PUBLICATION2022

Suspended: Bahar Behbahani’s Displacement and Longing in the Persian Garden

— by Aliza Edelman in Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts, ed. Basia Sliwinska and Catherine Dormor (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), forthcoming (peer-reviewed).
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PUBLICATIONFebruary2022

At Berman Museum, "Immigrant Flora" Collaboration Blooms

—by Ed Moorhouse, Ursinus College, February 11, 2022

PODCASTJune2021

A Persian Garden for Manhattan—with Bahar Behbahani

—by Cathy Byrd, Fresh Art International Podcast, June 23, 2021

VIDEOMay2021

Bahar Behbahani: all water has a perfect memory
Mary Mattingly interviews artist Bahar Behbahani via Zoom about her research-based artistic projects that explore underground water systems and water engineering in Persian gardens, including all water has a perfect memory created at Wave Hill, Bronx NY.

—by Mary Mattingly, Public Water, May 2021

PUBLICATIONOctober2020

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

—by Wendy S. Walters, Los Angeles Review of Books, February 19, 2021

PODCASTJanuary2021

The Awakening
Women curators and artists strengthen their commitment to unity, democracy and truth in this new era.

—by Cathy Byrd, Fresh Art International Podcast, January 27, 2021

PRESSNovember2020

Artist Bahar Behbahani uses landscapes as a metaphor for politics and poetics

—by Shailaja Tripathi, Stirworld, November 20, 2020

PRESSNovember2020

Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces 2020 Grant Recipients

—Artforum, November 3, 2020

PUBLICATIONOctober2020

Journal of Curatorial Studies - Lahore Biennale 02: between the sun and the moon

—Reviewed by Nadia Kurd, University of Alberta Museums, October 1, 2020

PRESSSeptember2020

Home Studio with Bahar Behbahani

—KODA, Laboratory for Creative Concepts, September 2020

PRESSJuly2020

Culture and Climate in the Work of Artist Bahar Behbahani

—by Klaudia Ofwona Draber for J'aipur Journal, July 14, 2020

PUBLICATIONJanuary2020

A New Ecology and Art

—by Yuko Hasegawa, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

PUBLICATIONSeptember2019

Like a River Flows, essay by Lilly Wei

—Wave Hill Garden, published brochure

PRESSJanuary2019

Creative Capital's 2019 Award Recipients Are 60 Percent Women, 77 Percent People of Color

—by Helen Holmes, Observer, January 15, 2019

PODCASTFebruary2017

Bahar Behbahani on Politics and Persian Gardens

—by Cathy Byrd, Fresh Art International Podcast, February 2, 2017

PRESSFebruary2017

Art Review: Bahar Behbahani, Hood Downtown

—by Rachel Elizabeth Jones, Seven Days, February 1, 2017

PRESSJanuary2017

Hood Features Iranian Painter's Works of 'Psychogeography'

—by Office of Communications, Dartmouth News, January 13, 2017

PRESSJanuary2017

Art Notes: Looking Back at the Garden From Afar

—by Nicola Smith, Valley News Staff Writer, January 12, 2017

PUBLICATIONJanuary2017

Let The Garden Eram Flourish

—Hood Museum of Art, Catalogue

Surrounded by Quiet Nothingness: On Bahar Behbahani's Paintings, essay by Dr. Shiva Balaghi
History as a Context of Artistic Practice, in Converstaion with Bahar Behbahani, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi

PRESSJune2016  

The Hazy Chronicles of a CIA-backed Coup

—by Seph Rodney, Hyperallergic, June 24, 2016

PRESSJune2016  

Abstract Paintings that Evoke Persian Gardens and a Bloody Coup

—by Bansie Vasvani, Hyperallergic, June 20, 2016

VIDEOJune2016  

Artist Talk with Bahar Behbahani and Dr. Shiva Balaghi

—Thomas Erben Gallery, New York City, June 2, 2016

PRESSMay2016  

Making Space for Manhattan Artists That They Otherwise Couldn't Afford

—by Matt Chaban, New York Times, May 30, 2016

PRESSMay2016  

Euronews Persian (in Farsi)

—by Pantea Bahrami, Euronews Persian, May 30, 2016

PRESSJanuary2016  

Developer of Towering 50 West Street Provides Inspiring Site for Artists

—by Carl Glassman, Tribeca Online, January 18, 2016

PRESSOctober2014  

Persian Gardens

—by Cathy Byrd, October, 2014

PRESSSeptember2014  

Bahar Behbahani Presents A TIDE OF A MEMORY, A Performance at MAPSpace: Miranda Arts Project Space

—by Broadway World News Desk, September 10, 2014

PRESSNovember2011  

Painting a State of Suspension

—by Narges Bajoghli, The Revealer, November 29, 2011

PRESSNovember2011  

Bahar Behbahani: The Chronicle of Her Innocence

—by Persianesque Magazine Staff, November 3, 2011

PRESSMay2010  

Sharjah 10: a Report from the Emirates

—by Nazy Nazhand, Artnet, May 19, 2010

PRESSMay2010  

Middle East Report

—by Nazy Nazhand, Artnet, May 19, 2010

PRESSApril2010  

Libertate, libertate!

—by Anna Somers Cocks, The Art Newspaper, Issue 223, April 2010