Education

• Master of Fine Arts in Painting, Azad University of Art, Tehran, Iran

• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• Water binds me to your name, Trotter & Sholer, curated by Klaudia Ofwona Draber, New York, NY
• Immigrant Flora: Rising Under, site-specific mural, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at, Ursinus College, PA

• All Water Has a Perfect Memory, commissioned for Wave Hill Garden, Bronx, NY

• Let the Garden Eram Flourish, curated by Smooth Ugochukwu Nzewi, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

• Garden Coup, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY

• The Garden of Heart's Delight, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran

• The Short Films of Bahar Behbahani, curated by Michael Rush, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
• Hidden Camera, Causey Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY

• Video 2012, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY

• The Chronicle of Her Innocence, NYU AD, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions and Biennales

• Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by the Foundation’s Director Hoor Al Qasimi, Sharjah, UAE

• Infinite Reminders, curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
• Mother River, online video series, Asia Society Museum, NY

• between the sun and the moon, 2nd Lahore Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan

• Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text, Franklin Street Works Gallery, Stamford, CT
• Trajectory: FiveMyles, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY
• What's Love Got To Do With It?, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
• Figuring The Floral, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
• Point of Departure: Open Sessions 15, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
• Short Shadows (two-person show), EMPAC, Troy, NY
• New Works, Arts Projects International, New York, NY

• (Up)rooted: A Study On Immigrant Flora (with Shamsy Behbahani), The Shed Space, Brooklyn, NY
• re:home, For Freedoms exhibition, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
• Active Forms, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
• Panorama Punjab, curated by Sarah Singh, Punjab, India

• In Between (Part II): So Far, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
• Clouds⇄Forests, 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art

• Why Not Ask Again, 11th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
• The 50 West Artist in Construction Residency Exhibition, Time Equities Inc.'s Art-in-Buildings, New York, NY
• Fireflies In The Night, video art screenings, curated by Barbara London, Robert Storr, Kalliopi Minioudaki Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
• MARKING 2: Drawings by Contemporary Artists from Asia, Art Projects International, New York, NY

• PULSE PLAY, Miami Beach, Miami, FL

• Vision of Three, Boom Gallery, Tehran, Iran
  
• Chain of Fire, The Prologue Exhibition for the 2016 Honolulu Biennial, Honolulu, HI
• Shortenin' Bread, A participatory installation in collaboration with Torkwase Dyson and Eyebeam, Governors Island, NY
• Portraits: Reflections by Emerging Iranian Artists, New York, NY
• Women: Experimental Films, The Shed Space, Brooklyn, NY

• Dangerous Beauty, Graffit Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
• Looks Like Torture, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY
• The Time In Children's Arts Initiative, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
• Six Women, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway

• all our relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
• Part of Me: mise en abyme, Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
• Aftermath, curated by Basak Senova, Akbank, Istanbul, Turkey

• TVDinner, Immigrant Movement International, curated by Sandra Skurvida, Queens Museum, New York, NY
• Iran Via Video Current, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
• Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, United Arab Emirates
• She Devil 5, MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
• Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

• Time After Time, curated by Taraneh Hemami, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
• SanctionedArray, Whitebox, New York, NY
• Exhaustion - The Jerusalem Show IV, Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, Israel
• Handheld History, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
• Open End, Witzenhausen Gallery, New York, NY
• The Stalking of Absence, curated by Shaheen Merali, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• International Women Artists Video Exhibition, Antrepo, Istanbul, Turkey
• Silverstein Photography Annual, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
• March Meeting, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
• Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery, New York, NY

• Brooklyn Artillery, Brooklyn, NY
• Masques of Shahrazad, Candlestar Gallery, London, England
• Women Forward, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY

• Tribeca Film Festival (Official Selection: "SUSPENDED"), New York, NY

• Wishes and Dreams, Meridian International Center, Touring the US

• 13th Annual International Exhibition of Women's Art (Best in Show), SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY

• Experimental Media Series, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

• The 6th Painting Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran

• Abim Group, Mimara Museum, Zagreb, Croatia

• Second Biennial of Contemporary Painting of the Islamic World, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
• Dena Group, Vigado Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
• Dena Group, Palaise des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
• Palazzo Reale di Napoli, Naples, Italy
• Dena Group, Iranian Contemporary, Christie's, London, England
• Fabian Gallery, Marbella, Spain
• Asian Art Biennial, Bangladesh
• Dena Group, Villa Del Cardinale, Naples, Italy

• The Silent Brush, the Ronald Reagan Building, Washington D.C.
• Art in the World 2000, organized by Beaux Art Magazine, Paris, France

Grants and Awards

• Sandra Kahn Alpert Visiting Artist Fellowship, Syracuse University, School of Art, NY

• Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant

• Creative Capital Award 2019, New York, NY
• Artist in Residence, EMPAC, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer, Troy, NY

• Open Sessions 2018-2020, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
• The Brown Foundation Fellows Program, based at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France

• MacDowell, Peterborough, NH

• Akrai Residency, Sicily, Italy

• Time Equities' Art-in-Buildings Residency, New York, NY

• Miranda Arts Project Space Residency, Port Chester, NY

• Casa dell'Arte International Art Residency Programme, Bodrum, Turkey
• Art Omi International Artists Residency, Ghent, NY (Made possible by The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant)

• Art and Culture Network Program Grant, Open Society Institute, Budapest

• Eyebeam, Finalist, New York, NY
• BRIC Media Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY

• Best in Show - 13th Annual International Exhibition of Women's Art, SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Teaching and Pedagogical Lectures

• The Impact of Public Art on the Urban Landscape, a panel discussion with artists Rico Gatson & Bahar Behbahani and MTA director of Art & Design Sandra Bloodworth, moderated by Lolita Cros, Bronx, NY
• Dialogues in the Diaspora: Bahar Behbahani and Farsad Labbauf, Asia Society Museum, NY
• The Sandra Kahn Alpert Visiting Artist, Studio Atelier, Spring 2022
• Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Department of Art - Studio Art, Queens College, CUNY, NY
• NAEA National Convention, National Art Education Association, New York, NY
• Water in a Shared World: Artist Perspectives (practice or action), In Collaboration with Asia Society and the NYU Brademas Center
• Lecture Series, Syracuse University: Visual and Performing Arts, School of Art
• Artist in Residence at The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
• NYC Crit Club, Guest Speaker, New York, NY
• Adjunct Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (Drawing, Painting), CUNY, New York, NY

• WAVE: Workshops on Activism and Visuality in Europe, in collaboration with visual critic Nicholas Mirzoeff and political sociologists, philosophers, activists, and artists
• Adjunct Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY (spring semester)

• Visiting Artist, Smith College Department of Art, Northampton, MA
• Meet at The Shed: Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates with Artist Bahar Behbahani; The Shed, New York, NY
• Adjunct Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY (spring semester)

• Artist Lecture, Smith College Department of Art, Northampton, MA
• Visiting Critics, MASSART, Studio for Interrelated Media, Boston, MA
• Artist Lecture, Department of Art and Art History, University at Albany / SUNY, NY

• A Scholars' Day on The Wagner Garden Carpet from the Burrell Collection, Scotland; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
• Visiting Critics, MASSART, Studio for Interrelated Media, Boston, MA
• Visiting Critics, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

• Student Workshop, The Well School, Peterborough, NH
• Student Workshop, ConVal Regional High School, Peterborough, NH

• Conversations and Connections: An Afternoon with Artist Bahar Behbahani, Hood Museum of Art; Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
• Garden Coup, Conversation with Shiva Balaghi, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
• Women Artists Panel, St. John's University, Queens, NY

• Visiting Critic, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY
• Saffron Tea, Screening and Q&A, East Bay Media Center, Berkeley, CA
• Visiting Curators and Critics, Graduate Student Studio Visits, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

• Watchers Watching, talk and screening, moderated by Karol Szafraniec at Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, BWA Sokół, Nowy Sącz, Poland
• The Arts in New York City, Macaulay Honors College Seminar, Baruch College, New York, NY
• Panel Discussion, Portraits: Reflections by Emerging Iranian Artists, New York, NY
• Critical Dialogues: Bahar Behbahani, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

• Political Photography: Satires, Cartoons, Statements-Staged Photography and Digital Collages, Left Forum 2013, Pace University, New York, NY
• The Short Films of Bahar Behbahani, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI

• Video 2012, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY

• Visiting Artist, Video Art, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
• The Chronicle of Her Innocence, conversation with Sam Bardaouil, NYU Abu Dhabi, New York, NY

• Leila Cancelled Due to Bad Weather, March Meeting, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE

• Art in Exile Round Table, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

• Persian Art from Past to Present, University of Texas, Dallas, TX

Selected Publications and Press

• Aliza Edelman, “Suspended: Bahar Behbahani’s Displacement and Longing in the PersianGarden,” in Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts, ed. Basia Sliwinska and Catherine Dormor (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), forthcoming (peer-reviewed)

• Wendy S. Walters, "Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Wendy S. Walters on Catastrophe, 2020, and the Work of Alan Ruiz and Bahar Behbahani," Los Angeles Review of Books

• Shailaja Tripathi, “Artist Bahar Behbahani uses landscapes as a metaphor for politics and poetics,” Stirworld
• Nadia Kurd, “Lahore Biennale 02: between the sun and the moon,” Journal of Curatorial Studies – Volume 9 Number 2, University of Alberta Museums
• Klaudia Ofwona Draber, “Culture and Climate in the Work of Artist Bahar Behbahani.” J'aipur Journal
• Yuko Hasegawa, “A New Ecology and Art,” GA Journal vol.1, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

• Lilly Wei, “Like a River Flows,” in All water has a perfect memory, Wave Hill Garden (brochure, Wave Hill Garden)

• Dr. Shiva Balaghi “Surrounded by Quiet Nothingness: On Bahar Behbahani’s Paintings,” in Let the Garden Eram Flourish, Hood Museum of Art, (brochure, Dartmouth College
• Ugochugwu-Smooth C. Nzewi Ph. D., “History as a Context of Artistic Practice,” in Let the Garden Eram Flourish, Hood Museum of Art, (brochure, Dartmouth College)

Public Collections

• Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
• Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
• Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia
• NYU Langone Art Program and Collection, New York, NY
• Columbia Hospital, New York, NY
• The Visual Arts Museum of Pasargad Bank, Tehran, Iran