Mitra Tabrizian was born in Tehran, Iran, and lives and works in London
Selected Exhibitions
2021
Epic Iran:5000 years of culture, V&A , 29th may
Reflections; contemporary art of the Middle East & North Africa, British museum, May 17th15th August.
‘Reach the world: on Iranian photography’, Center d'Art La Fabrique in Toulouse (Nov 17, to December 17)
2020
Online exhibitions during the lockdown: ‘art at home’‘ Smithsonian museum, June (https://asia.si.edu/collections/contemporary-art/the-studio/mitra-tabrizian-you-dont-knowwhat-nights-are-like)
‘Cabinet of Remedies’ a selection from Hundred Heroines https://hundredheroines.org/cabinet-of-remedies-exhibition/ (featuring ‘You don’t know what nights are like?’) May
2019
‘My Iran: Six Women Photographers’ Smithsonian museum, US (10 August, 2019 –9 Feb 2020) ‘Women in Photography; A History of British Trailblazers , the Lightbox, a public gallery& museum, Surrey, UK, (30 January–2 June)
2018
‘Crossing Lines’ a selection from the Arts Council Collection’, Highlanes Gallery, Ireland (24th Nov- 26th Jan 2019) The Insider’ (video art) with text by Booker Prize Winner, Ben Okri –commissioned to accompany Albert Camus’s ‘The Outsider’, adapted for stage by Ben Okri, the Print Room at the Coronet, (14 Sep–13 Oct) & British museum ‘‘London Nights’, Museum of London, 11 May-11 Nov ‘Beyond the documentary’ a selection from the collection, Museum of London, 11 May-11 Nov. ‘The Rise Art’ exhibition of nominees for the global artist 8th -26th Feb, House of Vans, London solo show ‘Gallery de montfort university’ (13th Sept- 27th Oct)
2017
Double Coding, a selection from Mudam Collection (June 17th-September 10th), Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean ‘you don't know what nights are like?’ billboard project (commissioned by Art on the underground), Southwark station, Jan.2017 -Dec. 2018
2016
‘Iranian voices, recent acquisitions of works on paper’, British Museum (26 November -2016 -2 April 2017) ‘Iran Contemporary Art Biennale’, Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran (22-31 July 2016) touring to Abadan contemporary art museum (sept.) and Isfahan contemporary art museum (Nov.)
2015
‘Looking back’ , at the 56th Venice Biennial, the Iran Pavilion ( 9th May -22nd November 2015) ‘Islamic Art Now’, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),The Los Angeles (1st Feb.- jan. 2016)
2014
‘Look at me, Portraiture from Manet to Present’, Leila Heller Gallery, N.Y. (May 06- August 29) Recalling the Future: Iranian Contemporary Art After the Revolution of 1979 BRUNEI GALLERY, SOAS– January-March, London
2013
Solo show, The Wapping Project Bankside, London (Oct. 25- jan. 30) D'un discours Ellen Gallery, Montreal (Nov 2013-Jan 2014) Solo show, Fondazione Fotografia, Italy (April 20 - June 23) Safar/ Voyage, MOA, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver (April 20- September 15) ‘Economy’, Stills (Edinburgh) and the Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), (January 19 – April 21, 2013) ‘Earth and Elsewhere’ Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, Australia, (may-july)
2012
Solo show, The Wapping Project Bankside, London (21 Sept.- 2 Nov.) ‘Light from Middle East’, Victoria and Albert Museum (13 November 2012 – 7 April 2013) Solo show, Leila Heller Gallery, N.Y. ((7th June- 7th July) ‘Iranian Pulse’, SESC, São Paulo, Brazil (Jan.- March)
2011
Solo show, ‘Project B, Contemporary Art’ , Milan (Feb.-April) ‘Regarding Iran: Acquiescence and Conceptual Poetics, Guild Gallery, Mumbai (March-April) ‘Zendegi’, Beirut Exhibition Centre, (April-May) ‘Tension’, Hezy Cohen gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (June- July) ‘Nothing in the World but Youth’, Turner Contemporary, Uk (Sept-Jan 2012)
2010
‘21st Century: Art in the First Decade', Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, Australia (Dec - April 2011) ‘Play list’ Jönköpings läns museum, Sweden (sept –jan.2011) International Festival of photography, Fotojatka, Prague, Czech Republic, traveling to Budweis, Brno and other cities (April- July) ‘In and out’, Project B, Contemporary Art , Milan (Feb – April)
2009
solo show, Albion gallery, London (Jan- Feb.) Theatre of the Real, Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium (June-Sept.) Translation/Tarjama, Queens Museum of Art, N.Y. (May –Sept.) The End: Analyzing Art in Troubled Times, Andy Warhol Museum N.Y. (Feb-may) ‘L'Iran Sans Frontiere’, Almine Rech gallery (June) Paris Iran, inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, N.y. (June- Sept.) traveling to DePaul University Museum, Chicago.
2008
Solo show Tate Britain, London (June- August) Solo show, Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin (June- Sept.) ‘Street and Studio: An Urban History of Photography’, Tate Modern, London(May- August) traveling to Museum of Folkwang (Oct 08- Jan 09) Sothyby’s, London (Oct.)
2007
C International Photo, Phillips de Pury, N.Y. (Sept.) Wall house project (on the work of an American architect John Hejduk), Noorderlicht, gallery, Holland and Wall House Foundation (June) FotoArtFestival, Poland (Oct.)
2006
Solo show, Moderna Mussset (Museum of Modern art) Stockholm, Sweden 10th Venice Biennale of architecture, Italian Pavilion Giardini di Castello, Italy ‘Voodoo Macbeth: a tribute to the work of Orson Welles’, De la Warr Pavilion, Contemporary Iranian photography, The House of Artists, Tehran Iran
2005
‘Safe: an exhibition of contemporary art’, Karlskrona Art, Gallery & Blekinge Museum, Sweden (catalogue – poster) ‘In the Shadow of Fallen Heroes’, Central Asian Biennale in Kyrgyzstan (catalogue)
2004
Solo Show, BBK, Bilbao, Spain – (catalogue) Solo show , Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (catalogue) Far Near Distance – `New Positions of Contemporary Iranian Artists’, the House of World Cultures Berlin, Germany (catalogue) ‘Veil’, The Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (catalogue ) ‘Lumo 04 triennaial of Contemporary Photography’, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Finland (catalogue –poster- T shirt)
2003
Solo show, Museum of Folkwang, Germany (catalogue) ‘Aletheia: The Real of concealment ‘, Art Museum, Goteborg, Sweden (catalogue - poster) ‘Veil’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Uk (touring in UK)
2001
‘Inhabiting’, Gallery Lelong , NY. USA
1999
‘London: Post-Colonial City’, Architectural Association, London,UK
1998
Minimal Utopia (Solo show), Camera Austria Gallery, Graz, Austria (poster)
1996
‘Gender- Beyond Memory’, Metropolitan Museum of Photography’, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue) ‘Family, Nation, Tribe, Community Shift’, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
1995
‘The Outburst of Signs: Art at the Interfaces of Gender & Race’, Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrabe, Munich, Germany (catalogue)
1994
‘Le Shuttle’, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (catalogue) ‘Public Domain’, Art Centre Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain (catalogue) Solo show’, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (touring in Finland) ‘Solo show’, ‘Gallery Index: Centre of Photography’, Stockholm, Sweden (touring in Sweden)
1993
‘Mistaken Identities’(catalogue): University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Museum of Folklwang, Essen, Germany Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
1992
‘History Present’, Museum of Folkwang, Essen, Germany ‘Fine Material for a Dream....? A Reappraisal of Orientalism:19th &20th Century Fine Art & Popular Culture’, Harris Museum, Preston (touring in UK - catalogue)
1991
‘Shocks to the System: Social & Political Issues in Recent British Art’ Royal Festival Hall, London (touring in UK - catalogue) ‘Public Images’, Forum Stadtpark, graz, Austria
1990
‘Spectacular Women’, Film in the Cities, Saint Paul, USA ‘Contemporary Social Documentary’, Fotobienal, ‘Art History Centre’, Vigo, Spain (touring in Spain - catalogue)
1989
‘Mysterious Coincidences’(catalogue): The Photographers' Gallery, London Fotogallery, Cardiff Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia 3 Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Long Beach Museum, Los Angeles Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand ‘Shifting Focus’ (catalogue): Serpentine Gallery, London Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol Cambridge Darkroom , Cambridge City Museum & Art Gallery (Stoke on Trent) Newport Museum & Art Gallery (Newport) Harris Museum & Art gallery (Preston) ‘Through the Looking Glass: Photographic Art in Britain,1945- 89' Barbican Art Gallery, London (touring in UK - catalogue) ‘The Boundaries of Photography’, Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland (catalogue) ‘Some Notions on Marginality’, Grey Art Gallery, NYU Study Centre, New York
1988
‘The Other Body’, Photographic Resource Centre, Boston,USA (catalogue) Billboards: New Castle, Derry, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield - Canada ‘International Photography’, Metronom, Barcelona, (catalogue) Reflections on the Media, Perspektief, Rotterdam Towards the Photograph as a Vulgar Document, Optica Gallery, Montreal (catalogue) ‘Sexual Difference Both Sides of the Camera’, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York (catalogue) Sol.o show, Corner House, Manchester (one woman show) Solo show, ‘National Museum of Photography, Film and Television’, Bradford (travelling in UK - catalogue) ‘The Body Politic’, The Photographers' Gallery, London (touring in Europe & USA - catalogue)
1987
Solo show, Chateau d'Eau Gallery, Toulouse, France (touring in Europe) ‘International Photography’, Arles International Gallery, Arles (catalogue)‘Magnificent Obsession’ - ARC Gallery, Toronto (touring in Canada - catalogue) Solo show, ‘Screen Memories’, Perspectief, Rotterdam, Holland (catalogue) ‘Impostors’, Interim Art Gallery, London (catalogue) ‘Towards a Bigger Picture’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, (catalogue). Solo show, Gallery 400, Chicago (touring in USA & Europe) ‘European Women Photographers Today’, Torino otografia, Torino,Italy (catalogue) ‘Beyond the Purloined Image’, The Riverside, London ‘The Way We Live Now: Beyond Social Documentary’, PS1 Gallery, New York ‘Phototextes’, Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva (catalogue) ‘Solo Show, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh ‘Five Photographers’; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (touring in Europe - catalogue) ‘The Actress’; The Photographers' Gallery (touring in UK.)
Films
2018
The Insider (6 min), with text by Booker Prize Winner, Ben Okri, commissioned by The Print Room at the Coronet to accompany Albert Camus’ ‘The Outsider’, adapted for stage by Ben Okri, Coronet theatre, London 14 Sep–13 Oct. 2018 also screened at: British museum, 7th Nov. 2019 Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2020 AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center | American Film Institute, 4th Feb. 2020 ‘Beyond Words’, French Literature festival, with Kamel Daoud, (the winner of 2015 Prix Goncourt du premier roman) and Ben Okri (Booker Prize winner). The Institut Français, 17 May 2022
2017
Gholam, (British/Iranian feature film), Director & Co-writer (94 min) UK theatrical release, March – June 2018 Barbican & Regent street cinema (London) Home (Manchester) Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle) Errol Flynn Cinema (Northampton) New Park Cinema(Chichester) The Depot Cinema (Lewes) Strode Theatre (Street Somerset) Pier Pavillion cinema (Penarth),Wales
Vod distribution Mubi, UK (vod), April 18-May 18, 2018 BFI player (with introduction by Mark Kermode), March 2019-march 2022 4 Amazon prime, Itunes, Sony; Uk, US Canada, European countries, South Asia from April 2019 Other screenings: Architectural association, London 12 Dec 2018 MFA Art Practice at School of Visual Arts, N.Y., March. 2019 the Smithsonian Institution, Washington 31st Jan. 2020 AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center | American Film Institute, 4th Feb. 2020 2004 Writer & Director of The Predator (35 mm, 28 minutes), AHRB Innovation Awards (Arts & Humanities Research Board)
1993
Writer & Director of Journey of No Return, (16mm, 23 minutes), British Film Institute,
1990
Writer & Director of The Third Woman (16 mm, 20 minutes), British Film Institute,
Film Festivals
2017 Gholam (a British/Iranian feature film) 2018
UK theatrical release Film festivals:
the 43rd Seattle International film festival, US (May 18 - June 11, 2017)
the 50th WorldFest, international film fest’ Houston, US ,(20th-29th April, 2017) – the film won ‘Platinum Remi Award’ for First Feature - and the lead Shahab Hosseini was nominated for Best Actor
the 17th East End Film Festival (2ed June- 2ed July, 2017) the 17th Diaspora Film Festival Toronto, Canada (2th – 6th Nov. 2017)
the 7th Gold Coast International Film Festival, N.Y. (8th -14th Nov. 2017) the 17th East End Film Festival (2ed June- 2ed July, 2017) Teatri Di Vita, Centro Internazionale per le Arti della Scena ,Bologna -Italy (August 2018)
2005-09
The Predator
Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, France (Feb05) Film Society, LA, USA (June 05) Exile Film Festival, Sweden (October 05) Cinema East Film Festival, N.Y. (Nov. 05) Tiburon International Film Festival, USA (March 06) Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival (Jan 06) Malta International Short Film Festival (July 06)
Other venues:
‘Far from a deceitful world’, Saarijärvi Musuem, Finland (June 05) Istanbul photo Biennale, Turkey (Oc t. 06) Moderna Mussset (Museum of Modern art) Stockholm, Sweden (Nov. 06) the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (March 07) International Photography Festival (ULIS photo FEST), Istanbul, Turkey (May 2007) Tate Britain, (June 08)
Iran: New Voices, Barbican Cinema, London (Dec 08) Queens Museum of Art, N.Y. (May –Sept. 09) Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, N.Y. (Oct. 09) Guild Gallery, Mumbai (March-April 2011) Hezi Cohen gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (June- July 2011) Oi Futuro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Sept.-Oct. 2011) Diasporas’, The Stedman Gallery, Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, The State University of New Jersey, USA, (October 15 – December 15, 2012), Fondazione Fotografia, Italy (April 20 - June 23, 2012) Barbican center, London, 2012
1993 –96
Journey of No Return, distributed by BFI
Toronto International Film Festival,Canada Turin International Film Festival, Italy Birmingham International Film & Television Festival, UK. Berlin International Film Festival, Germany 5 ‘The World is My Home’ The International Exile Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden Festival of Iranian Cineaste in Diaspora (FICD), touring: Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto ‘Women in Hollywood’s Chair’, Chicago, USA
1990 –1994
The Third Woman distributed by BFI
Creteil International Women’s Film Festival, France. Chicago International Film Festival, USA. BP Expo, London, UK. Norwich Women’s Film Festival, UK. Melbourne Film Festival Australia, (selected for Kino awards). Birmingham International Film & Television Festival, UK. Foyle Film festival, Ireland Leeds International Film Festival
‘The World is My Home’ The International Exile Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden Festival of Iranian Cineaste in Diaspora (FICD), touring: Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto
1993 – 99
The Third Woman & Journey of no Return have been shown & discussed at:
UK venues: Metro Cinema, BFI Summer Shorts Thames Valley University, MA in Cultural Studies Leeds University Hall Place Studios, World University Services London School of Economics London University, School of Oriental & African studies Sheffield University, Luton University, ‘Women & Islam’, Institute of Contemporary Arts ‘New British Cinema’, Institute of Contemporary Arts
International venues:
University Art Museum, Berkeley, USA Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm,Sweden Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Institute of Contemporary Arts), Berlin, Germany The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany. International Conference of Photography, Graz, Austria Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography’, Japan ‘...east of here..: (re)imagining the ‘orient’, YYZ (gallery) , Toronto, Canada ‘reinventing britain’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, USA Museum of Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Collections
British Museum, London, UK Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Uk Museum of London, UK Smithsonian Institution, Washington, US The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA National Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Musée d'Art Moderne , Luxembourg Moderna Mussset, Stockholm, Sweden Museum of Folkwang, Essen, Germany Zoroastrian Cultural Centre, Paris, France Sparkasse Essen, Germany Stichting Fotografie Noorderlicht, Netherlands The Arts Council of Great Britain, London,Uk Art Fund Collection, London, UK Art on the underground Collection, London, UK National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA And some major private collections
6 Awards (and grants)
2021
The Royal Photographic Society, Honorary Fellowship,
2020
selected as one of RPS ‘Hundred Heroines: Celebrating Women in Photography Today’.
2019
BFI (British Film institute) development fund
2016
‘Art on the underground’ (commission) 2015 Iran Heritage foundation
2013
Royal Academy ‘Rose Award for Photography’
2005
Arts & Humanities Research Center (AHRC) Research Leave Grant The Arts Council, UK
2004
Arts & Humanities Research Center (AHRC) Grants in the Creative & Performing Arts The Arts Council . UK
2003
Arts & Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Innovation Awards
1996
London Arts Board
1993
British Film Institute
1989
Greater London Arts (GLA), film award British Film Institute Photographers' Gallery Trust Fund
1987
Metro Billboard Project, Newcastle, UK Greater London Arts, photography award
1985
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, photography award UK Greater London Arts, photography award Arts Council photography award, UK
Selected Publications Monographs
2019
Off screen (with essays by Parveen Adams, David Bate, Olivier Richon and Ben Okri) Kerber Verlag (Oct.)
2012
Another Country (preface by Homi Bhabha), Hatje Cantz
2008
‘This is That Place’, (with an introduction by TJ Demos) Tate Catalogue
2004
Beyond the limits (with an introduction by Stuart Hall), Steidl
1990
Correct Distance (with an introduction by Griselda Pollock) Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK.
Articles & Photo-Essays
2022
Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945, Gerry Badger in collaboration with the Martin Parr Foundation, foreword by Martin Parr, Thames & Hudson May
2020
Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa, Venetia Porter with Charles Tripp and Natasha Morris, The British Museum Press, Oct
2019
Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art, Fereshteh Daftari Bloomsbury Publishing, 5th feb
2018
Modern and Contemporary Art of Iran and Its Diaspora, Fereshteh Daftari I.B.Tauris scholarly presse
2017
The Afkhami Collection of Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art, Phaidon, April 2017
2016
Painting with Light:Photography at the Freer|Sackler,authors, Carol Huh and David Hogge, ed by Jane Lusaka and Joelle Seligson, Smithsonian Institution publication -on the highlights of their collections
2009
‘City, London, 2008’ cover of Portfolio Magazine, Special 50th Edition, celebrating 21 years of publication,No 50, Nov. 2009
‘Different, Sames,New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art’, Ed Hossein Amirsadeghi , Themes & Hudson, 2009
2008
‘Tehran 2006’ in ‘C International Photo Art Magazine’, Issue no 7 Border (on Iranians in exile), in Iranian Photography Now, Rose Issa (ed), Hatje Cantz Verlag Naked City, in Horizons, Elena Foster and Antonio Sanz (eds) Ivory Press (Nov.)
2007
Border (on Iranians in exile) newformations, N 62, Interviewed by Hamid Naficy in An Accented Cinema: Exile and Diasporic Film making, Hamid Naficy, Princeton U Press
2000-02
‘Beyond the Limits’ in the following books & journals: - Different: a historical context Stuart Hall & Mark Sealy (eds) , Phaidon Press ‘Futures: the journal of policy, planning & futures studies’ Ziauddin Sardar (ed) ‘Art’, German magazine, N11, 2001
1998-99
Minimal Utopia (photo essay) in the following books & journals: 7 Formation of Present (translation), Hubertus Von Amelunxen & Antje, Krause-Wahl (eds), Muthesius Hochschule The Third Text, , Rasheed Araeen (ed), Routlege, london, Photographers International’, Juan I-Jong (ed), Taiwan , Camera Austria, N 62 / 63
1998
‘The Blues’ in ‘Det Finns Granser’ (‘There Exist Borders’: translation from Swedish),Wiwi Samuelsson
1995- 98
Surveillance (photo essay) in the following journals & books: The Politics Behind the Nude ‘(translation), a book by Michiko Kasahara Liberating Art History (translation), Hiroko Hagiwar (Ed), Jijitsushn - sha,Tokyo - The paper was initially published in New Formations, N 6 - 1990 & reprinted in Camera Austria, N 49
1992
‘The Black As Such: Race & Representation’, Camera Austria, N 40 -reprinted in ‘Public Domain’ (translation), Jorge Ribalta (Ed) Departament de Cultura,Barcelona, 1994 -
1988
‘The Blues ‘, New Formations, N 6 ‘Correct Distance: On the Femme Fatale’, Block, N 10 ‘Governmentality: On the Discourse of Advertising’, Screen ‘College of Fashion’ (photo-essay), Screen Education, N 4
Photographic work published in:
British Journals:
The Observer - British Journal of Photography - Camerawork, Creative Camera - Ten.8 - UnderCut - The Media Education Journal - Feminist Review- Screen Education - Screen - Formations - New Formations – Block –The Third Text- Tank –Next level - Portfolio
International Journals:
Exposure - Aperture - Artforum International – New Yorkers Art AsiaPacific, (USA) Public – Parachute (Canada) 'Image’, (Finland) Bildtidningen – Bang, (Sweden) Camera Austria (Austria) Art - (Germany) Photographers International (Taiwan) Das Magazin (Switzerland ) Art and Photography (Iran 08) Canvas: art and culture from Middle East, (Dubai 08) Extra Magazine, (Belgium 09) Mister Motley, (Netherlands 09) Magazine 1, (Bulgaria 09) Art, Auction and Modern Painters, (N.Y. USA, 2010) Portfolio mag Art Press, Paris(France, 2010) Artetc, (India, 2010) Contemporary Art Media Journal (Russia, 2011) ‘Lalit Kala Contemporary’ (Indian Art Journal), No 53, 2012, La Maleta, No 4, March –April , 2014 (Spanish journal) C Photo, VO 9, Nov. 2014 (It is a bilingual edition (English/Spanish) published twice a year) Saudi Aramco World, Sept/Oct issue, 2014 PhotoDOT, South Korean mag, 2015 Pylot mag UK, June 2017 BlackQube, Mag , German, June, 2017 PRÅTOCOLLUM Art Journal, issue 6 ,German, Oct. 2019 Namacheko CORDYENE Journal, Japan, August 2019 - ‘The -In-Betweener’ , interviewed by Gemma Padley in relation to Royal Photographic Society ‘Honorary Fellowship award’, RPS magazine, March/April, 2022
Online publications and interviews during the lockdown 2020/2022: Source magazine; ‘across cultures, special edition,’ ‘in conversation with Roberta mac Grath, discussing the new book off screen and some previous works, issue-101, 25th June (published both in printed mag and online) - the photographic series; ‘Film stills’ & You don’t know what nights are like? in Fotografiska International, Stockholm, Sweden, May https://www.fotografiska.com/artists/mitra-tabrizian/ 8 -Interviewed for ‘Woman Crush Wed’ in, ‘Musee Magazine: vanguard of photography culture’ (New York based online photography magazine) Musée Magazine (19,Feb) https://museemagazine.com/features/2020/1/16/ksn97k9zc49a3uh79th5yzijh2h1rb - ‘my most difficult image’, interviewed by writer and producer Jane Quinn, Hundred Heroines (march) https://hundredheroines.org/featured/mitra-tabrizian-my-mostdifficult-image/ - mitra tabrizian discusses the film ‘the insider’ and her book off screen with Roberta McGrath , Coronet theatre (June,) (https://www.thecoronettheatre.com/whats-on/coronet-inside-out/mitra-tabrizian/) - mitra tabrizian , discusses her book off screen -‘Artist spotlight series’ Leila Heller gallery, July 7th , http://ennouncement.exhibit-e.com/t/y-7ED79AC15D8A2655 ZH Magazine; is an illustrative review of Persian Arts & Culture in the context of Visual Arts and Contemporary Literature, distributed globally, (launched Nov 9th) https://zhmagazine.com/mitra-tabrizian/
Books:
-Another Country: British Documentary Photography From 1945 by Gerry Badger, themes and Hudson , May, 2022
-Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa, Venetia Porter with Charles Tripp and Natasha Morris, Oct 2020
- Global Photography: A Critical History, Author Terri Weissman, editor, Sophie Tann Bloomsbury Academic Publishers , June 2019
-Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art, Fereshteh Daftari Bloomsbury Publishing, 5th feb, 2019
- Making it Up, Marta Weiss,V&A Publishing and Thames & Hudson, Autumn 2018
- Gender in Photography 1991-2017, Michio Kasahara, Ed Maiko Kiyota,Feb. 2018
- The Afkhami Collection of Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art, Phaidon Press April 2017
-‘Actors, networks, theories / D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblance’ Author: Vincent Bonin Editors: France Choinière and Michèle Thériault published by OPTICA, centre d’art contemporain in partnership with Dazibao and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery. UK june 16 | US/CAN july 2016
- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Henry Louis Gates and David Bindman (eds) Harvard University Press, 2014
- Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s, Kobena Mercer, Duke University Press, 2014
- A Guide to Collecting Contemporary Photography, Jocelyn Phillips, Thames and Hudson, 2011
- Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab world and Iran ‘, Saeb Eigner, Merrell Publishers 2010 -2009 ‘City, London, 2008’ cover of Portfolio Magazine, Special 50thEdition, celebrating 21years of publication., No 50, Nov. 2009
-Different, Sames: new perspective in contemporary Iranian art, ed Hossein Amirsadeghi, Trans Globe Publishing Ltd 2009
-Iranian Photography Now, ed Rose Issa, Hatje Cantz, 2008 book cover for Saubere Verhältnisse a novel by the Swedish author Marie Hermanson published by Suhrkamp Verlag (2005)
- Art & Feminism, Helena Reckitt (ed), Phaidon Press (Oct.) This book is part of a series entitled '20th Century Source Books'(2000)
- Terra Infirma - Geography's Visual Culture, Irit Rogoff, Routledge (2000) - The Image & Visual Culture, Jessica Evans (ed), Open University (1999) - The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography & the Everyday, John Roberts , MUP 1998
- Visual and Other Pleasures, Laura Mulvey, Macmillan,1987
-‘Post-Modernism & the Question of Identity’, ICA Documents, N 6,
- Vision and Difference, Griselda Pollock, Routledge 1988
- Female Desire, Rosalind Coward
- Photography Politics: Two, - Patricia Holland, Jo Spence and Simon Watney (ed), Comedia Publishing Group,
Talks and Workshops
2020
In conversation with the chief curator Carol Huh of the exhibition; ‘My Iran: Six Women – 9 Photographers’ which took place on the site at Smithsonian museum US (10 August, 2019 – 9 Feb2020).
‘Off Screen: discussion of the most recent photographic book, and the film Gholam’ ,Ecole nationale supérieure-Louis-Lumière, Paris, 12th June
2019
‘Gholam and other stories’ with Ben Okri’, British museum, 3rd Nov. 2018 ‘In conversation with Parveen Adams’. Series: ‘Analysis: Drawing Out Practice’. Organised by Parveen Adams & Mark Cousins, AA School of Architecture, 16 Nov. ‘ Dark is the Night: in Conversation’, panel discussion, exploring different aspects of London at night, Museum of London, 9th Nov.
1987 -2013
London: The Photographer's Gallery - Institute of Contemporary Arts - Sir John Cass School of Art - Harrow College - Royal College of Art - Chelsea School of Art - St.Martin's School of Art - Goldsmiths College of Art - London College of Printing- Black Art Gallery - Serpentine Gallery – Brighton University - Thames Valley University – London University- Tate Modern – Tate Britain – British Museum
Others:
UK
Arnolfini (Bristol) - Portfolio Gallery (Edinburgh) - Metro Billboard Project (Newcastle) - Coventry School of Art - Leeds Women's Centre - Leeds University - Derby Master Photography Workshop - Derby M.A Course - Farnham University - Watershed (Bristol) – ‘Photoworks’ (Brighton) – Loughborough University
International:
Perspektief Gallery (Rotterdam) - Camera Austria (Graz) - The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York) - Gallery Index (Stockholm) - Museum of Modern Art (Stockholm) University of Stockholm - Institute of Contemporary Arts (Boston) – University of Santa Cruz (USA) – University of Santa Barbara (USA) - Göteborg Museum of Art, Sweden - Moderna Mussset Stockholm, Sweden
Conference Papers
2020
‘Symposium; Photography and its Nation’ (20th March) ‘Symposium; Terrain Vague, the Slade School of Fine Art (26-27 March)
2012
‘the Shadow of Language’ - Royal College of Art (21 -22 Nov.)
2011
‘The Power of Photography’, Birmingham University,( 1st-2nd Oct)
2009
symposium, ‘Staging, Manipulation and Photographic Truth‘, Westminster University (April )
2006
Global Photography Now: The Middle East’, Tate Modern (May) Istanbul photo Biennale, turkey (Oct.)
2005
‘90s Photography in Britain’, Tate Britain, (May)
2004
‘Digital Photography’, Folkwang museum, Essen, Germany (Oct.) ‘Tehran’s 9th Photo Biennale’, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, Iran (July.)
2000
Chairing conversation between Stuart Hall & Homi Bhabha, University of Westminster
1998
Muthesius Hochschule Forum, paper, Minimal Utopia, Keil ,Germany.
1997
‘Symposium on Photography XVII: Agents & Agencies: Photography between Discourse & Document’, paper, Minimal Utopia, Graz, Austria
1994
‘British Art’, discussing the film ‘Journey of No Return’ (BFI) Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin, Germany‘Post-Feminism & Art’, Paper ‘The Feminine Gaze’, University of Stockholm, Sweden
1993
‘History as Repetition, The Repetition of History - What is New?’(History, identity, Race, Nation), discussing the photographic work, ‘The Blues’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. ‘Haltbar, International Conference of Photography’, paper; ‘On the Notion of Critical Practice’, Dortmond, Germany ‘Feminist Art & Histories Network’, paper ‘On the Notion of Critical Practice’, Leeds University, UK
1992
‘Identities: Strategies of Representations’, Paper ‘The Black As Such: Race & Representation’ University of Santa Barbara, USA.
1991
‘Public Images’, paper, ‘The Black As Such: Race & Representation’ ‘Camera Austria, Graz, Austria.
1990
‘Displacements: Migration and Identity’, paper,‘Surveillance: Islam, Identity and the West’, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
1989
‘Foto Biennale: International Conference of Photography’, paper, ‘On Postmodernism’, Enschede,Holland. ‘Feminism & Art’, paper ‘Post - Feminism and the Third World Woman’ New Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1988
‘The Other Body: Cultural Debates in Contemporary British Photography’, paper ‘Correct Distance: On the femme fatale’, Boston University, Boston, USA 10 ‘Photography, Phantasy, Politics’, ‘Correct Distance: On the femme fatale’ Leeds University, UK. ‘International Conference of Photography‘, paper, ‘Racism and Representation’, Toronto, Canada
1986
‘Women's Photography Conference’, paper,‘Not Images of Women, But Woman as Image’, Battersea Arts Centre, London.
1987
‘Photography & Critical Theory’, paper ‘Not Images of Women, But Woman as Image’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK.