anahita
bagheri
Anahita Bagheri is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist based in NYC. Her art is about her lived experience and memories as a woman artist in Iran and New York. She gives her own narrations mixed with Persian art, mythology, literature, and culture. Anahita uses a wide range of media in her practice, including video art, performance, sound art, multimedia sculpture, and artist book.

Video / Performance

Sculpture

Artist's Book

Curriculum vitae

Anahita Bagheri

Education:

MFA Candidate in Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC, NY

2018. BFA in Painting, Soore University, Tehran, Iran

Selected Exhibitions:

2023

AMT Moving Image Festival, Tishman Auditorium, NYC, NY

Don‘t be Chicken: Fear is the Mind Killer, 25 East Gallery, NYC, NY

Tell Them That If They Laugh, We Already Worked or the M Show, 25 E13 st, 5th-floor Men’s bathroom, NYC

Parsons Open Studios, Parsons School of Design, NYC, NY

Parsons MFA students group exhibition, 25 East Gallery, NYC, NY

Video Art Group Exhibition, Yafteh Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2022

Forget Me Not, Solo Exhibition, Soo Contemporary Gallery, Tehran, Iran

The 12th Annual Exhibition of Small Sculptures, Collaboration of Iranian Association of Sculptors and DD Center, Iran

2021

Remember – Being, Soo Contemporary Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Carbon, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Back Hand, Soo Contemporary Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2020

The 4th Versus Art Contest, Iranian Artists Forum Gallery and Ariana Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2019

The 11th Montakhabe Nasle No Festival, Homa Gallery and Shirin Gallery, Tehran, Iran

3 on 3 Summer Project, O Gallery, Tehran, Iran

The 26th Young Iranians Visual Art Festival, Ilam, Iran

2018

Postcards Group Exhibition Project, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2017

No Name; On Paper, New Media Society, Tehran, Iran

2016

Inter-Act annual projects, Iranian short film and video art projects, France and Iran

2015

The 2nd Young Iranian Designers Festival, Qasr Museum, Tehran, Iran

Group Painting Exhibition, Ivansepid Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Awards:

2022 Presidential Scholarship, Parsons School of Design, The New School, NY
2019 Shortlisted for the Third Mohsen Projects Grants, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Art Fairs and Biennials:

2020 Bon-gah Art Book Fair 2020, Tehran, Iran

2016 Peace on Paper; The 2nd Contemporary Art Biennale Iran, Niavaran Cultural Center, Abadan Museum of Contemporary Art, and Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran

Membersip:

2022- Now Member of the Iranian Association of Sculptors, Tehran, Iran
2018- 2021 Member of the Institute for promotion of contemporary art, Tehran, Iran