Amirali Ghasemi

Amirali
Ghasemi

curator
• media artist • graphic designer •

No.
1, 4th Milad St./ Dadman Blvd

Shahrak-e-Gharb,
Teheran 14686 – IRAN

tel:+(98)(21)
8807 7343

+(98)(21)
8807 3039

fax:
(+9821) 8857 9727

mobile:+(98)
912 122 3220

email:
amiralionly@gmail.com

mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\">education:

B.A. in Graphic Design, Azad University Tehran, Dec
2004

Various
curatorial workshops in Germany and The Netherlands, 2006-2009

mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\">membership:

IGDS (Iranian
Graphic Designers Society),
member since 2003

PRSIR (Public Relations Society of Iran), member since 2006

mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\">awards:

●    
Icograda
Excellence Award
9th Tehran International Poster biennial for designing \" group video
installation\' poster 2007

●    
Excellent award, 6th Seoul triennial of Asia
graphic poster, South Korea, 2006 

●    
Judges\' Special
Award,
Taiwan Intl. Poster Design \"Group Video Installation\" 2005, Taiwan,
China

●    
Top Ten Blog
Canada
\"Live From the Iris\" June 2002, Tehran, Iran

●    
2nd Prize of Web
& Multimedia,
7th Biennial of Iranian Graphic Designers Artworks, \"www.iranianprofile.com\" March 2002, Tehran, Iran

●    
5th Prize, Tokoha CG Art
(computer-generated art) Exhibition, \"Portrait of Forough: an Iranian
Poetess\" Jan 2002, Tokoha Museum of Art, Tokoha, Japan

Residencies:

Villa Kuriosum,
Aug-Sep
2012 / Berlin – Germany

Carvansararai,
Sep
2011/ Istanbul – Turkey -

S.C.E.N.E.5, March- June
2009 Berlin – Germany

Solo exhibitions:

2009

Amirali\'s Medical Profile, Azad
Art Gallery, Video, Photography, Text and Installation, Tehran, Iran

2008

Amirali\'s hard disk re-visited, installation in progress/open studio, Parkingallery, Tehran,Iran

2007

Amirali\'s Hard Disk,
Photos/Graphics/Interactive works Nov 2007, Azad Gallery, Tehran

Day Dream sleeper, performance, 8th of Aug 2007, Azad Art
Gallery,Tehran.

Choose your background,
Performance + Photo shoot,
Mehrva art gallery,Tehran     

2005

Concealed & Exposed (coffee shop ladies) photo + multimedia
installation –Cafe Aks, Tehran

2003

photos under the light,
graphic design exhibition –Salis Art Gallery, Tehran

2002

Ring the Bell performance –Tehran
Museum of Contemporary Art & Atbin Art Gallery, Tehran

2001

Amirali GHASEMI\'s Cloth Hangers, Collage, Photography & Installations
exhibition –Haft Samar Art Gallery, Tehran

1998

[private exhibition], Parkingallery –Tehran, 1998

Group
exhibitions: 

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Double Take, line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\">photography Exhibition ( Curated by Fereydoun Ave) Khak
Gallery - Tehran

font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\">The Light from the Middle East, "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal\">V&A Museum, London Curated by Dr, Marta
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white\">(B)orders, Orders, (Dis)orders, mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:#1D1D1D;background:white;mso-highlight:white;font-weight:normal\">Raf
Gallery, Tehran.Oct. (curated by mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:normal\">Shay (Shaqayeq) Mazloom)mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\">Crucifixion, "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\">Mohsen Gallery (
Curated by Majid Abbasi Farahani)

font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\">The Iranian Pulse, "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal\">SESC Vila Mariana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
(curated by Marc Pottier)11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:#1D1D1D;background:
white;mso-highlight:white;font-weight:normal\">

font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\">It’s Normal!, "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal\">Villa Kuriosum, Berlin, Aug - Sep (curated
by Amirali Ghasemi & Friederike Berat )mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
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Gender and Exposure in Contemporary Iranian Photography, "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";color:#222222;font-weight:normal\">String Room Gallery, at Wells
College in Aurora, NY, 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal\">Aug -
Oct (curated by Andrea Fitzpatrick)mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
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The invisible present, 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal\">Camera
(at Stephan Bulger Gallery), Toronto - Canada, May (also curator)"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:
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Inbetweeness, line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal\">Mahe-mehr
Gallery,Tehran - May (curated By Hamid Severi9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
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Artexpo-ish,line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal\"> Aria
art gallery, Tehran - April (curated by Mehran Raad )"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:
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Gender and Exposure in Contemporary Iranian Photography, "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal\">Gallery 44, Toronto - Canada, May - June
(curated by Andrea Fitzpatrick)11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
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Ciphers: Tension with Tradition in Contemporary Iranian Photography, "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal\">Gallerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada, April
- Jun (curated by Andrea Fitzpatrick)mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
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On paper (photo) without name, 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal\">Parkingallery
Projects Tehran, March (also curator)mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
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No Subject, line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal\">1x1
gallery Dubai, Feb - March (Curated by Vida Heydari)"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"\">

The Elephant in The Dark,11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal\"> Devi
Art Foundation, Jan -May (also curator)mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
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Salon Murid Bosh, line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal\">(curated
by Boris Duhm) Janline-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\">

Mengerzeile Featuring Salon Murid Bosh, mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
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font-weight:normal\">Kunsthalle M3, Künstlerhaus Mengerzeile, Berlin, Jan -Feb
(curated by Boris Duhm)11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\">

2011

Freaks
to go, Action
and Show, Berlin Dec (curated by Friedrike Berat)

On paper without name, Parkingallery Projects Tehran (also curator)

The Iranian Pulse, Oi futuro Flamengo,
Rio de Janeiro, Sep - Oct, (curated by Marc Pottier)

The invisible present, Video section
of The Iranian Pulse, Oi futuro Flamengo,
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, Sep - Oct (also curator)

End of time, 2nd Contemporary art
exhibition, Site Specific
exhibition, Sanandaj, June (also
co-curator)

Tanakora Parking: 2nd hand cloths sale + Short
Story Workshop, Parkingallery, Tehran, April (also curator)

The MENASA Studio Dispatches. Dubai.UAE March

5 unusual encounters, Networking Event, Artist
talks and presentations of recent non conventional art projects in Public
Sphere. Mohsen art gallery,Tehran, March (also curator)

Factory Garden Project, Yazd - Iran,
Feb

13x18 Etemad Art Gallery, Tehran -
Iran, March, (curated by Iman Safaei) 

Selfdom/a personal project Haftsamar Art Gallery Jan. (curated by Yashar Samimi Mofakham)

Television Mohsen Art Gallery Jan. (curated by Peyman Shafizadeh)

2010

Kitchen,  Moshen Art Gallery Dec.
(curated by Behnam Kamrani) 

Golanmausi - Analogismus, Positions
of the Analogue  Berber1, Berlin. June

Circus Charivari’s Freak Show, Berlin, Performances and
interactive installations, June

12Cubed Group Installation Show, Aun Art Gallery, Tehran.
May (curated by Houman Mortazavi and Padideh Azin)

A Coulorful day, Iranian Artists\' Forum, Tehran.
May

2009 

The Other, Mohsen Art Gallery Dec.
(curated by Ali Ettehad) 

Khatkeshi in Berlin, Typo Berlin 2009 and DESIGN
TRANSFER, May-June (curated by Pantea Lachin)

Looped and layered, Thomas Erban Gallery New York,
May June

50 Theater posters from 10
Designers Moulavi
Hall Tehran, April Curated by Arash Tanhaei and Majid Kashani

Autoportraits Azad art Gallery Tehran,
April, (curated by Ali Ettehad)

Urban Jealousy in Belgrade , April (also co-curator)

Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie
, Darmstädt,
Germany April

Instant Melancholia , Raum 121 , Frankfurt, Germany

2008

Urban Jealousy In Berlin The 1st Roaming Biennial of
Tehran, Traveling exhibition Nov. -Dec. Berlin Germany

Diptychs Group photo exhibition, Mehrva
Gallery Tehran, Iran Nov.

Khatkeshi presentation of an
experimental typography workshop, Azad art gallery, Tehran, Iran (curated by Pantea
Lachin)

Out of place? Galleri Box, Göteborg, Swedenmso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\"> (curated by transitpassengers)

Paradigmes and Absence Entre Totalité Group exhibition at La Galerie AL/MA,
Montpellier. Francefont-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\"> (curated bymso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\"> Milan Tutunovic)

Ey! Iran Contemporary Iranian
Photography Lopdell House Gallery. Auckland, New Zealandmso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\"> (cuarated by Mandana Mapar)

Personal Maps Interactions with urban
spaces, A black box project,Winterthur,
Switzerlandfont-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\"> (curated by transitpassengers)

Lion under the rainbow,mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\"> Contemporary art from Tehran,mso-fareast-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"\"> parallel exhibition of ART
ATHINA 2008. Athens, Greece. (curated by Alexandros Georgiou)

Gen X Posters by Young Iranian
Graphic Designers York University, canada (curated By Farhad Fozouni)

The MASS, Touring Group Photography
Exhibition, Iranian artist house,Tehran, Iran9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
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2007

Choose your background 2, 1st symposium of visual
anthropology, Tehran University

The MASS, Group Photography Exhibition,
Gorgan, Iran (curated by Mohsen Rasoulov)

Wandering masters 2,Sudbury, Ontario, Canada (curated
by Sam Shahsahabi)

Radical Drawing 2Tehran Art Gallery, Tehran,
Iran (curated by Vahid Sharifian)

Rokhsat, Group poster exhibition, azad
art gallery, Tehran (curated By Farhad Fozouni)

CARAVAN Pittori Iraniani,Shiraz Art
Gallery,Venice, Italy

IRAN GENTE STRADE PAESAGGI, Mestre, Centro Culturale
Candiani,Italy

Remote Fairy Tales, web performance as a
participant of Æther9, MAAC,
Brussels, Belgium

Tehran Berlin work in progress
2007,Tehran
/ Berlin (also co-organizer)

RETRACING TERRITORIES, FRI-ART Festival, Fribourg,
Switzerland (curated by Susann Wintsch)

Wishes and Dreams, Meridian International Center
Washington, USA

Never been to Houston, Slide show, Lawndale Art
Center, Houston, Texas, USA. (curated by Andrea Grover and Jon Rubin)

In between, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg.

Limited access, Audio-video installation, Azad
art gallery,Tehran (also curator)

Imaginary Enemy 02: Iphigenia Tillieu + guests
Screening/Exhibition, Recyclart /Brussels. (also co-curator with)

2006

I don\'t know
what else to do with myself!*, AK28, Stockholm.
December (curated by esther lu and adnan yildiz)

Exociti III Installation, November, Baodo
im Nil, Graz, Austria

Ey Iran, Contemporary Iranian
Photography,September-November, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland,
Australia (cuarated by Mandana Mapar)

Eastern
Expressway, Evangelische Stadtakademie
Frankfurt, September- October Frankfurt, Germany

The critical eye, Neuer Kunstverein
Aschaffenburg e.V.,September-November, 
Aschaffenburg, Germany
(cuarated by Elisabeth Claus)

Exociti,  street art project,September,
Istanbul, Turkey. (curated by Övül Durmuşoğlu)

Deeper
Depression,
Azad Art Gallery & Tehran University Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran (also curator)

Wandering
Masters,White Mountain Academy of the
Arts, Ontario, Canada. (curated by Sam Shahsahabi)

2005