster the End of Days", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin

2013

Group show, "Dynasty", Curated by Omar-Lopez Chahoud, Hotel Particulier, New York

2014

Solo show, "Motherboard", Sperone Westwater, New York

2014

Visiting artist, "Ali Banisadr and Porochista Khakpour in conversation at Sperone Westwater", New York

2014

Group show, "Love Me/Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbors", Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku

2014

Group show, "Eurasia: A View on Painting", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France

2014

Group show, "Between Worlds", Curated by Jane Neal, Galerie Isa, Mumbai

2015

Solo show, "At Once", Blain/Southern, London

2016

Group show, "A Question of Perspective", GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam

2017

Solo show, "Trust in the Future", Sperone Westwater, New York

2018

Art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, Represented by Sperone Westwater Gallery, Miami Beach

2018

Art fair, FIAC, Represented by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - London, Paris

2019

Art fair, Frieze Los Angeles, Represented by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, USA

2019

Solo show, "We Work in Shadows", Theater Museum, Vienna

2019

Group show, "We Contain Multitudes", Galerie Isa, Mumbai

2019

Solo show, "Foreign Lands", Noordbrabants Museum Gallery, 's-Hertogenbosch

2019

Two person show, "Micro-Macro", Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Florida

2019

Solo show, "Ordered Disorders", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - London, London

2019

Art fair, FIAC, Represented by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - London, Paris

2019

Art fair, Frieze Art Fair Los Angeles, Represented by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - London, Los Angeles

2020

Solo show, "From Painting to Printing - Online Viewing", Cristea Roberts, London

2020

Solo show, "Matrix 185", Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut

2020

Solo show, "Ultramarinus - Beyond the sea", Museum of Greek Culture, Athens

2020

Group show, "Book of Drawings", Galerie ISA, Mumbai

2021

Group show, "A Boundless Drop To a Boundless Ocean", Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando

2021

Group show, "Le Cinquième Printemps", Custot Gallery, Dubai

2021

Solo show, "Beautiful Lies ", Non Gallery Spaces, Tehran

2021

Group show, "The Sky was Blue the Sea was Blue and the Boy was Blue - Online Viewing", Victoria Miro, London

2021

Solo show, "These Specks of Dust", Kasmin, New York

2021

Art fair, Frieze Art Fair New York, Represented by Kasmin, New York

2021

Group show, "Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians", Asia Society Museum, New York

2022

Group show, "Soft Edge of the Blade", Dastan Outside Projects, London

2022

Group show, "Daphne without Apollo. Metamorphoses from Richter to Lassnig from the Klöcker Collection", Opelvillen, Russelsheim

2022

Solo show, "Return To Mother", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London

2022

Group show, "Taxonomies of the Imagination", Make Room, Los Angeles

2023

Group show, "Shades of Daphne", Kasmin, New York

2023

Group show, "Between Before and After", Cristea Roberts, London

2023

Art fair, Expo Chicago, Represented by Cristea Roberts, New York

2023

Solo show, "The Changing Past", Victoria Miro, London

2024

Art fair, Frieze Art Fair New York, Represented by Victoria Miro, New York

2024

Art fair, Art Basel, Represented by Victoria Miro, Basel

2024

Solo show, "The Fortune Teller", Perrotin Gallery, Shanghai

2025

Group show, "A Century of Charcoal", Victoria Miro, London

2025

Solo show, "The Alchemist", Katonah Museum of Art, New York

2025

Group show, "Anima Mundi: Here, Now and Eternity", L’Appartement, Geneva

2025

Solo show, "Noble/Savage", Olney Gleason, New York

2026

Solo show, "The Alchemist", Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Fl

2026

Solo show, "Temple of the Mind", Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo

2026

Solo show, "Talisman", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

2026

Solo show, "Talisman", Gustave Moreau Museum, Paris