Born in 1346, Tehran, Iran
Education
1998 MA, Painting, Azad University, Art and Architecture School, Tehran, Iran
1996 BA, Painting, Azad University, Art and Architecture School, Tehran, Iran
Biography
Born in 1967 in Tehran, Iran, Samira Alikhanzadeh started painting in 1987 under the supervision of the Iranian Master Aydin Aghdashloo. Two years later, she attended Tehran’s Azad University where she continued to complete her MA in painting.
Being fascinated with the issues of identity and reality in relation to past and present and finding inspiration in the melancholic and humoristic quality of old images, Alikhanzadeh uses old found photographs, mainly family photos of the 1940s and 50s to create her artworks. Whereas initially she used photographs in her collage work, in her latest works, her images are printed digitally on either wooden boards or Perspex. By using mirror, she playfully manages the viewers’ own presence in the work. That presence itself is manipulated even further through the usage of diagonal mirrors in order to create distorted and unreal images in some of her later works. Moreover, she enjoys experimenting with new materials and in addition to her main and recurring tools of mirrors and acrylic, she is also keen on using real carpets in some of her works.
Alikhanzadeh lives and works in Tehran where she regularly exhibits. She has taken part in over 30 exhibitions and art fairs in North America, Europe and the Middle East since 1995. In addition to her works being part of important private collections worldwide, two works from her Carpet series were acquired by LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) in 2010.
1967 Tehran, Iran
Solo Exhibitions
2017 The Unforgottens, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, USA
2014 Departed and Yet Remaining, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 Mirror Garden, Art Space Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2012 Talking In Silence, Art Space London, London, UK
2011 Face to Face, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2008 Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2005 Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2004 Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2001 Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
1999 Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Group Exhibitions
2016 Iran Art Now, Setareh Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
2016 Made in Iran, Kunstverein Konstanz, Constance, Germany
2016 Made in Iran, AB Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
2016 RTL – LTR, Gallery Forum, Wels, Austria
2016 RTL – LTR, Artmark Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2016 Assar Artists’ Annual Group Exhibition, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2015 The Secrets of Eternity, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2015 Contemporary Art of the Middle East, Los Angles Country Museum of Art(LACMA), Los Angles, USA
2015 Jahan Pahlavan Takhti, Ahwaz Museum of Contemporary Art, Ahwaz, Iran
2014 Neo-Traditionalism in Contemporary Iranian Art (Approaches to Tradition), Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
2013 2Q13, Woman Collectors, Woman Artists, Lloyds Club, London, UK
2013 Peace from the Bottom of My Art, Opera Gallery, London, UK
2012 The Other Half of Iran, SEM-ART Gallery, Monaco
2012 Inbetweeness, Mah-e Mehr Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 No Subject...!, 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2012 The Elephant in the Dark, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India
2011 Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010 I Am Not Half the Man I Used to Be, Dar Al-Funoon Gallery, Kuwait
2010 Yek, do, se (1, 2, 3): Three Contemporary Iranian Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, USA
2010 Recent Self Portraits, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010 Iran Inside Out, Farjam Collection, Dubai, UAE
2010 AB Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
2009 Dar Al-Funoon Gallery, Kuwait, Kuwait
2009 Routes II, Waterhouse and Dodd, London, UK
2009 Off the Loom: The Persian Carpet in Contemporary Iranian Art, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2009 Self Portraits, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2009 Masques of Shahrazad, Mall Gallery, London, UK
2008 Planting New Roots, Dar Al-Funoon Gallery, Kuwait, Kuwait
2007 32 Oskou, Students of Aydin Aghdashloo, Iranian Artists' Forum, Tehran, Iran
2007 Broken Promises, Forbidden Dreams, Iran Heritage Foundation, London, UK
2007 Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2007 Wishes and Dreams, Iran's New Generation Emerges, Meridian International Center, Washington DC, USA
2007 Self Portrait, Society of Iranian Painters, Iranian Artists' Forum, Tehran, Iran
2003 Esfahan Museum of Contemporary Arts, Guest Artist of the Dena Group, Esfahan, Iran
2001 New Experiences, Society of Iranian Painters, Iranian Artists' Forum, Tehran, Iran
2001 Contemporary Iranian Art Exhibition, Ataturk Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey
2001 Contemporary Iranian Art Exhibition, Modern Art Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
2001 Contemporary Iranian Drawing Exhibition, Barg Gallery, Tehran, Iran
1999 Contemporary Iranian Drawing Exhibition, Barg Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Public Collections
2011 Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India
2009 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, USA
2007 Farjam Collection, Dubai,UAE
2002 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran,Iran
Other Activities
Biennales
2015 Venice Biennale (56th International Art Exhibition), Iran Pavillion, Venice, Italy
2000 5th Painting Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, Iran
1995 3rd Painting Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
Art Fairs
2016 Kunst Zurich 16, Zurich, Switzerland
2015 Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 ArtInternational Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 Paris Photo, Paris, France
2013 Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2013 Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2011 Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
2011 Contemporary Munich, Germany
2011 Art Scope, Basel, Switzerland
2010 Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey
2010 Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
2009 Paris Photo, Paris, France
2008 Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
