1955Received a scholarship from the Fine Art Administration to study sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Carrara, Italy
1955Moved to Italy
1956Studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Carrara, Italy
1957Received a scholarship to continue his study, Italy
1958Won the sculpture prize at the 1st Tehran Biennial
1958Participated in the Twenty-ninth Venice Biennial
1958Participated in the first Tehran Biennial
1959Won a prize in Carrara Biennial for his sculpture
1959Graduated from Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan
1959Returned to Iran
1959Participated in the Carrara Sculpture Biennale
1959Participated in the Paris Biennale, France
1959Solo show, Reza Abbasi Hall, Tehran
1959Group show, Gallery Re Magi, Milan
1960Won the Royal Prize at the Second Tehran Biennial
1960Participated in the second Tehran Biennial
1960Represented Iran at the 29th Venice Biennale
1960Taught sculpture at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, United States
1960Opened Kaboud Atelier, Tehran
1960Solo show, Farhang Hall, Tehran
1960Solo show, Iran Club, London
1960Group show, Ministry of Culture of India, New Delhi and Bombay
1961Organized a group show of 14 Iranian artists' work that tours the US, Sponsored by the Grey Foundation
1961Solo show, Atelier Kaboud, Tehran
1962Participated in the third International Biennale of Sculpture, Carrara, Italy
1962The Last Poet Of Iran
1962Group show, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1962Group show, Saderat Bank, Tehran
1962Group show, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris
1962Group show, Musee d'Ixelles, Brussels
1962Solo show, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, K. B. Gallery, Minneapolis
1963Solo show, Minnetonka Center of Arts and Education, Minneapolis
1963Solo show, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
1963Solo show, KB Gallery, Minneapolis
1964Participated in the 32nd Venice Biennale
1964Head of the Sculpture Department, Tehran University
1965Solo show, Borghese Gallery, Tehran
1966Solo show, Italian Cultural Institute with Monir Farmanfarmaian, Tehran
1967Founded "Group 5" with Sohrab Sepehri, Abolghassem Saidi, Bahman Mohasses and Hossein Zenderoudi
1967Organised the 1st sculpture show by Tehran University students
1967Opened "Rasht 29", a Cafe for artists, with Kamran Diba and Roksana Saba
1967Solo show, Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran
1967Group show, Shiraz Festival, Shiraz
1967Group show, Goethe Institute, Tehran
1967Group show, Quadriennale of Rome, Italy
1969Installed an outdoor bronze sculpture in Shiraz University
1969Group show, Iran-America Society with Karl Schlamminger, Tehran
1970Solo show, Iran-America Society, Isfahan
1970Solo show, Shiraz University, Shiraz
1971Visiting artist at Hamline University, St Paul, Minnesota
1971Installed an outdoor 4-Metre stainless steel sculpture on Hamline University's campus
1971Installed bronze gates in Ray
1971Solo show, Martin Gallery Minneapolis
1972Installed the 1st modern public sculpture in bronze in front of Shahr Theater, Tehran
1972Solo show, Goethe Institute, Tehran
1973Heech and Table
1973Found Tehran Rug Society
1973Solo show, Iran-America Society, Tehran
1975Organized Tehran rug society's first show, Tribal animal covers of Iran
1975Travelling show of his collection "Lion Rugs" of Fars in the US, Canada, UK, Switzerland, Australia and Iran
1975Group show, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
1976Installation, An outdoor metal sculpture in Dakar, Senegal
1976Organised Tehran Rug Society's second show, Lori and Bakhtiyari Flatweaves
1976Travelling show in the US of his collection of pre-Islamic to early twentieth-century Iranian locks
1976Solo show, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, USA
1976Solo show, Iran-America Society, Tehran
1977Pink Lion
1977Organised the show, "The Art of Black Africa", Bagh Ferdows Heritage Building, Tehran
1977Group show, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
1978Show of pile-woven pictorial rugs designed by Tanavoli at Zand Gallery, Tehran, Iran
1978Solo show, Aachen Neue Galerie, Samlung Ludwig, Aachen
1979Retired from Tehran University
1980Solo show, Galleria Greminger, Genoa
1986Show of Gabbeh rugs designed by Tanavoli at Bessim Gallery, Vienna
1986Travelling show, "Kings-Heroes-and-Lovers", Pictorial rugs from the tribes and villages of Iran, of his rug collection in the US, Germany and Switzerland
1986Solo show, Bessim Gallery, Vienna
1988Solo show, Hirschberg Galerie, Cologne
1988Solo show, Galerie am Rosenberg, Graz
1988Group show, Olympiad of Art, Seoul, Korea
1989Immigrated to Vancouver
1989Group show, Atrium Public Gallery, Vancouver
1989Group show, Contemporary Art from Islamic World, Barbican Center, London
1989Solo show, Rudolf Mangisch Galerie, Zurich
1997Received the Joseph V. McMullan Award from the Near Eastern Art Research Center, Washington
1999Group show, Atrium Public Gallery, Vancouver
2000Group show, "Continental Shift", Museum of Aachen, Maastricht, Heerlen and Liege
2000Participated in the 7th International Shoebox Sculpture, The University of Hawaii Art Gallery
2001Group show, Iranian Contemporary Art, Barbican Centre, London
2002Chairman, Third Tehran Sculptural Biennial
2002Heech
2002Travelling show of his ancient to twentieth-century collection of Persian steel objects in Oxford, London, Dublin, Paris, Vancouver and Victoria, Canada
2002Group show, Iranian Contemporary Art, Christie’s, London
2002Group show, "Picturing Iran Art, Society and Revolution", Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
2003Solo show, "Retrospective", Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
2004Group show, "Persian Garden", Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
2004Group show, Armenian National Museum, Yerevan
2005He created a small piece of sculpture called "Heech in a Cage" to protest the conditions of the American-held prisoners at Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
2006Solo show, Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver
2006Group show, The British Museum, London
2006Began working on his piece to honour the victims of the Israeli-Lebanon war
2007Art fair, Art Paris Abu Dhabi, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery Stand, Abu Dhabi
2008Group show, "Routes", Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, London
2008Group show, "Word into Art", British Museum, Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC), Dubai, UAE
