Taha Heydari
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| Born | Mohammad Taha Heydari 1986 (age 37–38) Tehran, Iran |
| 🏡 Residence | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Iranian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Tehran, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Painting |
| 🌐 Website | tahaheydari |
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Taha Heydari (born 1986) is an Iranian-born American contemporary artist, known for his paintings.
About[edit]
Taha Heydari was born 1986, in Tehran, Iran.[1] He grew up in Tehran and was trained from the age of twelve in Persian miniature painting.[1]His father is a painter and professor of art at Tehran Art University and Tarbiat Modares University. Heydari studied painting in high school at the School of Fine Art in Tehran, graduating in 2005.
The following year he continued his studies at Tehran University of Art where graduated with a BFA degree in Painting in 2009. In 2014 he moved to the United States to pursue his Master's Degree at The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). He trained under the direction of Joan Waltemath, and received his MFA degree from MICA's LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting in 2016.[2][3]
Immediately after completing his studies, in a very competitive process, he was awarded a studio at School 33, an art center maintained by Baltimore Promotion & the Arts (BOPA), a non-profit agency that organizes major art and cultural events and initiatives throughout the city. With a speed unusual in today’s competitive art world, his work was then featured at Art Basel Miami by Haines Gallery alongside Ai Weiwei and Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian and celebrated in a one-person show, Taha Heyhari: Subliminal, curated by Cora Fisher, at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston Salem, NC, one of the nation’s leading non-profit contemporary art venues, from June 22 to October 18, 2017[3] That year, he was also a semi-finalist for the coveted Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize awarded by BOPA.[4]Heydari has also been included in highly competitive exhibitions at such respected Baltimore non-profit art organizations as the Creative Alliance and Maryland Art Place, as well as Current Space, a prominent, artist-run, local commercial gallery. Prestigious national commercial galleries, such as Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and Ethan Cohen, New York, NY, have displayed his work, as have international galleries and art shows in Tehran, Berlin, Dubai, UAE, Antwerp, Belgium, and London. Heydari has also been featured at such major art fairs as Miami Basel, Armory New York, and Artissima, Turin. Heydari’s latest works draw from an Iranian women’s magazine published in the years leading up to Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. He returns to magazines like Zan-E Rooz to examine how the then emerging national ideology responded to the aesthetics and cultural products of the prior regime. As he has observed: “Wars and revolutions create points of chaos through time and provide a before / after binary by which history is constructed and ordered.”[1] He also studies and makes use of screenshots of video games and computer generated glitchy pictures, low-quality surveillance photographs, and scientific images.
Heydari likes to base his paintings on digital imagery, with some areas in various states of pixilation or degradation.[3]
Heydari’s paintings not only capture contemporary life, they also are executed in a twenty-first century style that utilizes visual features of digital communication familiar from our now daily, even constant, social media experiences. In richly textured narrative surfaces that resemble digital tapestries, Heydari employs paint rollers, palette knives, and air brushes to create elaborate ‘filters’ of line drawings, computer generated patterns, traditional Middle Eastern art motifs, and found photographic imagery culled from the internet and archives to create powerful images. The glitches and pixels he create seem to dissolve and reconstitute before the viewer’s eyes, enabling viewers to see and absorb information and ideas, many around the subject of political authoritarianism, that are sometimes frightening or disturbing, in new and deeper ways. He has applied these techniques to American events as well, for example, Inside the Van, 2017, a promised gift from a private collector to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, Baltimore. This ambitious painting memorializes the demise of Freddie Gray, a young African-American man, who died at the hands of Baltimore City policemen in 2015, prompting in response a citywide protest and an ongoing conversation about equity and justice.[3][5][1][6]
Exhibitions[edit]
Solo[edit]
Heydari has had a few solo art exhibitions at international galleries.
- 2019 – Impact Craters, Ab-Anbar Gallery Tehran, Iran[2]
- 2017 – Running Rabbits, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 2017 – Subliminal, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina[2]
- 2016 – Corrupted, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 2015 – See Something Say Something, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, New York
- 2011 – The Maps, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2010 – Last Night, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Group[edit]
From 2005 to 2017, Heydari's works have been included in over 30 exhibitions in such diverse cities as Tehran, London, Berlin, Baltimore, Miami, New York City, Antwerp, Dubai, Kuwait City, and Amsterdam.
Articles About the artist[edit]
- 2016 A Conversation with Taha Heydari, Commotion Magazine, Issue 3, Fall 2016
- 2016 Interview, A conversation with Taha Heydari,
www.mica.edu/News/A_Conversation_with_Taha_Heydari. July 7, 2016.
- 2016 Rebecca Juliette, Bmore Art,
bmoreart.com/event/the-edge-paintings-by-taha-heydari-and-julia-garcia-ballroom-gallery, April 4, 2016
- 2015 Chan, Michele. “Taha Heydari Decodes Radical Propaganda in the Middle East, In Pictures.” Art
Radar, April 24, 2015.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Ten Contemporary Artists Revising History in Baltimore". 24 February 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Farley, Michael (21 April 2019). "US-Based Iranian Artist Taha Heydari Censors His Own Work to Talk About State Control". Latest News and Trends|Observer.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Patterson, Tom. "Iranian-American Painter's exhibition at SECCA provides visual revelations while highlighting hidden messages and nefarious political agendas". journalnow.com|Winston_Salem News. Sports, Entertainment, Classifieds.
- ↑ "2017 Semi-Finalists Announced for Sondheim Prize".
- ↑ Mothes, Kate (15 April 2018). "Taha Heydari in Painting, Youngspace". YoungSpace. Young Space. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
- ↑ Ober, Cara (June 10, 2019). "Collecting: Tax Tips for Artists, How to Price Your Work, and Museum Acquisitions: Connect & Collect III with Doreen Bolger and Taha Heydari". Bmore Art.
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