SARA RAHBAR

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​2025

Kunstplaza, Between origin and expressiveness: The return of strong cultural symbols in the art world, By Joachim Rodriguez y Romero

Tajrobe Magazine, Number 45, Revenge with Art, By Saleh Tasbeehe

Art Forum, Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces 2025 Fellowships

Fairfield university News, America250: The Promise and Paradox

Westport Journal,Enough Already-at MoCA\CT encourages visitors to break barriers

 

​2024​

New York Times,Why the Flag Looks Like That. And Like That. And Like That, By Ezekiel Kweku

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2023​

Art et exil, The Center Pompidou, Seham Boutata

Activist, Artist, Sara Rahbar, Shargh Daily, Hossein Ganji

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2022​

La Villa Empain brandit l’étendard, Le Suricate Magazine

Live from the studio: Creating Collages with Sara Rahbar, North Carolina Museum of Art

In conversation with Baashgaah Gallery

Selvedge Magazine, Issue #106

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2021​

Art Dubai, Portraits

Four corners books, Raise them up: Flags in contemporary art, by Francesca Gavin

Canvas Magazine, Sara Rahbar

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2020​​

Time Out Dubai, six must see exhibitions in Dubai this month, By Reema Rahman

Super Projects NYC, Sara Rahbar , By jack & Olivia

New York Times, Three art gallery shows to see right now, By Will Heinrich

Social Distancing studio visits, Caroline Kipp

Drunter & Druber, Part 10
Wellesley Magazine, Reinventing the flag,B y M. Rachael Arauz

Abu Dhabi Art, Artist of the week, Sara Rahbar

Untitled podcast, interview with Marie Lafontaine

The elephant, Is Migration The Most Politically Charged Subject in the World?

by Charlotte Jansen

Artnet News, Editors Picks: 17 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week

ArtfixDaily ,'Oh say, can you see?',American flag reimagined in Faction's new public art project

Sick Magazine

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2019​

Galerie magazine,3 Fascinating New York Exhibitions Focusing on Craft, by Paul Laster

Floating Signifier,By Caleb Matthern, Alserkal Avenue, Folio

Canvas Magazine, One on One,Alexandra Chaves 

ArtNet,The 7 Best Works at NADA House 2019,Caroline Goldstein

Transit, Art of the Desert

Galerie Magazine, Galerie’s Guide to All the Art Fairs to See During Frieze Week, By Lucy Rees

Art News, Frieze Week Art Fair Cheat Sheet, By Claire Selvin

Islamic arts magazine, Solo Exhibition Sara Rahbar at NADA on Governors Island

Bmoreart, In“Perilous Bodies,”International artists pull up the roots of intolerance,

By Lyric Prince

Forbes Magazine, Carbon 12 Gallery Celebrates 10 Years In The Art World, by Ann Binlot

Weltkunst Magazine, Generation Golf 2.0, By Laura Storfner

Cultured Magazine,Our Highlights from Art Dubai, By Osman Can Yerbakan 

Alserkal Avenue, FolioThe first collectors By Katrina Kufer

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2018​

Mapanare,Sara Rahbar Creates Mesmerizing,Thought Provoking Work Out Of The Detritus Of War,

By Patrick Ogle

The National, Why Sara Rahbar is hanging the American flag for safety, tolerance and togetherness -Her exhibition ‘Carry Me Home’ explores violence, terror and injustice. By Melissa Gronlund

Good Trouble Magazine, Celebrate the culture of resistance, Issue 22, UNMANIFESTO

Glasstire,Sara Rahbar at Dallas Contemporary,Anna Nelson Daniel

Islamic Art’s Magazine,Sara Rahbar: Carry me home

The New Yorker, Arts,Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro

Art News, Beyond the Surface: Miriam Schapiro’s Enduring Legacy, By Claire Selvin 

Forbes, Artists Reimagine The American Flag At The Dallas Art Fair,By Ann Binlot

Artdesk, Issue 12, Nine questions for thought on guns and violence in America

D Magazine,comments on America, at the Meyerson and the Dallas Contemporary,

By lydsay Knecht

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2017​

PBS, Articulate, Season 2, Finding Sara Rahbar​

ELLE Magazine,10 Female Artists to Watch,These are the art stars to know,

By Emily Mcdermott

Othering & Belonging, Expanding the circle of human concern,Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society University of California, Berkeley

Gulf News-Arts, By Jyoti Kalsi, Sara Rahbar expands the acts of violence she has experienced

into universal ones

Sabine B Vogal, Sara Rahbar über ihre neuen Skulpturen + das US-Reiseverbot

ARTFORUM, Critics' Picks, Salvation, Text by: By Katrina Kufer

Harper’s Bazaar Arabia,What to see this weekend in Dubai, by Anna Brady and Ayesha Shaikh

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2016 ​

A Woman's Thing,The Fight Issue

AUTRE,Love is something heavy: by Keely Shinners/Interview by Oliver Maxwell Kupper 

W magazine/Editor's Letter: Stars and Stripes/ W's editor in chief on the American Dream

 

2015 

Mu in the city, Art and geopolitics at the Royal Museum of fine art Belgium, By Elisabeth Martin

Art Report/Sara Rahbar On The Transformative Power Of Art/By Jenny Held

Art Report, 11 Artworks That Display The Symbol Of American Freedom, By Alexis Laura Rubin

VICE, Artist Sculpts Her Own American Flag By Sami Emory

The British Museum Magazine, spring/summer, Emblems of Identity, By Fahmida Suleman

Artsy Editorial, NADA New York, an Iranian-American Artist Uses Tools to Question Social Structures, Bridget Gleeson 

Selection magazine, Reflections on aspiration and tragedy, By Lain Akerman, 

Jadaliyya, The Workers Trap: An Interview with Sara Rahbar, By Danna Lorch

 

2014 

The national, Sara Rahbars latest works delve into the hard facts of life and love,

By Anna Seaman

Gulf News, Sara Rahbar's -Swarming reflects human conditions, By Jyoti Kalsi

The Courtauldian, Sara Rahbar on art and life at the British museum,By Ami Mehta 

Harper's Bazaar Art, When no space becomes too much space By Katrina Kufer

Ahlan, Ahlan talks contemporary art with Sara Rahbar ahead of her Dubai sole exhibition

Art Radar, Batons, bones and guns: an interview with mixed-media artist Sara Rahbar,

By Lisa Pollman 

BBC, Tamasha

Harper’s Bazaar Art,Bischoff Weiss, London,Aya Haidar, Huda Lutfi, Sara Rahbar,

By Jareh Das

 

2013 

QUESTRE, Sara Rahbar, by Sonja Steppan 

Rooms magazine, Sara Rahbar Flags of Salvation, By Jesc Bunyard

The Culture trip, Cause and Effect: An Interview with Sara Rahbar, By Rajesh Punj

James Pitter, Interview with sara rahbar

CNN, Leone Lakhani meets Sara Rahbar,an Iranian-born artist who uses the U.S. flag as her canvas 

Hurriyet Daily News, Globalization questioned at Sharjah Biennial, By Hatice Utkan 

Lalita Kala Contemporary/#54/National Academy of Art/New Delhi 

Le Quotidien de l'Art /Numero 344 / Vendredi 22 Mars 2013 "Une Biennale De Sharjah Tout En Musicalite" 

Connoissance Des Arts

Canvas Magazine, Artist Monographs 

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2012 ​

Hyperallergic, Piecing America Together by Hrag Vartanian

Art Agenda, abc-Art Berlin contemporary

Canvas Magazine, (cover & profile) Blood and Tears

The National, Iranian artist Sara Rahbar featured at Dubai's Carbon 12 gallery,

By Christopher Lord

Gulf News,Perpetually at war, By Jyoti Kalsi

Harper's Bazaar Art, Issue #2, By Arsalan Mohammmad 

Diva, A conversation & collaboration with Nadine Knotzer & Sara Rahbar

Whats On, Confessions of an artistic mind 

art.es, issue 48 - 49

 

2011 

BLACK INK, The Art Issue, What to buy now, Fall/Winter 

Berlin Art Link, On the road series: Sara Rahbar

Flash Art, Top 100 Artists

Free People, The november catalog, through the decades

L Agenda, Art Dubai Three Works In The Spotlight, Sulaf Zakharia

Open Magazine, Nowhere Girl, By Avantika Bhuyan

 

2010 

Art Asia Pacific, A Faded Utopia By Thorsten Albertz

Masionneuve, Iranian Artist Sara Rahbars Textile Revolution By Madeline Coleman

BBC Persian, Sara Rahbar, A Video Diary By Amir Haqiqat

Guernica, Fighting Flags, by Tamzin Baker

Telematin , France 2, Hope with Sarah Doraghi

Time out Dubai, Behind the artwork

Flash Art, Sara Rahbar & Shaheen Merali

M / The New York Art World, Never Run Away, Stux New York,By Megan Marie Garwood 

The National, Weird and wonderful: latest art in Dubai, By Ed Lake

Whats On Dubai, Flying the Flag, BY Cathrine Jarvie

The Financial Times, Capital pains, By Georgina Adams

Contemporary practice, Beyond Prisms: In search of Alternatives in Critique By Jyoti Dhar

L Agenda, whatever we had to lose we lost, and in a moonless sky we marched, 

recent works by Sara Rahbar, By Shaheen Merali

brown book magazine, Sara Rahbar

 

2009

Yo Dona, Memorias De Iran, by Angela Aldama

Eikon Issue#68, Sara Rahbar,The Lady Doth Protest Too Much.. Methinks, By Shaheen Merali 

Woman, Die Kunstist Weiblich

Art Asia Pacific, Sara Rahbar: Love arrived and How Red, By Sara Raza, Issue# 65

The New York Times, Multilayered and Multicultural,By Karen Rosenburg

Art Asia Pacific, Artists in Exile, By Meenakshi Thirukode, Issue#64

KunstKompakt, Sara Rahbar: Kunst als politisches sprachrohr, By Eva Komarek

The Independent, Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, Saatchi Gallery, By Charles Darwent 

Sleek Magazine, Local/Global Issue, Middle East, 

 

2008

Sara Rahbar In Conversation With Ana Finel Honigman, Saatchi Online Daily Magazine

V magazine, New Art, by Ana Finel Honigman Winter

Ninja Lab Magazine Issue#4,Stand Alone , by Pierre Cialdella

Coloring outside the Lines Issue#4,by Melanie Madison

WestEast Magazine, Persian Art, by Ren Wan 

Alef Magazine, A Woman of Substance, by Ana Finel Honigman

Art Asia Pacific, Issue# 57,Sara Rahbar:Weaving the Flag, by Jaishri Abichandani

The Kuwait Review, Hello Dubai, by Ana Finel Honigman

Art Daily, Precursor to bill of rights makes its return

Voice of America

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2007​

Yen Magazine , The Art of War, by Rebecca Couche, issue# 30

Iran Times , The Iranian American Artist be- gifts her work for the sake of Human Rights

Oziran, Art for the Sake of Humanity, by Sanaz Fotouhi

Payvand, An Interview with Human Rights Artist Sara Rahbar, by Ali Moayedian

Shrug Magazine, My Iran, I am not Ahmadinejad, I am an Iranian, 

I am not President Bush, I am an American, by Oliver Shamlou

Abort Magazine, Abort Magazine's NA talks with Controversial Artist Sara Rahbar

Payvand, Profile: Sara Rahbar, Iranian-American Human Rights Artist, by Ali Moayedian  

Pars Arts, Iranian Artists at the Queens Museum (II), by Sepideh Saremi 

Pars Arts, Sara Rahbar at the Queens Museum, by Sepideh Saremi

PS1 MoMA, Emergency Room by Debora Gilbert 

Namak, Contradicting Realities, by Monique Soltani

Payvand, The Axis of Art & Culture? By Ali Moayedian

Venus Zine, Sara Rahbar: The Activist-Artist, by Sheba White

Time Out New York, Queens International: Everything All At Once, by Kate Loenstein, Issue# 589

 

2006

The New York Times, Art From Everywhere, All From Queens, by Martha Schwendener

BBC Persian, Rozeh Haftome, by Nazanin Mazhari 

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PUBLICATIONS​​

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2025,The Short Story of Contemporary Art: Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes & Techniques By Susie Hodge, The Orion Publishing Group Limited
2024,Textile Culture Backup, A publication by Textile Culture Net​

By Susie Hodge, The Orion Publishing Group Limited

2024,The Farjam Collection of Islamic and Middle Eastern Art, Volume II , Edited by Venetia Porter, Nada Shabout, Sarah Rogers and Linda Komaroff, Yale University Press

2022,This is America: Re-Viewing the Art of the United States, by Keri Watson and

Keidra Daniels Navaroli,

Oxford University Press

2021,The art of protest, Political art and activism, The Power and Purpose of Political Art, Gestalten

2021,Unravelling Women's Art: Creators, Rebels, & Innovators in Textile , by P.L. Henderson

2017,Textiles of the Middle East and Central Asia The Fabric of Life, By Fahmida Suleman,

Thames and Hudson       

2017, Salvation, Carbon 12

2015, 2050 A Brief History of the Future

2015, The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Belgium                                                             

2015, The great game, Venice Biennial, Venice 

2015, Constructing Identity in Iranian-American Self-Narrative,by Maria D. Wagenknech,

Artwork By sara rahbar

2014, The shade of the moon, Changwon sculpture biennial, Moonshine

2014,Transnational Writing Program Administration,Published by Utah state university press, Artwork By sara rahbar

2013, Contemporary Iranian Art, New Perspectives By,Hamid Keshmirshekan, Saqi Books 

2013,The anguish in the American Dream,Written By Robert Jensen,Artwork on cover

By Sara Rahbar            

2013, Confronting the Clash:The Suppressed Voices of Iran by Sinan Ziza and Sepa Sama 

2013, Re:emerge, Towards a new Cultural Cartography, Sharjah Biennial 11                             

2013, Restless Violence, Sara Rahbar by Carbon 12

2013, The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery/

Gallery of Modern Art

2012, Tehran Art, A Popular Revolution, By Ehsan Lajevardi, Contemporary art publications       

2011, Meditation. 2011 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts                     

2011, Westend, Museum on the Seam                                                                                    

2011, I have no faith left for the devil to take, Sara Rahbar, Art Asia Pacific publishing LLC 

2011, Despite moments of clarity, there is no "ism" in this book, 100 New Artists,

by Francesca Gavin, Laurance King 2010, Art As Witness, published by Tulika Books and edited

by Parthiv Shah and Sana Das                                

2010, Whatever we had to lose we lost, and in a moonless sky we marched, Carbon 12, 

2010, Hope! Une exposition d art contemporain sur l Espoir, Skira Flammarion  

2009, The Promise of Loss, A Contemporary Index of Iran, brot-kunsthalle, Vienna 

2009, Unveiled: New art from the Middle East, The Saatchi Gallery, London                

2009, Different sames:New perspectives on contemporary Iranian art,by Hossain Amirsadeghi,TransGlobe Publishing

2009, Contemporary art in the Middle East, by ARTWORLD, Black Dog Publishing, Suzanne Cotter, Lindsey Moore, Nat Muller

2007, War on Error, By Melody Moezzi, The University of Arkansas Press, Artwork By Sara Rahbar