Mitra Tabrizian
Curriculum Vitae
Born in Iran
Education
1987
M Phil, Dissertation;
'Woman As Such: Advertising, Psychoanalytic Theory, Photographic Practice', University of Westminster
1985
B.A (Hons) Film & Photographic Arts, (1st),
University of Westminster
Talks and Workshops
1985 - 2003
London:
The Photographer's Gallery - Institute of Contemporary Arts - Sir John Cass School of Art - Harrow College - Royal College of Art - Chelsea School of Art - St.Martin's School of Art - Goldsmiths College of Art - London College of Printing- Black Art Gallery - Serpentine Gallery - Brighton University - Thames Valley University - London University
Others:
UK
Arnolfini (Bristol) - Portfolio Gallery (Edinburgh) - Metro Billboard Project (Newcastle) - Coventry School of Art - Leeds Women's Centre - Leeds University - Derby Master Photography Workshop - Derby M.A Course - Farnham University - Watershed (Bristol)
International
Perspektief Gallery (Rotterdam) - Camera Austria (Graz) - The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York) - Gallery Index (Stockholm) - Museum of Modern Art (Stockholm) University of Stockholm - Institute of Contemporary Arts (Boston) - University of Santa Cruz (USA) - University of Santa Barbara (USA)
Conference Papers
2000
Chairing coversation between Stuart Hall & Homi Bhabha, University of Westminster
1998
Muthesius Hochschule Forum, paper, Minimal Utopia, Keil ,Germany.
1997
'Symposium on Photography XVII: Agents & Agencies: Photography between Discourse & Document', paper, Minimal Utopia, Graz, Austria
1994
'British Art', discussing the film 'Journey of No Return' (BFI) Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin, Germany
'Post-Feminism & Art', Paper 'The Feminine Gaze', University of Stockholm, Sweden
1993
'History as Repetition, The Repetition of History - What is New?'(History, identity, Race, Nation), discussing the photographic work, 'The Blues', Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
'Haltbar, International Conference of Photography', paper; 'On the Notion of Critical Practice', Dortmond, Germany
'Feminist Art & Histories Network', paper 'On the Notion of Critical Practice', Leeds University, UK
1992
'Identities: Strategies of Representations', Paper 'The Black As Such: Race & Representation' University of Santa Barbara, USA.
1991
'Public Images', paper, 'The Black As Such: Race & Representation'
'Camera Austria, Graz, Austria.
1990
'Displacements: Migration and Identity', paper,'Surveillance: Islam, Identity and the West', University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
1989
'Foto Biennale: International Conference of Photography', paper, 'On Postmodernism', Enschede, Holland.
1988
'Feminism & Art', paper 'Post - Feminism and the Third World Woman' New Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1987
'The Other Body: Cultural Debates in Contemporary British Photography', paper 'Correct Distance: On the femme fatale', Boston University, Boston, USA
'Photography, Phantasy, Politics', 'Correct Distance: On the femme fatale' Leeds University, UK.
'International Conference of Photography', paper, 'Racism and Representation', Toronto, Canada
1986
'Women's Photography Conference', paper,'Not Images of Women, But Woman as Image', Battersea Arts Centre, London.
1985
'Photography & Critical Theory', paper 'Not Images of Women, But Woman as Image', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK.
Selected Publications
Books
2003
'Beyond the Limits' (with an introduction by Stuart Hall) Steidl, Germany (forthcoming)
1990
Correct Distance (Critical Theory & Photographic Practice), Cornerhouse, Manchester,UK.
Articles & Photo-Essay
2004
'Beyond the limits', (with an essay by Stuart Hall), Phaidon Press book
"The Third Woman' (British Film Institutue short film), interviewed by Hamid Naficy in 'An Accented Cinema: Exile and Diasporic Film making', Hamid Naficy, Princeton U Press, (March)
2000
'Beyond the Limits' (photo essay) published in the following journals:
'Futures: the journal of policy, planning & futures studies' Ziauddin Sardar (ed) 'Art', German magazine, No. 11,2001
1999
Minimal Utopia(photo essay) published in the following books & journals:
'Formation of Present' (translation), Hubertus Von Amelunxen & Antje, Krause-Wahl (eds), Muthesius Hochschule book publication
The Third Text, London,
Photographers International', Juan I-Jong (ed), published in Taiwan ,
'The Blues' ( photo essay) in 'Det Finns Granser' ('There Exist Borders': translation from Swedish),Wiwi Samuelsson, (April-May)
1998
Minimal Utopia (photo essay), Camera Austria, N 62 / 63
Surveillance (photo essay) reprinted in The Politics Behind the Nude (translation), a book by Michiko Kasahara
1995
Surveillance (photo essay) in 'Liberating Art History' (translation), Hiroko Hagiwar (Ed), Jijitsushn - sha,Tokyo - The paper was initially published in New Formations, N 6 - 1990 & reprinted in Camera Austria,N 49
1992
'The Black As Such: Race & Representation',Camera Austria, N 40
reprinted in 'Public Domain' (translation), Jorge Ribalta (Ed) Departament de Cultura,Barcelona, 1994
1988
'The Blues (Photo essay)' New Formations, N 6
1985
'Correct Distance: On the Femme Fatale', Block, N 10
'Governmentality: On the Discourse of Advertising', Screen, N
'College of Fashion' (photo-essay), Screen Education, N 4
Photographic work published in
1984 - 2003
British Journals
The Observer - British Journal of Photography - Camerawork, Creative Camera - Ten.8 - UnderCut - The Media Education Journal - Feminist Review- Screen Education - Screen - Formations - New Formations - Block -Tank
Books
'Photography Politics: Two', Patricia Holland, Jo Spence and Simon Watney (ed), Comedia Publishing Group,
Female Desire, Rosalind Coward
Vision and Difference, Griselda Pollock, Routledge 1988
'Post - Modernism & the Question of Identity', ICA Documents, N 6, 1987
Visual and Other Pleasures', Laura Mulvey, Macmillan, 1989
'The Art of Interpretation: Realism, Photography & the Everyday', John Roberts , MUP 1998
'The Image & Visual Culture', Jessica Evans (ed), Open University (1999)
'Terra Infirma - Geography's Visual Culture', Irit Rogoff, Routledge (2000)
'Art & Feminism', Helena Reckitt (ed), Phaidon Press (Oct.) This book is part of a series entitled '20th Century Source Books'(2000)
'Art & Photography', David Company (ed), Phaidon, 2003
International Journals
Exposure - Aperture - Artforum International (American Journals) 'C' - Public - Parachute (Canadian Journals) 'Image' (Finish Journal) Bildtidningen - Bang (Swedish Journals) Camera Austria (Austrian Journal) Art - (German Journal) Photographers International (Chinese Journal) Art & Photography (Iranian journal)
Selected Exhibitions
2004
Solo Show, BBK, Bilbao, Spain
'Veil', The Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (catalogue)
'Far Near Distance', 'House of Culture' Berlin(catalogue)
Lumo04 triennaial of Contemporary Photography, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Finland (catalogue)
2003
Solo show, Museum of Folkwang, Germany (catalogue -forthcoming )
'Aletheia: The Real of concealment ', Art Museum, Goteborg, Sweden (catalogue)
'Veil', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Uk (touring in UK)
2002
'Inhabiting', Gallery Lelong , NY. USA
2000
'Subverted Realities', Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland (catalogue)
1999
'Affirmation', frankfurterkunstverein , Franfort,Germany (catalogue)
1998
'London: Post-Colonial City', Architectural Association, London,UK
1997
Minimal Utopia (Solo show), Camera Austria Gallery, Graz, Austria (poster)
1996
'Gender- Beyond Memory', Metropolitan Museum of Photography', Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
'Family, Nation, Tribe, Community Shift', House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
1995
'The Outburst of Signs: Art at the Interfaces of Gender & Race', Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrabe, Munich, Germany (catalogue)
1994
'Le Shuttle',Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
'Public Domain', Art Centre Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain (catalogue)
Solo show', Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (travelling in Finland)
'Solo show', 'Gallery Index: Centre of Photography', Stockholm, Sweden (travelling in Sweden)
1993
'Mistaken Identities'(catalogue): University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; Museum Folklwang, Essen, Germany; Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
1992
'History Present', Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
'Fine Material for a Dream....? A Reappraisal of Orientalism: 19th & 20th Century Fine Art & Popular Culture', Harris Museum, Preston (travelling in UK - catalogue)
1991
'Shocks to the System: Social & Political Issues in Recent British Art' Royal Festival Hall, London (travelling in UK - catalogue)
'Public Images', Forum Stadtpark, graz, Austria
1990
'Spectacular Women', Film in the Cities, Saint Paul, USA (catalogue)
'Contemporary Social Documentary', Fotobienal, 'Art History Centre', Vigo, Spain (travelling in Spain - catalogue)
1989
'Mysterious Coincidences'(catalogue) The Photographers' Gallery, London; Fotogallery, Cardiff; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania; National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand; Long Beach Museum, Los Angeles; Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand
'Shifting Focus' (catalogue) Serpentine Gallery (London); Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol) Cambridge Darkroom (Cambridge); City Museum & Art Gallery (Stoke on Trent); Newport Museum & Art Gallery (Newport) Harris Museum & Art gallery (Preston)
'Through the Looking Glass: Photographic Art in Britain,1945- 89' Barbican Art Gallery, London (travelling in UK - catalogue)
'The Boundaries of Photography', Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland (catalogue)
'Some Notions on Marginality', Grey Art Gallery, NYU Study Centre, New York
1988
'The Other Body', Photographic Resource Centre, Boston,USA (catalogue)
Billboards: New Castle, Derry, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield - Canada
'International Photography', Metronom, Barcelona, (catalogue)
Reflections on the Media, Perspektief, Rotterdam
Towards the Photograph as a Vulgar Document, Optica Gallery, Montreal (catalogue)
'Sexual Difference Both Sides of the Camera', Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York (catalogue)
'The Blues', Corner House, Manchester (one woman show)
1987
'One Person show''National Museum of Photography, Film and Television', Bradford (travelling in UK - catalogue)
'The Body Politic', The Photographers' Gallery, London (travelling in Europe & in USA - catalogue) 1986
'One person Show'; Chateau d'Eau Gallery, Toulouse, France (travelling in Europe)
'International Photography', Arles International Gallery, Arles (catalogue)
1985
'Magnificent Obsession' - ARC Gallery, Toronto (travelling in Canada - catalogue)
'Screen Memories', Perspectief, Rotterdam, Holland (catalogue)
'Impostors', Interim Art Gallery, London (catalogue)
'Towards a Bigger Picture', Victoria and Albert Museum, London, (catalogue).
1984
'College of Fashion' Gallery 400, Chicago (travelling in USA & Europe)
'European Women Photographers Today', Torino otografia,Torino, Italy (catalogue)
'Beyond the Purloined Image', The Riverside, London
'The Way We Live Now: Beyond Social Documentary', PS1 Gallery, New York
'Phototextes', Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva (catalogue)
'Solo Show, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
'Five Photographers'; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (travelling in Europe - catalogue)
'The Actress'; The Photographers' Gallery (travelling in UK.)
Work in Public Collections
1984 - 2002
Arts Council of Great Britain
'Victoria & Albert Museum', London, UK
'National Museum of Photography, Film & Television',Bradford, UK
'Institute of Contemporary Art', Boston, USA
'Alvar Aalto Museum', Finland
'Museum of Folkwang', Essen, Germany
'Moravian Gallery', Husova, Czechoslovakia
Awards
2003
AHRB (arts & humanities research board) Innovation Awards
1996
London Arts Board
1993
British Film Institute
1989
Greater London Arts (GLA) Film award Photographers' Gallery Trust Fund
1987
Metro Billboard Project, Newcastle, UK
1986
Greater London Arts photography award
Arts Council photography award, UK
1984
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (photography award), UK Greater London Arts photograpy award
Other Activities
2001
member of Autograph panel
1993
member of London Arts panel
1985
member of Visual Arts panel, Greater London Arts (G.L.A)
1984
camerawork magazine advisory committee
Films
1993
Writer & Director of Journey of No Return, British Film Institute (BFI),16mm, 23mins, Colour.
1991
Writer & Director of The Third Woman, BFI,16 mm, 20 mins, B&W.
Film Festivals
1993 - 2001
Journey of No Return distributed by BFI & Cine Nova
Toronto International Film Festival,Canada
Turin International Film Festival, Italy
Birmingham International Film & Television Festival, UK.
Berlin International Film Festival, Germany
'Women in Hollywood's Chair', Chicago, USA
Journey of No Return has been shown & discussed at:
Metro Cinema, BFI Summer Shorts
Thames Valley University, MA in Cultural Studies
Leeds University, MA in Art History
London University, School of Oriental & African Studies
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm,Sweden
Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Institute of Contemporary Arts), Berlin, Germany
The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany.
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
'The World is My Home' The International Exile Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
Festival of Iranian Cineaste in Diaspora (FICD),
(travelling in Montreal,Ottawa, and Toronto )
1991 -2001
'The Third Woman' distributed by BFI & Cine Nova
Creteil International Women's Film Festival, France.
Chicago International Film Festival, USA.
BP Expo, London, UK.
Norwich Women's Film Festival, UK.
Melbourne Film Festival Australia, (selected for Kino awards).
Birmingham International Film & Television Festival, UK.
Foyle Film festival, Ireland
The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany.
Leeds International Film Festival
'The World is My Home' The International Exile Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
The Third Woman has been shown & discussed at:
University Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
Leeds University, UK
Hall Place Studios, UK
World University Services
London School of Economics, UK
Sheffield University, UK
Luton University, UK
'Women & Islam', Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm,Sweden
Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Institute of Contemporary Arts), Berlin, Germany
International Conference of Photography, Graz, Austria
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography', Japan
'...east of here..: (re)imagining the 'orient', YYZ (gallery) , Toronto, Canada 'reinventing britain', Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, USA
'New British Cinema', Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
'The World is My Home: the Internatinal Exile Film Festival', Gothenburg, Sweden
Festival of Iranian Cineaste in Diaspora (FICD),
travelling in Montreal,Ottawa, and Toronto
Short Films
2003
the predator (forthcoming)
Feature Film
2002-2003
Script in development:
the last digit, in collaboration with Christor Williams