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Barbad Golshiri Read Bio Collapse
Barbad Golshiri Read Bio Collapse
Barbad Golshiri (b. 1982, Tehran) studied painting in Tehran, and has been working in different fields and art disciplines over the past two decades. Golshiri work has focused on cemeteries and the making of grave markers, cenotaphs, and memorials. He is also a critic and a translator into Persian of Samuel Beckett’s dramatic works. His works are in the collections of institutions such as the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Freiburg Modern Art Museum, the Sound Florida University Museum, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, and in cemeteries in Iran, France, and Canada. He now resides in exile in France.
Woman, Life, Freedom: Year Zero
Art/Culture/Action, Barbad Golshiri, Sandra Skurvida, Jinoos Taghizadeh, and Tanin
e-flux Events
Posted: September 16, 2023
Category
Film, Feminism
Subjects
Middle East, Revolution, Islam, Freedom
REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater
Only the morning bird treasures the flower garden
e-flux Announcement
Posted: July 16, 2018
Category
Borders & Frontiers
Subjects
Plants & Forests, Geopolitics, Alienation
Institution
Grey Art Gallery at New York University
Global/Local 1960–2015: Six Artists from Iran
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 11, 2016
Institution
Framer Framed
Beyond History
e-flux Announcement
Posted: March 11, 2015
Institution
18th Street Arts Center
New exhibitions
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 6, 2011
Institution
# 08
For They Know What They Do Know
Barbad Golshiri
Positions June 2009
Making art, as I’ve always put it, is a habit—a poor one in my case. Making art is not initially creation but constant repetition, salvaged by making puny differences in certain orders on the plane of the feasible. Art is, semiotically speaking, purely negative; it cannot be defined positively. And of course doing it entails not doing something else . Like some of my Iranian colleagues, I’m not doing it these days. We have all seen frames that we can freeze, stick…
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 1, 2009
Category
Contemporary Art
Subjects
Middle East, Orientalism, Media Critique
Chelsea Art Museum
Iran Inside Out at The Chelsea Art Museum
e-flux Announcement
Posted: June 25, 2009
Institution
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 30, 2007
Institution