Mehrdad Afsari

1977. Born in Khoy, Iran

1990
1998
Group show, Tehran Gallery, Tehran University, Tehran
1998
Group show, "Student Photo Festival", Tehran Gallery - Tehran University, Tehran
1999
Show, Tehran Gallery, Tehran
2000
2000
Received his B.A. in photography, Art and Architecture Faculty of Azad University of Tehran, Iran
2000
Group show, "Iranian Contemporary Photography", Assar Art Gallery, Tehran
2001
Group show, Asar Gallery, Tehran
2002
Solo show, "The Village of Tehran", Aeineh Gallery, Tehran
2003
Solo show, "Roadscape" and "The Felts", Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2004
Honorary member of Iranian Visual Artists Society
2004
Solo show, "Untitled", Haft Samar Art Gallery, Tehran
2004
Group show, Art Expo, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
2004
Group show, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2004
Group show, Silk Road Art Gallery, Tehran
2004
Participated in the 9th Photo Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2005
Award and fellowship, The 2nd Iranian Sea Photo Biennial, Third Prize
2005
Solo show, "Photography as a Myth", Silk Road Art Gallery, Tehran
2005
Solo show, "Selected Works", UNDP, Tehran Office, Iran
2006
Award and fellowship, 10th Photo Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, First Prize, Tehran
2006
Received his M.F.A. in Photography, Art University of Tehran, Iran
2006
Participated in the 10th Photo Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2006
Solo show, "Gum Bichromate Print", Assar Art Gallery, Tehran
2007
Award and fellowship, 4th Iranian Sea Photo Biennial, Second Prize
2007
Untitled
2008
Award and fellowship, Art Bridge Program, International arts & artists, USA
2008
Solo show, "I Am Oblivious of All Things", Khak Art Gallery, Tehran
2008
Group show, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, D.C.
2008
Group show, Niavaran Artistic Creations Foundation, Tehran
2008
Solo show, "I Forgot Everything", Khak Gallery, Tehran
2009
Award and fellowship, "1 Sq. Mile Project", Art Institution in London, UK
2009
Art fair, Paris photo, Paris
2009
Solo show, "The Frenzied Heart of Mine, Houses the Passionate Countenance of Thine", Assar Art Gallery, Tehran
2009
Group show, "Settlement and Urban Identity in the Persian Gulf Region", University of Westminster, London
2009
Group show, "Tehran 1 Mile 2: Installation", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
2009
Group show, "Settlement and Urban Identity in the Persian Gulf Region", University of Westminster, London
2010
2010
Award and fellowship, KAUNAS Photo Star Festival, Top finalist, Kaunas, Lithuania
2010
Art fair, Contemporary Art Istanbul, Istanbul
2010
Group show, "Big Lie-Video", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran
2010
Group show, "Obligatory Military Service - Video", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran
2010
Group show, "Tehran 1,6 sq Km", Tarahan Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
2010
Jury member of "Persia in the Mirror of Nature" Photo Festival, Shiraz
2010
Art fair, Contemporary Istanbul
2010
Group show, "Obligatory Military Service: Video", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2010
Group show, "Big Lie: Video", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2010
Jury member "Persia in the Mirror of Nature Photo Festival", Shiraz
2011
Art fair, Contemporary Art Istanbul, Istanbul
2011
Art fair, Berliner Liste, Berlin
2011
Solo show, "The Sacred Geometry of Chance", Etemad Art Gallery, Tehran
2011
Group show, "Pool", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran
2011
Group show, “13X18 Portrait” -Video, Etamad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2011
Art fair, Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul
2011
Group show, "TV Dinner Project: Video", Queens Museum, USA
2011
Group show, "The 1st Tehran Annual Digital Art Show (TADAEX)", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2012
Solo show, "Insomnia", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran
2012
Group show, "Confined Landscape", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran
2012
Group show, "Inbetweenness: Video", Mahemehr Gallery, Tehran
2013
Solo show, "America, Suspended Land", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran
2013
Group show, “Silence", Shirin Art Gallery, curated by: Iman Safaei, Tehran
2013
Group show, "My Name Is Not Rouge", Shirin Gallery, New York
2013
Group show, "Sub Tehran: Subjective Truth from Iran: Video, Center of Contemporary Art (CCA)", Tbilisi, Georgia
2014
Solo show, "The Gradual Disappearance of Things", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran
2014
Group show, "Approaches to Tradition neo- Traditionalism in Contemporary Iranian Art”, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2014
Group show, "Zoo", Shirin Gallery, Tehran
2014
Group show, "Transmitting Energy – Bio 50", Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Ljubljana
2015
Group show, "Unclear Deal", Curated by Mehdi Abdolkarimi, The Mine Art Gallery, Dubai
2015
Group show, "Art for Peace", Curated by Feridon Farbod-Niavaran Artistic Creations Foundation, Tehran
2015
Group show, "Winter", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran
2015
Art fair, ART ANKARA, "Iranian Contemporary Art", Ankara
2015
Curatorial project, photo group show "Winter", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2015
Jury member "DastDovvom Photo Festival", Tehran
2015
Jury member, "Soogvareh Photo Festival", Birjand
2016
Solo show, "After Grandmother", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran
2016
Art fair, Photo Shanghai, Shanghai
2016
Art fair, Art Ankara Contemporary Art Fair, Ankara
2016
Group show, "Seven Passages", Theme Gallery, Tehran
2016
Award and Residency, Iran and ` Artist Exchange program, Bergen, Norway
2016
Jury member in 2nd Foad Photo Festival, Tehran
2016
Jury member in 6th Birjand Photo Festival, Birjand
2017
Group show, "Iranian Garden” – 3, 14 Art Gallery, Bergen, Norway
2017
Art fair, Photo Shanghai, Shanghai
2017
Art Fair, Photo San Francisco, San Francisco
2017
Group show, "Portfolio 02", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2017
Group show, "Tide", Silk Road Gallery, Tehran
2017
Curatorial project, Group show "Implicit Signifies", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2017
Solo show, ""The Hidden Law of Causality" and "Years Long Gone"", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2018
Group show, "Only the Morning Bird Treasures the Flower Garden", Redcat Gallery, Los Angeles
2018
Group show, "6th International Art for Peace Festival", Pardis Mellat, Tehran
2018
Solo show, "Forty a Treatise on Terrene Traverse", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2018
Jury member in 11th Fajr Visual Art Festival, Saba Art and Cultural Institute, Tehran
2018
Nominee for International photography Grant, International photography magazine
2018
Untitled 2018
2018
Group show, "Factory 01", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2018
Jury member in 1st Blue Sky Photo Festival, Tehran
2018
Jury member in 3rd Focus: Iran Contemporary Photography and Video Biennial, CAFAM Museum, Los Angeles
2018
Scientific and Artistic Committee of "7th 10 Days with Photographers Annual Festival", Iranian Artist Forum, Tehran
2018
Jury member in Isfahan Photo Festival, Isfahan
2018
Art fair, Photo London, Represented by Mohsen Gallery, London
2019
Solo show, "Photographs Afront", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2019
Group show, "A Few Days in Between", Nabshi Center, Tehran
2019
Group show, "Shabtab 6", Ordibehesht Gallery, Tehran
2019
Art fair, Photofairs, Represented by Mohsen Gallery, London
2019
Group show, "Iran - Visual Poetries", Quebec Photography Show, Quebec
2020
2020
Group show, "Habitat", Bavan Gallery, Tehran
2020
Group show, "Factory 03", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2020
Art fair, Teer Art, Represented by Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2023
Group show, "Event: Iranian Contemporary Art and Shifting Realities", Bavan Gallery, London
2023
Group show, ""Didar" with Artists", Didar Art Gallery, Tehran
2023
Art fair, Contemporary Istanbul, Represented by Bavan Gallery, Istanbul
2024
Group show, "Nature", Saless Gallery, Tehran
2025
Solo show, "Mindscape Photographs", Bavan Gallery, Tehran
2025
Group show, "Continuum: The Unbroken Line of Persian Art", Foundry, Dubai
2026
Group show, "Home: the Sun Rises in the East", Bavan Gallery, Tehran
2026
Group show, "The Nap", Bazdid Art Gallery, Tehran

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1977. Born in Khoy, Iran

1990

1998

Group show, Tehran Gallery, Tehran University, Tehran

1998

Group show, "Student Photo Festival", Tehran Gallery - Tehran University, Tehran

1999

Show, Tehran Gallery, Tehran

2000

Received his B.A. in photography, Art and Architecture Faculty of Azad University of Tehran, Iran

2000

Group show, "Iranian Contemporary Photography", Assar Art Gallery, Tehran

2001

Group show, Asar Gallery, Tehran

2002

Solo show, "The Village of Tehran", Aeineh Gallery, Tehran

2003

Solo show, "Roadscape" and "The Felts", Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2004

Honorary member of Iranian Visual Artists Society

2004

Solo show, "Untitled", Haft Samar Art Gallery, Tehran

2004

Group show, Art Expo, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran

2004

Group show, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2004

Group show, Silk Road Art Gallery, Tehran

2004

Participated in the 9th Photo Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran

2005

Award and fellowship, The 2nd Iranian Sea Photo Biennial, Third Prize

2005

Solo show, "Photography as a Myth", Silk Road Art Gallery, Tehran

2005

Solo show, "Selected Works", UNDP, Tehran Office, Iran

2006

Award and fellowship, 10th Photo Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, First Prize, Tehran

2006

Received his M.F.A. in Photography, Art University of Tehran, Iran

2006

Participated in the 10th Photo Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran

2006

Solo show, "Gum Bichromate Print", Assar Art Gallery, Tehran

2007

Award and fellowship, 4th Iranian Sea Photo Biennial, Second Prize

2007

Untitled

2008

Award and fellowship, Art Bridge Program, International arts & artists, USA

2008

Solo show, "I Am Oblivious of All Things", Khak Art Gallery, Tehran

2008

Group show, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, D.C.

2008

Group show, Niavaran Artistic Creations Foundation, Tehran

2008

Solo show, "I Forgot Everything", Khak Gallery, Tehran

2009

Award and fellowship, "1 Sq. Mile Project", Art Institution in London, UK

2009

Art fair, Paris photo, Paris

2009

Solo show, "The Frenzied Heart of Mine, Houses the Passionate Countenance of Thine", Assar Art Gallery, Tehran

2009

Group show, "Settlement and Urban Identity in the Persian Gulf Region", University of Westminster, London

2009

Group show, "Tehran 1 Mile 2: Installation", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran

2009

Group show, "Settlement and Urban Identity in the Persian Gulf Region", University of Westminster, London

2010

Award and fellowship, KAUNAS Photo Star Festival, Top finalist, Kaunas, Lithuania

2010

Art fair, Contemporary Art Istanbul, Istanbul

2010

Group show, "Big Lie-Video", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran

2010

Group show, "Obligatory Military Service - Video", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran

2010

Group show, "Tehran 1,6 sq Km", Tarahan Azad Art Gallery, Tehran

2010

Jury member of "Persia in the Mirror of Nature" Photo Festival, Shiraz

2010

Art fair, Contemporary Istanbul

2010

Group show, "Obligatory Military Service: Video", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran

2010

Group show, "Big Lie: Video", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran

2010

Jury member "Persia in the Mirror of Nature Photo Festival", Shiraz

2011

Art fair, Contemporary Art Istanbul, Istanbul

2011

Art fair, Berliner Liste, Berlin

2011

Solo show, "The Sacred Geometry of Chance", Etemad Art Gallery, Tehran

2011

Group show, "Pool", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran

2011

Group show, “13X18 Portrait” -Video, Etamad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2011

Art fair, Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul

2011

Group show, "TV Dinner Project: Video", Queens Museum, USA

2011

Group show, "The 1st Tehran Annual Digital Art Show (TADAEX)", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran

2012

Solo show, "Insomnia", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran

2012

Group show, "Confined Landscape", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran

2012

Group show, "Inbetweenness: Video", Mahemehr Gallery, Tehran

2013

Solo show, "America, Suspended Land", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran

2013

Group show, “Silence", Shirin Art Gallery, curated by: Iman Safaei, Tehran

2013

Group show, "My Name Is Not Rouge", Shirin Gallery, New York

2013

Group show, "Sub Tehran: Subjective Truth from Iran: Video, Center of Contemporary Art (CCA)", Tbilisi, Georgia

2014

Solo show, "The Gradual Disappearance of Things", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran

2014

Group show, "Approaches to Tradition neo- Traditionalism in Contemporary Iranian Art”, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran

2014

Group show, "Zoo", Shirin Gallery, Tehran

2014

Group show, "Transmitting Energy – Bio 50", Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Ljubljana

2015

Group show, "Unclear Deal", Curated by Mehdi Abdolkarimi, The Mine Art Gallery, Dubai

2015

Group show, "Art for Peace", Curated by Feridon Farbod-Niavaran Artistic Creations Foundation, Tehran

2015

Group show, "Winter", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran

2015

Art fair, ART ANKARA, "Iranian Contemporary Art", Ankara

2015

Curatorial project, photo group show "Winter", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran

2015

Jury member "DastDovvom Photo Festival", Tehran

2015

Jury member, "Soogvareh Photo Festival", Birjand

2016

Solo show, "After Grandmother", Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran

2016

Art fair, Photo Shanghai, Shanghai

2016

Art fair, Art Ankara Contemporary Art Fair, Ankara

2016

Group show, "Seven Passages", Theme Gallery, Tehran

2016

Award and Residency, Iran and ` Artist Exchange program, Bergen, Norway

2016

Jury member in 2nd Foad Photo Festival, Tehran

2016

Jury member in 6th Birjand Photo Festival, Birjand

2017

Group show, "Iranian Garden” – 3, 14 Art Gallery, Bergen, Norway

2017

Art fair, Photo Shanghai, Shanghai

2017

Art Fair, Photo San Francisco, San Francisco

2017

Group show, "Portfolio 02", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran

2017

Group show, "Tide", Silk Road Gallery, Tehran

2017

Curatorial project, Group show "Implicit Signifies", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran

2017

Solo show, ""The Hidden Law of Causality" and "Years Long Gone"", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran

2018

Group show, "Only the Morning Bird Treasures the Flower Garden", Redcat Gallery, Los Angeles

2018

Group show, "6th International Art for Peace Festival", Pardis Mellat, Tehran

2018

Solo show, "Forty a Treatise on Terrene Traverse", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran

2018

Jury member in 11th Fajr Visual Art Festival, Saba Art and Cultural Institute, Tehran

2018

Nominee for International photography Grant, International photography magazine

2018

2018

Group show, "Factory 01", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran

2018

Jury member in 1st Blue Sky Photo Festival, Tehran

2018

Jury member in 3rd Focus: Iran Contemporary Photography and Video Biennial, CAFAM Museum, Los Angeles

2018

Scientific and Artistic Committee of "7th 10 Days with Photographers Annual Festival", Iranian Artist Forum, Tehran

2018

Jury member in Isfahan Photo Festival, Isfahan

2018

Art fair, Photo London, Represented by Mohsen Gallery, London

2019

Solo show, "Photographs Afront", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran

2019

Group show, "A Few Days in Between", Nabshi Center, Tehran

2019

Group show, "Shabtab 6", Ordibehesht Gallery, Tehran

2019

Art fair, Photofairs, Represented by Mohsen Gallery, London

2019

Group show, "Iran - Visual Poetries", Quebec Photography Show, Quebec

2020

Group show, "Habitat", Bavan Gallery, Tehran

2020

Group show, "Factory 03", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran

2020

Art fair, Teer Art, Represented by Mohsen Gallery, Tehran

2023

Group show, "Event: Iranian Contemporary Art and Shifting Realities", Bavan Gallery, London

2023

Group show, ""Didar" with Artists", Didar Art Gallery, Tehran

2023

Art fair, Contemporary Istanbul, Represented by Bavan Gallery, Istanbul

2024

Group show, "Nature", Saless Gallery, Tehran

2025

Solo show, "Mindscape Photographs", Bavan Gallery, Tehran

2025

Group show, "Continuum: The Unbroken Line of Persian Art", Foundry, Dubai

2026

Group show, "Home: the Sun Rises in the East", Bavan Gallery, Tehran

2026

Group show, "The Nap", Bazdid Art Gallery, Tehran