BORN

1978
Tehran, Iran
Lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and Dubai, UAE

EDUCATION

2005
MBA, New York University, Stern School of Business, USA

1998
BS in Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Southern California, USA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
”VISITING”
Roswell Museum
Roswell, New Mexico

2018
1, 2, 3,
The Third Line
Dubai, UAE

SELECTED COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS

2023
”DUALITY”
The Third Line
Dubai, UAE

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
”Geometry and Art in The Modern Middle East”
Misk Art Institute
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

2022
”Negus”
The Third Line
Dubai, UAE

2022
”Gradate”
Sharjah Museum of Art
Sharjah, UAE

2021
”Ways of Seeing Abstraction”
Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection
Palais Populaire
Berlin, Germany

2020
”There is Fiction in the Space Between”
The Third Line
Dubai, UAE

2020
”Crafting Geometry: Abstract Art from South and West Asia”
Sotheby’s
New York, USA

2019
”Gateway: Fragments, Yesterday and Today”
Abu Dhabi Art
Abu Dhabi, UAE

2019
”Your Favorite Artist’s Favorite Artist #2”
Joshua Liner Gallery
New York, USA

2018
”Horizon”
Sharjah Museum of Art
Sharjah, UAE

AWARDS

2022
BVLGARI Contemporary Art Award
Dubai Culture and Arts Authority
Dubai, UAE / Rome, Italy

PUBLICATIONS

2019
Geometry and Art in the Modern Middle East
Skira

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2023
Snyder, Hills
Looking Through to Some Greater Grid
Southwest Contemporary, February

2019
Seaman, Anna
Transcendental Lines
Canvas, January/February

ACQUISITIONS

Deutsche Bank Collection, Berlin, Germany
Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, New Mexico

RESIDENCIES

2022-2023
Roswell Artist-In-Residence, Roswell, New Mexico