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

• I do not believe in time, I do believe in water, Creative Time Summit 2024 commission for stage design, Brooklyn Academy of Music Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, NY

• 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

• Hidden Camera, Causey Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY

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

Selected Group Exhibitions and Biennales

• Rivers Flow / Artists Connect, curated by Jennifer McGregor and Laura Vookles, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

• Beyond the Last Horizon, curated by Charlotte Bank and Salah Saouli, Art-Lab Berlin, Germany
• Within Others, curated by Candace Huey, Edge on the Square, San Francisco, CA
• Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by 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, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, 2nd Lahore Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan

• Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text, curated by Danilo Machado, Franklin Street Works Gallery, Stamford, CT
• Trajectory: FiveMyles, curated by Charlotta Kotik with William Corwin, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY
• What's Love Got To Do With It?, from Open Sessions 2018–2020, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
• Figuring The Floral, curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
• Point of Departure: Open Sessions 15, organized by curators Rosario Güiraldes and Lisa Sigal, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
• Short Shadows: Bahar Behbahani and John Wang, curated by Vic Brooks, EMPAC-Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer, Troy, NY
• New Works, Arts Projects International, New York, NY
• Civic Women: Community Visions, co-curated by Lydia Matthews and Barbara Benish, Art Dialogue at the KINO, Horaždovice, Czech Republic

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

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

• Why Not Ask Again, curated by Raqs Media Collective, 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

• Vision of Three, Boom Gallery, Tehran, Iran
  
• Chain of Fire, curated by Dr. Kóan Jeff Baysa and Isabella Ellaheh Hughes, 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
• Women: Experimental Films, The Shed Space, Brooklyn, NY

• Dangerous Beauty, Graffit Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
• Looks Like Torture, curated by Nicholas Cohn Art Projects and Amy Kisch, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY
• The Time in Children's Arts Initiative, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
• Six Women, curated buy Margrethe Aanestad and Eric Heist, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway

• all our relations, curated by Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster, 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
• Part of Me: mise en abyme, curated by Amirali Ghasemi and Sandra Skurvida, Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
• Aftermath, curated by Basak Senova, Akbank Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
• Video 2012, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY

• TVDinner, curated by Sandra Skurvida with Amirali Ghasemi, a project for Immigrant Movement International by Tania Bruguera, Queens Museum and Creative Time, New York NY
• Iran Via Video Current, curated by Amirali Ghasemi and Sandra Skurvida, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
• She Devil 5, presented by Studio Stefania Miscetti, MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
• Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial, curated by Suzanne Cotter, Rasha Salti, and Haig Aivazian, Sharjah, UAE

• 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
• 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
• Openly, International Women Artists Video Exhibition, curated by Sabina Shikhlinskaya, Antrepo5, Istanbul, Turkey
• Silverstein Photography Annual, curated by Carrie Springer, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
• Tehran-New York, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY

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

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

• Experimental Media Series, co-curated by Kathryn Cornelius and Djakarta, WPA, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

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

• ABIM Collective, Mimara Museum, Zagreb, Croatia

• Second Biennial of Contemporary Painting of the Islamic World, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
• Dena-12 Contemporary Iranian Women Artists: Palazzo Reale di Napoli, Naples, Italy; Fabian Gallery, Marbella, Spain; Vigado Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; Palaise des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland; Villa Del Cardinale, Naples, Italy
• 10th Asian Art Biennial, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Iranian Contemporary, Christie's, London, England

• 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 Residency, 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 Fundations, Budapest

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

• Selected ‘Best in Show’ by Carrie Springer, Senior Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art - 13th Annual International Exhibition of Women's Art, SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Teaching and Pedagogical Lectures

• Adjunct Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York, NY

• Guest Artist, Low-Residency MFA Visual Studies, Willamette University, Portland, OR
• Adjunct Professor, Queens College School of Arts, CUNY, New York, NY

• Visiting Artist, Department of Art and Art History, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
• Panel: AAPI Artists, Culture Lab, Long Island City, Queens, NY
• Adjunct Professor, Queens College School of Arts, CUNY, New York, NY

• The Atelier Course, Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse, NY
• Liquid Borders - a panel discussion on art and environmental justice with Bahar Behbahani, David Brooks, and Jennifer McGregor
• 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 Fellowship, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
• 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 College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse, NY
• 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

• WAVE: Workshops on Activism and Visuality in Europe, in collaboration with visual critic Nicholas Mirzoeff and political sociologists, philosophers, activists, and artists

• 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

• Workshop with Wave Hill’s Woodland Ecology Research Mentorship (WERM), Bronx, NY
• Artist Lecture, Smith College Department of Art, Northampton, MA
• Workshop with Wave Hill’s Art, Community and Environmental Stewards (ACES), Bronx, NY
• Visiting Critics, MASSART, Studio for Interrelated Media, Boston, MA
• Artist Lecture, Department of Art and Art History, University at Albany / SUNY, NY
• Workshop with CUNY Corps and Bloomberg interns work at the garden’s weekly Family Art Project, Bronx, 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 Artist Lecture Series, School of Art and Design, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
• 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
• Guest Artist, Spence School, New York, 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, film and lecture series, 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)
• "Home Studios", interviews conducted by Klaudia Ofwona Draber, published by Koda Lab and Brooklyn Arts Council

• 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

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