SARA RAHBAR
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EDUCATION
2004-2005 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
1996-2000 The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2020
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The Space Between Us, Carbon 12, Dubai
2018
Carry Me Home, Dallas Contemporary, Texas
2017
Salvation, Carbon 12, Dubai
2014
Swarming, Carbon 12, Dubai
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2012
Restless Violence, Carbon 12, Dubai
2011
I have no faith left for the devil to take, Sara Rahbar, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna
2010
Whatever we had to lose we lost, and in a moonless sky we marched, Sara Rahbar, Carbon 12, Dubai
2009
Contradicting Realities, Tyler Art Gallery, Suny Oswego, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2023
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American Beauty,From Robert Capa to Banksy,The Centro Culturale Altinate/San Gaetano, Padua Itally
Manifesto DESERTION, EDEN 2: Moving Billboard, ZETA Contemporary Art Center, Albania
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2022
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Flags, Boghossian Foundation,Villa Empain, Brussels
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2021
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The Hilger Collection, Institute of Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (MGML), Slovenia
Arrivals , Katonah Museum of Art , Katonah, New York
A Bout de Souffle, Carbon 12 , Dubai
NADA x Foreland, Catskill, New York
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2020
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I want to feel alive again, Lyles and King, New York
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum, New York
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2019
Oh say can you see?,Fraction Art Projects, New York
Gazeli art house Baku, Azerbaijan
Fragile Frontiers, Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan
Burk Prize, Museum of art and Design, New York
Perilous Bodies, Ford Foundation Gallery, Center for Social Justice, New York
2018
Loud Silence Activism Through Art, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Pennsylvania
We Too, Salsali Private Museum, Dubai
Motherland in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland
Art not jail, 107 Norfolk Street, New York
2050 A Brief History of the Future,National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
Letters,Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi
Museum of Art and Design,Surface/Depth /The Decorative after Miriam Schapiro, New York
2017
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah,UAE
Letters, ATHR Gallery, Saudi Arabia
Alles oder Immer, Schau Fenster (Raum für Kunst), Berlin
Colgate Alumni Collect, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Beautiful Stranger,De Wieger Museum, Netherlands
Sculpture, Salsali Private Museum, Dubai
Versus Rodin, Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia
2016
The Davis ReDiscovered,TheDavis Museum at Wellesley College, USA
A History: Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou,Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2050 A Brief History of the Future,Palazzo Reale, Milano Italy
2050 A brief history of the future, The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Belgium
A History, Art, Architecture,Design from the 80's to now, Musee National D'Art Moderne, Paris
2015
2050 A Brief History of the Future,The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
51st Venice Biennale, Venice
I lost an arm on my last trip home, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York
A History, Art, Architecture,Design from the 80's to now, Musee National D'Art Moderne, Paris
2014
The Shade of the moon,Changwon Sculpture Biennial,Korea
A History, Art, Architecture,Design from the 80's to now, Musee National D'Art Moderne, Paris
Sharja Art Foundation, SAF Art Spaces, Sharja
2013
Aya Haidar, Huda Lutfi, Sara Rahbar, bischoff/weiss,London
Cut Teeth, The Great Jones Space, New York
Global Warming, MannheiMer Kunstverein, Germany
Tales of Another Identity, LARM galleri, Copenhagen
Sharjah Biennial 11, Re:emerge Towards a New Cultural Cartography, Sharjah, UAE
2012
The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art,
Gallery of Modern Art & Queensland Art Gallery Queensland, Australia
Come Invest in Us You'll Strike Gold, Hilger BROT Kunsthalle, Vienna
Q Contemporary,Forward, Beirut,Lebanon
Sex, Dui's and Videotape II, Brot-Kunsthalle, Vienna
SPM, (Salsali Private Museum) Life is too short, Dubai
Gloria Berlin, Der arge Weg der Erkenntnis, Berlin
Nose Bleed, Fuse Gallery, New York
SEX, DUI's and VIDEOTAPE, New York
The elephant in the dark, The Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India
2011
SPM, (Salsali Private Museum ) Show Off, Dubai
It ain't fair: Materialism, OHWOW, Miami
Activating Medi(t)ation, Examining Asian Cultural Perspectives in the M-shaped Age,
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Freedom to Create, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo Bosnia
The Istanbul Summer Exhibition, Sanat Limani-Antrepo 5, Istanbul Turkey
WestEnd, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
Art As Witness, Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institute/ Max Muller,New Delhi
Freedom to Create, Ana Tzarev Gallery, New York
Freedom to Create, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2010
The Freedom to Create, Cairo Opera House, Egypt
The Silk Road, Lille3000/Tri Postal, France
The State, Traffic Gallery I, Dubai
The Unbearable Lightness of being, Carbon 12 Dubai, Dubai
Die obscure objects of my desire, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna
Hope!, At the palais des arts et du festival Dinard, France
Iran Inside Out, The Farjam Collection, Dubai
Elles@centrepompidou,The Center Pompidou, Paris
Never Run Away, Reena Kallat and Sara Rahbar, Stux gallery, New York
The Promise of Loss, A Contemporary Index of Iran, Arario Gallery New York
Eye of the Beholder, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, New York
2009
The Edible Woman, Kravets /Wehby Gallery, New York
The Promise of Loss, A Contemporary Index of Iran, brot-kunsthalle, Vienna
Iran Inside out: Influences of Homeland and Disaporic realities, Artists, DePaul University Museum, Chicago
The Seen and the Hidden: (Dis)covering the Veil, The Austrian Cultural Forum , New York
Iran Inside out: Influences of Homeland and diasporic realities, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Collective de 5 artistes Iranians, Galerie Hussenot, Paris
Sara Rahbar-Love arrived and how red, Recent works, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna
Unveiled: New art from the Middle East, The Saatchi Gallery, London
Artist in Exile, Arario Gallery, New York
Indian Popular Culture, and beyond: The Untold (the rise of) Schisms, Sala Alcal 31 Madrid, Spain
2008
What was the word I want, Galerie Hussenot, Paris
Look what love did to us once again, Cramer Contemporary, Geneva Switzerland
In Transition Russia, National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow
In Transition Russia, Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg
Everywhere is War (and rumors of war). Bodhi Art, Mumbai, India
On a clear day you can see forever, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna
Emerging Discourse: Multiple and Overlapping Contemplations from the Diaspora, Bodhi Art, New York
Raid Projects, Los Angeles
This Case of Conscience - Spiritual Flushing and the Remonstrance, Queens Museum of Art, New York
Regional Delicacies, XVA gallery, Bastakiya, Dubai
Human Rights Awareness Tour, a traveling exhibition
The Veil: Visible and invisible spaces, a traveling exhibition
Persian Arts Festival: Weaving the Common Thread, Queens Museum of Art, New York
2007
Continuity and Change: Islamic Tradition in Contemporary Art,
The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York
Hyphenation Exhibition, University of Maryland, Union Gallery, Maryland
Iranian Literary Arts Festival, Theater Artaud, San Francisco
Inclusion Exclusion, Bronco exhibit gallery Cal Poly Pomona, Los Angeles
Celluloid, Gallery One, San Francisco
Emergency Room, PS1 MoMA New York
Emergence, Current Gallery, Baltimore MD
Beyond Persia, Gallery One, San Francisco
Changing Climate, Changing Colors, Henry Street Settlement, New York
2006
Everything, All at Once, QMA Biennial, Queens Museum of Art, New York
Nobody's Enemy, Queens Museum of Art, New York
The Shelter Rock Art Gallery, New York
2004
See Williamsburg, Lunar Base Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
COLLECTIONS
The British Museum, UK
The Center Pompidou, Paris
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Davis Museum at Wellesley College, USA
The Devi Art Foundation, India
Sharjah Art Foundation, sharjah
The public collection of the MGML – Museums and Galleries of Ljubljana
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GRANTS/AWARDS
2024, Visions of Justice Award Winner
2018, The Dean Collection
2021, The artists Fellowship
2021, CERF The Artist safety net
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