Bahar Behbahani
           


 2011        
    Iran Via Video Current
        December 13-17, 2011
Group show featuring two video programs curated by Tehran-based artists and curator Amirali Ghasemi and New York-based curator and scholar Sandra Skurvida.
In her program entitled 1979/1357-, Skurvida revisits the sightlines of the prominently controversial Western observer of the Iranian Revolution, Michel Foucault.
 
Opening: Tuesday, December 13, 6 - 8:30PM

Thomas Erben Gallery
526 West 26th St, 4th Floor

Saffron Tea
Bahar Behbahani, 2009
single-channel, HD, 12 minutes

 
    Abu Dhabi Art Fair
        16 - 19 November 2011, Saadiyat Cultural Distict, Abu Dhabi, UAE
 
Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery

 
    The Chronicle of Her Innocence: A Conversation with Bahar Behbahani
        NYUAD Lecture Series in New York City
September 29, 2011 – January 27, 2012
 
Bahar Behbahani New York-based Iranian Artist
Sam Bardaouil Curatorial Director, Art Reoriented

Location: 19 Washington Square North
5:30 PM Exhibition Opening; 6:30 PM Screening of Saffron Tea (2008) followed by an interview with the artist

 
    TVDinner
        is a public art project by OtherIS, curated by Sandra Skurvida in collaboration with Tania Brugueraʼs Immigrant Movement International, presented by CreativeTime and Queens Museum of Art

 
Launch Event:
July 30, 3 – 7 PM
@IM International Headquarters 108-59 Roosevelt Avenue
Queens, NY 11368 Phone: 718 424 6502

Directions by subway – take the 7 Flushing Local or Express, exit at the 111th St Station walk to 108-59 Roosevelt Avenue IMI is about a 1 minute walk from station

Tahiti Trot (Tea for Two)
Bahar Behbahani, 2011
Single-channel, HD video, Time: 8:40

 
    She Devil 5, MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
        For the video screenings in the V-tunnel, MACRO presents She Devil: the latest all-female exhibition of video art that Studio Stefania Miscetti has been successfully producing for years. As in previous editions, the review includes numerous international curators and artists, the aim being to set up an open platform for new and different experiences.

 
25 June - 30 October 2011
 
MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
 
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    Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial
        Curated by Suzanne Cotter, Curator, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project and Rasha Salti, Creative Director, ArteEast with Associate Curator Haig Aivazian.
Plot for a Biennial is the title for the 10th Sharjah Biennial, which opens on March 16, 2011. Curated by Suzanne Cotter and Rasha Salti and Associate Curator Haig Aivazian, the Biennial will present new and specially commissioned works by contemporary artists, filmmakers, writers and performers from across the region and internationally.
 
Opening: March 16, 2011
 
Sharjah, UAE
 
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 2010        
    White box - SanctionedArray
        SanctionedArray is an online database of video art conceived in response to the restrictions on artist’s submissions to The Guggenheim and YouTube's video biennial, Play. Citizens or residents of Belarus, Cote d'Ivoire, Congo, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Myanmar/Burma, and Zimbabwe are not eligible to submit their work because of economic and trade sanctions enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
 

SanctionedArray database will be launched at the screening event on October 25th and 26th at White Box. The opening will coincide with the Play biennial at The Guggenheim, challenging the status quo, as proposed by Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator.
 
Screening Event: October 25, 5 - 9 PM
Big Screen Project, 6th Ave between 29th and 30th

 
Screening Event: November 2, 12-10 PM
and November 3, 11-7 PM at White Box
Roundtable Discussion: November 2, 7 PM

 
White Box
329 Broome Street.
New York, NY. 10002
 
 
    Queens Museum of Art, NY
        The program consists of a screening of 15 video works presented in two 45 minute segments, with an intermission.
 
Sunday, October 24, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 2010

 
Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368-3398
 
 
    Open End, Witzenhausen Gallery, New York
        Witzenhausen gallery new york will open the new season with the group show ‘open end’, for which the gallery has invited 5 international female artists to exhibit their video work.
 
Opening, Thursday, September 9th, 6-8pm.
September 9 – Octobr 2, 2010.

 
Witzenhausen Gallery
547 west 27th street (5th floor, suite 508)
New York, New York 10001
 
 
    International Women Artists Video Exhibition
        “Openly” exhibition is an international video art anthology focused on woman identity,, implemented by the coopeartion of two women curators, as a part of Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency Visual Arts Directorate’s “Portable Art” project. “Openly”, with the works of women artists from three continents will be exhibited at “Sanat Limanı”.
 
Opening, Saturday, June 19th, 7pm.
June 19 – July 18, 2010.

 
Meclis-i Mebusan Caddesi, Liman İşletmeleri Sahası
Antrepo No:5, Tophane
Istanbul, Turkey
 
 
    Bruce Silverstein Gallery
        Silverstein Photography Annual (SPA), an exhibition featuring works by ten emerging artists,
each nominated by selected a group of American photography curators.
 
Opening, Saturday, March 27th, 6 – 8pm.
March 27 – May 8, 2010.

 
535 West 24th Street
New York, New York 10011
 
 
    Sharjah March Meeting
        An annual networking meeting of arts professionals and artists.
 
March 13 – March 15, 2010.

 
Sharjah, UAE
 
 
    Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery
        TEHRAN - NEW YORK will survey work by 40 well-known and emerging contemporary Iranian artists.
 
Opening, Friday, March 5th, 6 – 8pm.
March 5 – April 1, 2010.

 
39 East 78th St, Suite 301
New York, NY 10075
 
 
         
 2009        
    Brooklyn Artillery
         
September 12 Opening Party
September 12 – October 31
 
 
    Women Forward
        Celebrating Women’s History Month, Special Guest Artists: Judy Chicago, Faith Ringgold, Toshiko Takaezu
 
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
April 25 – May 25
 
 
    CITYarts 41st Anniversary Auction
         
Sotheby’s, 72 &York, New York
May 18 6:30 – 9:30
 
 
    Masques of Shahrazad
        Evolution and revolution through three generations of Iranian women artists
 
Mall Galleries, SW1, London
9-14 March 2009