RESUMÉ
EDUCATION
2006
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA / MFA, Painting, Interdisciplinary Art
2001
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI / BFA, Illustration
2000
Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece / Painting, Printmaking *Ambassadorial Rotary Scholar
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
”What A Time To Be Alive,” Fans Only, Portland, OR
2023
"Aftercare,” Helen’s Costumes, Portland, OR
"طراوت | TARAVAT,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, CA
"طراوت | TARAVAT,” Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, ST Paul, MN
2022
"Peace in the Middle Peace," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Take Care, Negahdar نِگَهدار,” ILY2, Portland, OR
2021
"Are You There Allah? It’s Me, Taravat." Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
2018
"Yeki Bood, Yeki Nabood (Once Was, Once Wasn't)," Jack Fisher Gallery, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
2017
“Westoxicated,” Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA
"Made in Iran, Born in America," Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015
“Not an Arab Spring,” Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2012
“Pathétique” Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011
“The Corrupt Minority,” Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
2010
“Taravat Talepasand: Drawings,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2009
“Situation Critical,” Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA
“Hampah: Ala Ebtekar & Taravat Talepasand,” Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
“To the Martyrs!” Plane Space, New York, NY
2007
“Seeya and Sefeed,” Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
“Taravat Talepasand," Vernissage, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2002
“New Works, From Greece,” Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
”Vote or Suck,” Four Oceans One Family, Portland, OR
”BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY),” curated by Jasmine Wahi and Project for Empty Spaces, National tour stops: New York, NY; Newark, NJ; Washington, DC; Iowa City, Iowa, IA; Kansas City, MO; Los Angeles, CA; Tempe, AZ; Austin, TX; Houston, TX; West Palm Beach, FL; Miami Beach, FL.
”BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY),” in partnership with For Freedoms Congress and Pour Kour, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
”BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY),” in partnership with Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA
2023
“Portrait as Place / Place as Portraiture,” Tufts University Art Galleries at Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA
“Converge 45 2023 Biennial,” Helen’s Costumes, Portland, OR
”Group Shoe 3,” curated by Mario Ayala, House of Seiko, San Francisco, CA
Bumbershoot ”Out of Sight: A Survey of Contemporary Art in the Pacific Northwest,” curated by Emily Zimmerman, Jaleesa Johnston, Rana San, and Roya Amirsolymani, Seattle, WA
”Dude, Where’s My School?” 120710, Berkeley, CA
2022
"Barage Azadi (For Freedom)," Chelsea Market Maker’s Studio, New York, NY
”Curated by Chris Johanson,” Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
”Revolutionary Posters for Iran,” Volta Art Gallery, Valencia, Spain
2021
”I Am…,” Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2020
“Yesterday - Tomorrow,” Baik Art, Los Angeles, CA
“FAULTline Art Show,” Bartolini Gallery, San Rafael Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
2019
“EPOCH,” Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
“Once at Present, Contemporary Art of the Bay Area Iranian Diaspora,” Minnesota Street Projects (MSP), San Francisco, CA
“FAULTline 2,”Shotwell & 20th, San Francisco, CA
“45RPM SoEx Auction,” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
“ART BRIEF IV: Iranian Contemporary San Francisco,” SOMARTS San Francisco, CA
Untitled Art Fair, Zevitas Marcus Gallery; Pier 35, San Francisco, CA
2018
“Bay Area Now 8,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“The Internet Archive’s 2018 Artist In Residence Exhibition,” Evergold Projects at
Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
“In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present,” LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2017
"Why Draw? 500 years of Drawings and Watercolor," Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine
2016
“POWERS | TVAT | DEFAZIO,” Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Vinyl Icons: Persian Pop and Turkish Psychedelia," Vane Gallery, New Castle, UK
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2015
“Bootleg Show,” Printed Matter, Inc., New York, NY
Passport 2015, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
Volta11, Markthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Miami Art Fair, New York, New York
“Amen,” Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA
Volta NY, New York, New York
Azadi va Edalat, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA
2014
“Theory of Survival: Fabrications,” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2013
“New...Now...Next...” Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
“Tessellation Make Up,” Galerie Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey
“Nu Body,” Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Belles Comme Le Jour,” Galerie Une, Zurich, Switzerland
“FAX,” San Francisco Arts Commision Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011
PULSE Miami, FL
“I am who I am: The Portrait Reconsidered,” Steven Zevitas, Boston, MA
“Sea Change II: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition,” Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA
“Sea Change I: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition,” Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA
“Fabrications,” Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA
2010
“2010 California Biennial,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
“I RAN Home (In America),” CoCA Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
“Tehran - New York,” Leila Taghinia-Milano Heller (LTMH) Gallery, New York, NY
“Chahar Ghesmat: Iranian Women Create,” Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT (curated by Afarin Rahmanifar and Elizabeth Peterson)
2009
“I Want You To Want Me,” Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA
“Bad Moon Rising 4,” Galerie Sans Titre, Brussels, Belgium (curated by Jan Van Woensel)
“Femme on Femme,” Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA (curated by Cari Marshall)
2008
“Sexy Time: A Group Effort,” Morgan Lehman, New York, NY
“East of the West,” SomArts, San Francisco, CA (curated by Taraneh Hemami & Anuradha Vikram)
2007
“The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection,” de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
“Three on the Tree,” Plane Space, New York, NY
“Selections from New American Paintings: The MFA Annual, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA
“GRAPHIC: New Bay Area Drawing,” di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
2006
“Cream from the Top,” Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2005
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Murphy Cadogan Award, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Obsessive Patterns,” Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Ephemeral,” Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003
“2003 Oregon Biennial,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2000
“New Paintings,” Blackfish Gallery, Portland OR
“Illustrations,” Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
HONORS & AWARDS
2024
OCF Creative Heights Grant
Regional Arts & Culture Council Arts3C
2023
Early Impact Award, Portland State University Dean’s Council Award for Research, Scholarship, Activity
2022
Career Opportunity Grant, Ford Family Foundation & Oregon Arts Commission
Artist Relief Award, Oregon Arts Commission in partnership with Oregon Community Foundation and the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation
2021
Artist Relief Award, Oregon Arts Commission in partnership with Oregon Community Foundation and the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation
2020
Artadia Artist Relief
2011
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant
2010
Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship
2006
Irene Pijoan Memorial Painting Award
2006
New American Paintings: MFA Annual Competition
2005
Murphy Cadogan Scholarship
2004 - 2005
San Francisco Art Institute, Merit Scholarship
2000
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship
1999 - 2001
Rhode Island School of Design Merit Scholarship
1999
Guilford Handcraft
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art; Los Angeles, CA
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; San Francisco, CA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum of Art; San Francisco, CA
Orange County Museum of Art; Orange County, CA
Tufts University Art Gallery; Boston, MA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art; Brunswick, ME
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
CATALOGS
Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, “طراوت | TARAVAT”
Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, San Francisco State University “Once at Present Contemporary Art of the Bay Area Iranian Diaspora”
Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, “In the Fields of Empty Days: Kings, Heroes, Demons and Saints in Iranian Art”
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, “Bay Area Now 8”
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, “Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolor at Bowdoin College”
Orange County Museum of Art, “2010 California Biennial”
de Young Museum, “The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection”
RESIDENCY
2024
Anderson Ranch Art Center, Master Class: Business of Art Making with Mickalene Thomas & Jasmine Wahi., Snowmass Village, CO
2018
Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA
FILM & DOCUMENTARY
Retro Report: When Art Fuels Anger, Who Should Prevail? with Andres Serrano
In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present, Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art (LACMA)
What You Know: Interview with Taravat Talepasand by Laila Irvani, www.ruokay.com
Dr. Octagon (Kool Keith), Dan the Automator, DJ Qbert Album; Art Director
Pearls on the Ocean Floor by Robert Adanto
Voices of America, Persian News Network interview by Monaliza Noormohammadi
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 - Present
Portland State University, Schnitzer School of Art + Design, College of the Arts, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Art Practice, Portland, OR
2023-2024
Portland State University, Schnitzer School of Art + Design, College of the Arts, Studio MFA Coordinator, Portland, OR
2023 - 2014
Portland State University, Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design, College of the Arts, Studio MFA Coordinator
2022
Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University, Adjunct Professor, Graduate Studies, Portland, OR
2020 - 2022
Portland State University, Adjunct Professor Art + Design, College of the Arts, Portland, OR
2018 - 2019
San Francisco Art Institute, Department Chair of Painting, San Francisco, CA
2016 - 2019
San Francisco Art Institute, Tenure-Track faculty, Painting, San Francisco, CA
2010 - 2016
San Francisco Art Institute, Adjunct Professor, San Francisco, CA
2012 - 2015
San Francisco Art Institute, Pre-College Drawing, San Francisco, CA
2010
Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship
2009 - 2016
California College of Art, Graduate Studies, San Francisco, CA
2007 - 2016
California College of Art, Adjunct Professor, Painting & Drawing Oakland, CA
2006 - 2010
Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Perspective Drawing, Online Division
2005
San Francisco Art Institute, Teaching Assistant Advanced Painting, San Francisco, CA
2000 - 2002
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Young Adult Summer Program, Portland, OR
1999 - 2000
Rhode Island School of Design, Advanced Drawing, Providence RI
LECTURES
2024
Listening Lab, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2023
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Portland State University, The Arts at the Vanguard of Change: A Conversation on Intersectional Justice, with Kiara Hill and Taravat Talepasand at Portland State University, Portland, OR
WOMEN - LIFE - FREEDOM: Defiance Through Art by Iranian Women Noon Concert at Portland State University, Portland, OR
Cultural Tensions Series: Art and the new authoritarianism, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2022
Lewis & Clark, Portland, OR
World Oregon, Woman, Life, Freedom: Perspectives on the Protests in Iran, Portland, OR
2021
Northwest Art Council
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Southern Oregon University, Albany, OR
2020
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2019
Painting Symposium / Situational: The Body in Contemporary Painting with Jenny Saville, San Francisco, CA
National Forum, on Advancing Art Libraries and Curated Web Archives, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2018
Bay Area Now 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Artist Using Digital Archives, Tate Modern, London
2017
Diversity & Art Lecture, Union College, Schenectady, NY
2016
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2015
Berkeley University, CA
Stanford University, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
2014
‘Notes From the Studio,’ California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
2013
Stanford University, CA
2011
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2010
Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellow at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
CoCA Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
2009
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2007
California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
2006
Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Blue, Max, “At these SF galleries, women artists take center stage,” The San Francisco Examiner, June 6
Goldberg, Michelle, “The Censoring of an Iranian-American Artist” The New York Times, February 13
Filipovic, Jill, “Fear of a Female Body,” jill.substack.com, February 14
Amna Khalid + Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, “The Point of Education Is Not to Reduce Harm,” The chronicle of Higher Education, February 23
Panahi, Rita, “Sky News Australia: ‘Surprising’ people give such a ‘quick response to fundamental Islam’: Iranian artist’s art censored , March 3
Gutkin, Len, “The Blasphemer,” The Chronicle, February 8
Dernbach Z., Becky, “‘Female Autonomy’ Versus ‘Betrayal’: Macalester Closes, Then Reopens, Art Gallery After Pushback From Muslim Students,” www.sahanjournal.com, February 8
Desai Gray, Neirin, “Muslim Students Force College to Close Iranian American Artist’s Exhibition Featuring Veiled Women Flashing…,” Daily Mail UK, February 14
Camp, Emma, “After Muslim Students Complained That an Art Exhibit Was ‘Harmful,’ Macalester College Shut It Down,” www.reason.com, February 9
”Minnesota Muslims Panic Over ‘TARAVAT’ Art Exhibition,” www.genderdesk.com February 10
Piper, Greg, “Another Minnesota College Censors Art to Prevent ‘Non-Consensual Viewing’ bny Muslim Students,” www.justthenews.com, February 11
Rivera M., Sizanne, :”Colleges Can Have Both Freedom of Expression and Compassion,” The Mac Weekly, February 14
National Coalition Against Censorship + College Art Association, “Letter to the Director and Curator at Law Warschaw Gallery at Macalester College,”February 22
Gallivan, Joseph, “Portland State Professor’s Art Ruffles Hijabs,” Portland Tribune, February 19
El Bahraoui, Marouane, “Religious Representation in Academic: Why Context Matters,” The Mac Weekly, February 2
Evelyn Kent + Leydon Street, “‘TARAVAT’ Gallery Raises Conversation and Controversy,” The Mac Weekly. February 16
McLaughlin, Sarah, “Yet Another Campus Blasphemy Dispute in Minnesota: Macalester College Covers Up Iranian-American’s feminist Art Exhibition After Student Complaints,” www.thefire.org, February 9
Sengupta, Meenakshi, “Who is Taravat Talepasand? Iranian-American Artist’s Art Show Closed After Muslim Students Say it Caused Them ‘Deep Pain’,” www.meaww.com, February 14
Swordfisk, Katy, “Taravat Talepasand Holds Space for Critical Thinking & Dialogue - Not Censorship,” www.pdx.edy/news, February 20
Friedman, Julie, “Nudity and Nonconsensual Viewing,” www.quilette.com, April 28
”Another Campus Art vs. Religion Fight, This Time at Macalester,” www.racketmn.com, February 9
O’Neill, Brendan. :” Doing The Ayatollahs’ Dirty Work,” www.spiked-online.com, February 21
Lofgren, Anna, “College Sensor’s Art Exhibit With Content Warning, Curtains Following Muslim Students’ Complaint,” www.thecollegefix.com, February 24
Martinez, Cal, “Observer: LB Talks Support For Muslim Students, Structural Changes,” Macalester Weekly, February 9
PG, “The Blasphemer,” www.thepassivevoice.com, February 14
Dong, Cynthia, “Cens(art)ship in Student Showcases: The Fragile Line Between Creative Liberty and Offense,” www.34st.com, April 13
2022
Herreld, Macie, “Portlanders Protest for Iranian Women’s Rights,” November 16, PSU Vanguard
Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies , San Francisco State University “Once at Present Contemporary Art of the Bay Area Iranian Diaspora," pages 126-131, 143
Ball, Fiona ”PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST صلح with Taravat Talepasand,” June 29, www.ybca.org
2021
New American Paintings, Open Pacific Coast Issue No. 157, www.newamericanpaintings.com
2019
Van Straaten, Laura, “San Francisco Art Fairs Buzz With Bay Area Collectors,
L.A. Artists and Patti Smith Performance,” January 18, www.hollywoodreporter
Curiel, Jonathan, “YBCA’s Bay Area Now 8 Is Unafraid of the Intersection of Race and Class,”
January 30, SFWeekly
“New American Painters Artist on View: Taravat Talepasand,” www.newamericanpaintings.com
2018
Iravani, Lailam “What You Know,” September 28, www.khabarkeslan.com
"Art Brief IV: Iranian Contemporary San Francisco,” December www.advocartsy.com
Desmarais, Charles, “YBCA’s ‘Bay Area Now 8’: A Bad Show redeemed by Good Art,” September 20, www.sfchronicle.com
Devine, Sam, “Bay Area Artists Have Taken Over Yerba Buena,” September 18, www.brokeassstuarts.com
“Past and Present Iranian Art at LA Museum,” May 18, www.financialtribune.com
“LACMA Exhibition Explores Present-Day Iranian Society,” May 19, www.kayhanlife.com
“Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces Participating Artists for Upcoming Triennial,” June 5, www.artforum.com
Locker, Melissa, “The Internet Archive is helping these artists get inspired by digital history,” July, 3 www.fastcompany.com
Debczak, Michele,”The Internet Archive’s Billions of Web Pages Inspired a New Art Exhibition, July 9, www.mentalfloss.com
“The Internet Archive’s 2018 Artist in Residence Exhibition,” July 27, www.wsimag.com
“The Internet Archive’s AIR Exhibition,” July www.sdarts.org
Desmarais, Charles, “Talepasand takes on pleasure, religion and Iran at Jack Fischer Gallery,”June 5, www.sfchronicle.com
Desmarais, Charles, “YBCA Announces Artists in Influential Triennial Exhibition,”June 5, www.sfchronicle.com
Shaw, Anny, "Los Angeles County Museum of Art hopes to ‘change American perceptions of Iran’ with new show," May 3, www.theartnewspaper.com
"Past and Present Iranian Art at LA Museum," May 19, www.financialtribune.com
Parvaneh, Fred, "LACMA Exhibition Explores Present-Day Iranian Society," May 20, www.kayhanlife.com
Premiyak, Liza, "Islamiq Girrrls," May 21, www.thecalvertjournal
"Retrospective," May 1, www.artpapers.org
2017
Desmarais, Charles, "Guerrero Gallery Exhibits Offer Critical Views of Migration," May 4,
San Francisco Chronicle
Gaarchik, Leah, "At San Francisco Art Institute, The Disruptors are Honored," May 2, San Francisco Chronicle
Mizota, Sharon, “Art That Forces Us To Consider What We Think We Know,” February 4, www.latimes.com
Jenison, David, “Blasphemous Drug Art of Taravat Talepasand,” February 6, www.prohbtd.com
Jenison, David, “When Life Gives You Poppy, Make Pop Art,” March 1, www.prohbtd.com
Jenison, David, “Taravat Talepasand: The Meth to her Madness,” March 15, www.prohbtd.com
Jenison, David, “Wipe Your Feet on the Crying Kim Persian Rug,” July 5, www.prohbtd.com
“Taravat Talepasand at Guerrero Gallery,” April 26, www.blouinartinfo.com
2016
Desmarais, Charles, “Untitled, Art coming to the Bay,” October 26, San Francisco Chronicle
Hacia, Graham, “Art School Reunion,” May 17, San Francisco Magazine, p.17
Dupree, Claire, “News: Vinyl Icons @Vane Gallery,” April 21, Narc Magazine
Art Editorial “Persian Pop! Turkish Psychadelia,” April, www.thecrackmagazine.com
Irvine-Fortescue, Camilla, “Cultural Fusion,” www.vane.com
“Vinyl Icons: Persian Pop and Turkish Psychedelia,” April, www.chroniclelive.co.uk
“Vinyl Icons: Persian Pop and Turkish Psychedelia,” April, www.themindofmilla.com
“Vinyl Icons: Persian Pop and Turkish Psychedelia Part III,” April, www.themindofmilla.com
“Vinyl Icons: Persian Pop and Turkish Psychedelia,” June 2, www.internationaltimes.it
Verma, Rahul, “Amazing Images from Iran’s Swinging ‘70s,” July 20. www.bbc.com
2015
“San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, Passport 2015: Japantown,” October 21, www.sfartenthusiast.com
Pereira, Lorenzo, “Volta 11 in Basel,” June, www.widewalls.ch
ARTBAHRAIN, “Volta 11,” May 31, www.artbahrain.org
San Francisco Chronicle, “Bay Area Arts and Entertainment Picks,” May 20, San Francisco Chronicle
Tedford Harrison, Matthew, “Mexican Collective CAMINO Loves the Baby Jesus,” May 19, www.sfweekly.com
Levine, Brett, “Taravat Talepasand Toys With Our Fears, at Peta Pictoris in Birmingham,” May 15, www.burnaway.org
Helander, Bruce, “DUTCH TREAT,” May 8, The Huffington Post
Lampe, Lilly, “An Artist’s Take on Iranian Identity, Detailed and Filled with Drugs,” May 8, Hyperallergic
Amirkhani, Jordan, “Taravat Talepasand: Not an Arab Spring at Beta Pictoris Gallery,” May 6, www.dailyserving.com
Ogle, Patrick, “Art Miami Heads North,” May 6, www.mapanare.us
McDaniel, Mandy, “Iranian-American’s Art Exhibit Opening at Beta Pictoris,” April 16, www .artsbham.com
2014
Carlson, Michelle, “Iranian Dissent at Southern Exposure,” September 17, www.kqed.com SFAQ,
“First of Fall-San Francisco,” September, www.sfaq.us
Xiao, An, “An Iranian, American Artist Revisits Images from the 1979 Revolution,” October 21, Hyperallergic
Alangoo, “Theory of Survival: Fabrications, A Project by Taraneh Hemami,”
October 16, www.alangoo.wordpress.com
2013
Carlson, Michelle, “Body Politic,” Hyphen Magazine, The Sex Issue No. 27, p.40-45
2012
ADMIN, ‘Taravat Talepasand Pethetique,” www.sfartenthusiast.com, May 24
2011
Sarrah Zadeh, "Taravat Talepasand," Zan Magazine, NOV/DEC, Issue No. 1, p.61-63
Swanhuyser, Hiya, "Ten Years, Part Deux," SF Weekly (Night & Day section), July 13, p. 17
Cate McQuaid, "Remaking History by Themselves," Boston Globe, May 11
Gabrielle Selz, "The Outsider Insider: New Work by Taravat Talepasand," Huffington Post Arts, May 25
Rebecca Goldschmidt, “Big Things Ahead: Taravat,” May 5, www.bigbigbigthings.com
Sanaz Khalaj-Santos, “The Corrupt Minority,” July, www.persianesque.com
"Exhibition Spotlight: Fabrications at Marx & Zavattero," The Huffington Post, February 4
Wood, Sura, “Coming soon to an art gallery near you,” Bay Area Reporter, January 13, p. 23
Bowers, Keith, “The Horror, The Humor,” SF Weekly January 5, p. 18
2010
Deutsche Bank Art Works, “Art as Lifesaver 2010 California Biennial,” November, www.db-artmag.com
Rabe, John, “Taravat Talepasand’s Revolution,” November 89.3 KPCC,
Southern California Public Radio, www.scpr.org
Chang, Richard, “O.C. Museum of Art Unveils it’s New Biennial,” November, www.ocregister.com
Moeini, Noushin, “Pearls on the Ocean Floor,” Javanan Magazine, June, Issue No. 1207, p. 34
Moeini, Noushin, “Taravat Talepasand’s images: Crossing Cultures in search of identity,” Javanan
International Weekly Magazine, April, p. 36
Miller D., Adam, “Taravat Talepasand,” www.beautifuldecay.com, June 15
Razo, Jennifer, “Exquisite Corpse with Taravat Talepasand,” Beautiful/Decay, June, Book: 4
Mary Anne, “Situation Critical,” artpractical.com February, The Painting Issue #8
Eisenhart, Mary, “Don’t Miss: Situation Critical,” San Francisco Chronicle (96 Hours section), January 7, p. 13
Sanaz Khalaj-Santos, "Pushing Boundaries," www.persianesque.com
2009
Huston, Johnny Ray, “Weekly Picks,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 16, p. 16-17
Granade, Rives, “Talepasand’s ‘Situation Critical,’” examiner.com, January
Melendez, Franklin, “Behind the veil,” San Francisco Magazine, December, p. 37, 40
Harouni, Shadi, “Ala Ebtekar & Taravat Talepasand: Hampah,” The Mag LA, June, p. 38
Selz, Gabrielle, “Taravat Talepasand: In Her Own Image,” Art Papers, March/April, p. 22-25
Amirsadeghi, Hossein (Editor), Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art, Globe Publishing Limited, London, U.K.
2008
Zevitas, Steven T. (Editor), New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Issue #79, p. 152-155, www.newamericanpaintings.com
Turner, Cherie Louise, “Young at Art: 15 Artists Under 35,” art ltd., May, p. 59
Junker, Howard (Editor), “That Fateful, Faithful Cup of Wine” (reproduction), ZYZZYVA, Spring, Vol. XXIV No. 1, p. 54
Goodin, Analisa, “Taravat Talepasand,” Alarm, Winter, p. 76-79
2007
Van Proyen, Mark, “Taravat Talepasand at Heather Marx,” Art in America, December, p. 169
Che, Julia, “Taravat Talepasand: You Liberal Iranian,” Metro.Pop, Issue 32, p. 57
Zevitas, Steven T. (Editor), New American Paintings: Special Edition, The Open Studios Press, Boston MA; Number 70, July, p. 188 & back cover
Weiss, Nina, “Golden Girl: Taravat Talepasand Shines on the Outside,” 7x7 Magazine, May, p. 71
Ross, Michael, “Taravat Talepasand @ Heather Marx Gallery,” whitehotmagazine.com, May, WM Issue #3
Nataraj, Nirmala, “Iran So Far Away,” SF Weekly (Night & Day section), May 2, p. 23
Melendez, Franklin, “Taravat Talepasand: The Golden Road,” Planet, Spring Issue 15, p. 017
New American Paintings, MFA Annual Issue #2007, www.newamericanpaintings.com
2006
Binshtock, Avital, “Art School Confidential,” Lifescapes, November, p. 64
Turner, Cherie Louise, “‘Cream’ at Arts Benicia,” Artweek, October, p. 25
Meeker, Cheryl, “SFAI MFA Graduation Exhibition,” stretcher.org, West Coast, May 27
Van Proyen, Mark, Catalogue Essay, MFA Graduate Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2005
Zevitas, Steven T. (Editor), New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, Boston MA; New American Paintings, MFA Annual Catalogue
2003
2003 Oregon Biennial Catalogue, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Speer, Richard, “Bi-Furious,” Willamette Week, July 2
“A Question of Commitment,” The Oregonian, June 29
“Oregon Biennial Sticks to Traditional Fields, Omits Web-based Work,” The Oregonian, March 12 “2003
Oregon Biennial,” Portland Mercury
2002
New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Issue #43 www.newamericanpaintings.com
