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February
June2023
Sharjah Biennial
February 7–June 11, 2023
Sharjah Biennial Names Over 150 Artists for Long-Awaited Okwui Enwezor–Conceived 2023 Edition.
Sharjah Art Foundation
United Arab Emirates
July
August2022
Water binds me to your name
July 28–August 27, 2022
Trotter & Sholer Gallery
168 Suffolk Street, New York City
Curated by Klaudia Ofwona Draber · KODA
July
August2022
Infinite Reminders
July 19–August 18, 2022
Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India
April2022
Mother River
Created by Bahar Behbahani, Mother River is an online portal featuring a series of one-minute videos, each presenting a meditative journey dedicated to a river. Focusing on rivers that hold spiritual and cultural significance from across the world, Behbahani maps a transnational story of drastically changing ecologies marked by exploitation and displacement. The video series features Behbahani’s performative drawing acts with text performed by theater artist Tara Ahmadinejad and compositions by drummer/composer Maciek Schejbal performed by the Afro-Polka Ensemble, opening sites for reflection.
Asia Society Museum website
New York, NY
March2022
Water in a Shared World: Artist Perspectives (practice or action)
Thursday, March 17, 10:00-11:30am ET
In advance of World Water Day, Water in a Shared World: Artist Perspectives (practice or action) will feature four artists who have taken artistic practice and expression as a potent means to reach people across the globe. Each of them has interpreted the urgency of the water crisis today as the focus of a creative expression. The circumstances we are living in today require us to connect globally — to share and grapple with the pressing, emerging, threatening challenges that transcend borders. The panelists are deeply concerned about how artistic practice can build awareness and inspire further action.
Cosponsored by OneShared.World, the Culture as Diplomacy Initiative of the Asia Society, and the John Brademas Center of New York University.
February
December2022
The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College
February - December 2022
Beginning in January 2022, New York-based artist Bahar Behbahani will be in-residence at the Berman Museum of Art to execute a site-specific wall drawing as part of her ongoing body of work, Immigrant Flora.
601 E. Main Street
Collegeville, PA 19426-1000
November2021
WAVE: Workshops on Activism and Visuality in Europe
The Fresh Eye platform for visual culture studies in collaboration with visual critic and activist Nicholas Mirzoeff and political sociologists, philosophers, activists, and artists.
October2020
Award Announcement
Joan Mitchell Foundation 2020 Recipients of Painters & Sculptors Grants
January
February2020
Lahore Biennale
January 26 - February 29
The second edition of the Lahore Biennale (LB02), between the sun and the moon, taking place between January 26 and February 29. Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, the director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, the exhibition will focus on the Global South—“where ongoing social disaffection is being aggravated by climate change”—and will be held at various cultural and heritage sites throughout the city of Lahore, Pakistan, including the Gaddafi Stadium and the Lahore Museum.
Lahore, Pakistan
September2019January2020
Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text
September 21, 2019- January 26, 2020
Franklin Street Works fall group exhibition is curated by Danilo Machado and explores how tactics of erasure can be used to uphold systems of oppression and colonization, but can also be counterpoints—artists can turn a subtractive act into an additive one, poke holes in the colonizer’s language and logic, and queer temporal spaces and histories. Otherwise Obscured examines relationships between the erasure of text through redaction and illegibility and the erasure of bodies through policy and violence. The exhibition’s title riffs on poet Ángel García’s definition of erasure in the 2019 essay Lessons on Erasure.
Franklin Street Works
41 Franklin Street
Stamford, CT 06901
October
December2019
Trajectory: FiveMyles
October 19 - December 15
Curated by Charlotta Kotik with William Corwin
“The exhibition has been organized to honor and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this unconventional Brooklyn art space that, for the past two decades, succeeded in presenting innovative experimental work all the while being engaged with the local community and its needs. FiveMyles gallery and performance space was established in the heart of Brooklyn’s Crown Heights and named after Myles Tierney, a photo-journalist with the Associated Press. Myles’ interests had always been the decolonization of the African continent, and he documented the resulting wars and struggles. He was killed in Sierra Leone in 1999.
FiveMyles is dedicated to experimentation in visual arts and performance, while keeping in mind that a certain degree of eclecticism allows for coexistence of varied formal expressions that can serve multiple community needs. The present exhibition mirrors the vision of FiveMyles. It champions diversity points of view, forms and experiences, and brings together recent works by artists who were featured in past exhibitions as well as those whose work does conceptually fall into the credo of the place.”
-Charlotta Kotik
FiveMyles
558 St. Johns Place
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY
September
December2019
All water has a perfect memory.
September 15 - December 1
Wave Hill revives its generated@wavehill commissioning program with Bahar Behbahani’s site-specific program, developed with arts and education staff, as well as others on staff, for the Herbert and Hyonja Abrons Woodland. Behbahani takes a poetic approach to using water and garden imagery as metaphors to engage social and environmental issues. She worked with interns in Wave Hill's youth programs this summer to develop the project.
Wave Hill
675 West 252nd Street
Bronx, NY 10471
August
September2019
What's Love Got to Do with It?
August 16 - September 15
What’s Love Got to Do with It? is an exhibition about love—the banality of love, but also its radicality; the labor of love; and working in the name of love while experiencing an increasingly precarious existence. At once a universal discourse, a recurring subject of inquiry, and a persistent theme in art—from Archaic Greek poet Sappho, to twentieth-century Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw and to American cultural critic bell hooks—love is as democratic as drawing is. Organized by Rosario Güiraldes and Lisa Sigal, Open Sessions Curators.
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street
SoHo, New York, 10013
July
December2019
Figuring The Floral
July 21 - December 1
Figuring The Floral features artists who use flowers to explore representations of identity, including race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation and aging.
Wave Hill
675 West 252nd Street
Bronx, NY 10471
July
August2019
CIVIC WOMEN:community visions
July 27 - August 3
The two year cross-cultural collaborative project kicked off at the ArtMill Barn Gallery July 29, 2018. It is part of a larger co-operation that ArtDialogue is engaging with other art + farmers + civic groups across Europe culminating in the 30 year anniversary of the "Artists' Revolution" in former Czechoslovakia. Curated by Lydia Matthews.
Strakonicka, 16
Horaždovice 34 101
Czech Republic
June2019
July
March2019
Short Shadows: Bahar Behbahani and Jon Wang
Friday, March 29, 7:30pm, Studio 1-Goodman
Bringing together the work of New York-based artists and filmmakers Bahar Behbahani and Jon Wang, this event expands the format of the Short Shadows moving image series to include elements of performance, painting, and architecture. The evening will engage themes and processes of displacement and longing, as well as narratives of transformation that run through Wang and Behbahani’s work.
EMPAC
8th Street and College Avenue
Troy, NY 12180
February
March2019
New Works: Group Show
February 9 - March 30
New Works, a group show of new and recent works by Bahar Behbahani, Seokmin Ko, Gwenn Thomas, Soo Im Lee, Filipe Rocha da Silva, and Il Lee. The disparate works by the six artists in New Works are a vital reflection of the rich pluralism of today’s contemporary art world.
Art Projects International
434 Greenwich Street
Tribeca, New York, 10013
January2019
Award Announcement
Creative Capital Award-2019