Nasim Hantehzadeh

NASIM HANTEHZADEH

Nasim Hantehzadeh (b. 1988) was born in Oklahoma City, OK, and grew up in Tehran, Iran where she started her art education at the Art and Architecture Tehran Center University in 2007. Hantehzadeh moved back to the United States and continued her art studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where she received her BFA in 2013. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries such as Lefebvre & Fils in Paris, France as well as galleries in Italy, Iran, and the United States. Hantehzadeh received Resnick Scholarship, D’Arsy Hayman scholarship in 2015, and UCLA Art council award in 2016, she is a current graduate student in the Painting – Drawing program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Work by the artist is held in private collections worldwide, including the Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, USA; New American Paintings, Edition #135, USA; New American Paintings, Edition #129, USA; Diéresis Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico; GAIA Collection, Mexico; Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection, Mexico; Lynda and Stewart Resnick Collection, USA.  

STATEMENT

My art practice has evolved through thinking about conditions that social structures impose upon the movement of human body in public, inside domestic space, and in nature. Particularly, I am concerned with the violence that human civilization continues to perpetuate in systems, and the way that society normalizes this violence. For me, studio space is a metaphor for social spaces. Walking inside my studio makes me think about bodily gestures. If I think of human body as an entity or a solid form in space, my inclination to categorize people as I have been categorized diminishes, and I no longer have to think about otherness. Having that in mind, I have started to develop a visual language. There is a necessity for “Time” for this visual language to evolve. Time visually appears in the work, within elements such as form, texture, gestures, and color. When I start making work, in my mind, I enter an empty space that belongs to forms, and in there, they communicate with and within time. As I go along, time opens a door to a path that is directed towards my memories. Sometimes I take the path, pass my memories and walk beyond them until I reach sentiments, and other times I see the dead-end at the beginning and decide to stay at the moment.  

EDUCATION

2018 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA Merit-based Scholarship recipient, emphasis of study in Painting-Drawing 2013 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, USA Merit Scholarship Recipient, Emphasis of study in Painting, Drawing, and Ceramics 2010 BFA, Art & Architecture Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Emphasis of study in Painting and Drawing, and print media  

CURRENT AND UPCOMING

Solo exhibition The Rotating Raffle Drum, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico October, 2019 Group exhibition Biomorphism and the Body, Cal Poly Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, USA October, 2019 Artist in residence, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine, USA June 8 – August 10, 2019 Artist in residence, The MacDowell Colony, New Haven, USA August 26 – October 1st, 2019  

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 The Rotating Raffle Drum, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico 2018 As I Travel, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, USA Driveway 327 Project, Venice, USA 2014 Artology Gallery, Chicago, USA  

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 The Pit, Glendale, USA The Project Room, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, USA New Suns, Chapter 2, curated by Kris Kuramitsu, Páramo, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Color Out of Space, Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles, USA nepantla, Gamma Galería, Guadalajara, Mexico 2018 New Suns, curated by Kris Kuramitsu, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico Soft Pretzel, The Vacation, New York, NY, USA Like one speaks to the stone, Stuart & Co, Chicago, USA Topography of a Terrestrial Paradise, ET al, San Francisco, USA Every Unlikely Story, Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA New Work, New Release, New York, NY, USA Eight Emerging Artists, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, USA Metamorphosis, Lightly (Intimacy of Form), Oof Books, Los Angeles, USA MFA Thesis, New Wight Gallery (MFA Tesis), Los Angeles, USA Glamfa, CSULB Galleries, Long Beach, USA 2017 New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, USA Dalton Warehouse Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Hotel Kalifornia, Lefebvre&Fils Gallery, Paris, France FAR Bazaar, Cerritos, USA 2016 Skin Ego, Skibum MacArthur Gallery, Los Angeles, USA City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, USA 2015 Fortress, The Hatchery Art Spaces, Badger, USA Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, USA Mana Contemporary, Chicago, USA Bliss on Bliss Art Projects, New York, USA Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, USA 2014 NYCH Gallery, Chicago, USA Artology Gallery, Chicago, USA Mana Contemporary, Chicago, USA 2013 Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, USA ISA Gallery, Umbria, Italy Zirment Gallery, Chicago, USA 2010 Islamic Azad University Galleries, Tehran, Iran  

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2019 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, Maine, USA 2017 Vermont Studio Center (artist residency), Johnson, Vermont, USA Regent stipend UCLA ART/DEPT.ART scholarship 2016 UCLA Art Council Award Graduate Division Award 2015 Graduate Division Award Resnick Scholarship UCLA Department of Art D’Arcy Hayman Scholarship 2013 International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, (artist residency), Umbria, Italy  

LECTURES

2016 Grad School panel discussion, University of San Diego (USD), San Diego, USA 2015 Artist Talk as a Persian-American artist in Chicago sponsored by Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago in Illinois, Chicago, USA  

CURATORIAL PROJECTS​

2016 Eye Spy, New Wight Biennial, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2015 Hidden Process, Open Center for the Arts, Chicago, USA Remnants, Open Center for the Arts, Chicago, USA 2010 Islamic Azad University Galleries, Tehran, Iran  

COLLECTIONS

Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, USA New American Paintings, Edition #135, USA New American Paintings, Edition #129, USA Diéresis Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico GAIA Collection, Mexico Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection, Mexico Lynda and Stewart Resnick Collection, USA  

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2019 Kaganovsky, Eva. Artist uses abstract shapes to visualize feelings of identity and empathy, Daily Bruin, March 17, 2019. Monro, Lara. Five female artists on how Los Angeles influences their work, DAZED, February 8, 2019. 2018 Nasim Hantehzadeh 15 Sep — 27 Oct 2018 at the Ochi Projects in Los Angeles, United States, Wall Street International Magazine, September 21, 2018. 2016 Burke, Anne Marie. UCLA Artists to feature 250 public events this fall, September 29, 2016.