Shadi  Ghadirian

Shadi Ghadirian

#Photographe
Born in 1974, Tehran, Iran
B.A degree in Photography, Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Working for:
Museum of Photography (Akskhaneh Shahr)
Photo Editor of Women In Iran Site (www.womeniniran.com)
Manager of the first Iranian specialized photography site (www.fanoosphoto.com)


Solo Exhibitions

2013

Podbielsky Contmporary Gallery, Berlin

2012
The International Photo Festival, Kusadasi, Turkey

2011
Queen Gallery, Canada
SilkRoad Gallery, Tehran

2010
Guild Art, Mumbai, India

2009
Aeroplastics Contemporary, Beljium
FCG Duesseldorf, Germany
Co2 Gallery, Rom
Boudin Lebon Gallery, Paris

2008
Los Angeles County Muesum of Art, California
Silk Rad, Tehran
Tasweer Gallery, India

2007
B21 Gallery, Dubai
Photography Festival of Istanbul, Turkey

2006
French Cultural Center, Damascus, Syria
Al mamal Foundation2, Jerusalem, Palestine

2002
Villa Moda, Kuwait

2001
Exhibition of Fnac, France

1999
Golestan Gallery, Tehran






Group Exhibitions



2012
The Elephant in the dark, India
Iranian Perspectives, Richard Young Gallery, London
Light from the Middle East, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society. Art Gallery of the
Princeton Arts Council, New Jersey
Evreux, Maison des Arts, France
Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia
The other half of Iran, SEM-Art Gallery, Monaco
Museum of contemporary art, Isfahan, Iran
Iranian Art, Cite International des Arts, Paris
Majority World, Guardian Gallery, London
Biennial of Fashion Photography, Varazdin, Croatia
Social Order, Women Photographers from Iran, India and Afghanistan, Photo Center Northwest, USA
Pictorial Representations from the Arab World and Iran, Rose Issa Project, London

2011
The French Cultural Center in Yangon, Burma
Photo Espana Festival, Spain
Cool Art Café, Brussels
Boghossian foundation, Brussels
Zendegi, Beiroot Exhibition Center, Lebonan
Artespacio CAF,Bolivia
Staging I dentity, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Switzerland
Face Contact, PHotoEspana, Madrid, Spain
Idols and Icons, Yavuz Fine Art, Singapore
Pool, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
Tehran Monoxide Project, Kherad School, Tehran
Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brezil

2010
Galerie Ernst Hilger, Austria
Cmooa Gallery, 
morocco
LTMH Gallery, New York
Stare at the Other Side, Albareh Art Gallery, Bahrain
Barakat, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York
Waterhouse & Dodd, London
The Silk Road, Saatchi Gallery, Lille, France
Festival Images,Vevey, Switzerland
IRAN: Preview of the past, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Act of Faith, Abdijdmuseum Ten Duinen' in Koksijde, Belgium

2009
Mall Gallery, Masques of Shahrzad, London
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
School, Tehran
165 years of Iranian Photography
rebelle. Art and feminism 1969-2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Nederland
Du Quai Branly Museum, Paris
Routes, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, London
Guild Art Gallery, New York
Arario Gallery New York
The Seen and the Hidden, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York

2008
Word Into Art, DIFC, Dubai
Cramer Contemporary, Switzerland
Exprmntl gallery , Toulouse, France

2007
Noorderlicht photofestival, Netherlands
La Paz, Bolivia
San Diego Convention Centre, California
Silk Road, Tehran

2006
Blessed are the Merciful, Feigen Contemporary, New York
Artspace Witzenhausen , Amsterdam
The Veiled Mirror, Contemporary Iranian Photography, De Santos Gallery, Houton, Texas,
Word into Art : Artists of the Modern Middle East, The British Museum, London,
Image of Middle East, dccd, Denmark
Ey Iran, Contemporary Iranian Photography, Gold Cost City Art Gallery, Australia
Representation and Use of the Body in Art, Galerie Helene Lamarque, Paris
Le Rectangle, Lyon, France
Selyemes Fenyek, Budapest
Inaugura en Tucumán, Mexico

2005
How eastern look at western, CCCB, Barcelona
Rebel mind Gallery, Berlin
Foto Art Festival, Poland
Group Exhibition, After the revolution, Sansebastian, Spain
Aeroplastics Gallery, Belgium
N Gallery, Georgia
Galata Fotografhanesi, Istanbul
Boudin Lebon Gallery, Paris
Third Line Gallery, Dubai

2004
San Jose Museum of Art, New York
The House of World Cultures, Berlin
Photo Biennale of Moscow, Russia
Parliament of Brussels
Photo Biennale of Luxemburg
Chobi Mella 3, Bangladesh

2003
Harem Fantasies and the new Scheherzades, Spain and France
Sharjah International Biennial 6, Sharjah
Women in Orient - Women in Occident, Germany
Konstmuseum Gutenberg, Sweden
Ville De Bologna, France
Veil exhibition, The new Art Gallery,Walsall, Liverpool, Oxford, England
Sorbonne University, Paris

2002
Silk Road Gallery, Tehran
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
Thssaloniki Museum of Photography (Glimpses Of Iran), Greece

2001
A Space Gallery, Toronto
Barbican Art Center (Iranian Contemporary Art), London
Photospania Festival, Spain
Regards Persans, Espace Electra, Paris

2000
Inheritance, Leiton House Museum, London
Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center Copenhagen, Denmark
Ballymena Arts Festival, Northern Ireland
The House of World Cultures, Berlin
The Iranian Women's Studies Foundation, Worth Ryder Gallery at University of California, Berkeley

1999
Leighton House Museum, London

1998
Sooreh International photo exhibition, Tehran
Barg Gallery, Tehran

1997
Group Exhibition (About Children) Aria Gallery, Tehran
Tehran International Documentary Photo exhibition, Tehran
Public Collections



The British Museum, London
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
The Smithsonian museum, Washington DC
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Mumok (Museum Modern Kunst Sitftung Ludwig), Vienna
Musée d’art et d’archéologie de la ville d’Aurillac
Devi Art Foundation, India
Museum of contemporary Art, Tehran