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
Women Life Freedom, Public Works, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, CA
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, Public Works, 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

2025
Fans Only Friends, Fans Only, Portland, OR
BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY), National Touring Exhibition Curator: Jasmine Wahi and Project for Empty Spaces

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
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
Baraye 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
Imagining Identity, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
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 Commission 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

2022/2025
President’s Diversity Incentive Funds, Office of Global Diversity & Inclusion, Portland State University, Portland, OR

2024
(OCF) Oregon Community Foundation Creative Heights Grant, Portland, OR
Regional Arts & Culture Council Arts3C, Portland, OR
Career Opportunity Grant, Ford Family Foundation & Oregon Arts Commission, Portland, OR

2023
Early Impact Dean’s Council Award, Portland State University Dean’s Council Award for Research, Scholarship, Activity, Portland State University, Portland, OR

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
Artist Resilience Award, Oregon Arts Commission, Portland, OR

2020
Artadia Artist Relief, San Francisco, CA

2018
Internet Archive, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA

2011
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant, New York, NY

2010
Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
                         
2006
Irene Pijoan Memorial Painting Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
New American Paintings: MFA Annual Competition, Boston, MA

2005
Murphy Cadogan Scholarship, San Francisco, CA

2004 - 2005
San Francisco Art Institute, Merit Scholarship, San Francisco, CA

2000
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, Portland Rotary Club, Portland, OR

1999 - 2001
Rhode Island School of Design Merit Scholarship, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1999
Guilford Handcraft, Guilford, CT

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 
Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME *Promised Gift
Tufts University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA 
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA

CATALOGS, BOOKS, MAGAZINES

Bold Blasphemy, JUXTAPOZ, Fall Issue, Kristen Farr
Women, Art, Freedom, Artists and Street Politics in Iran, Pamela Karimi
Mother Tongue Issue 4, Melissa Goldstein
Nester: Living With Art, Willamette Week Magazine, Andi Zielser, Portland, OR
Girl 7, Girls Magazine, Issue 7, Adrianne Ramsey
طراوت | TARAVAT, Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
In the Fields of Empty Days: Kings, Heroes, Demons and Saints in Iranian Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Once at Present Contemporary Art of the Bay Area Iranian Diaspora, Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Now 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolor at Bowdoin College, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine
Vinyl Icons: Persian Pop and Turkish Psychedelia, Vane Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2010 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA
The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
2003 Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

RESIDENCY

2024
Anderson Ranch Art Center, Master Class: Business of Art Making with Mickalene Thomas & Jasmine Wahi, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO

2023
Communitas Lecture Series Artist in Residence, Utah State University, Caine College of the Arts, Logan, UT

2018
The Internet Archive, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA

FILM & DOCUMENTARY

Retro Report: When Art Fuels Anger, Who Should Prevail? with Andres Serrano by Retro Report Joseph Hogan
In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present, Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
What You Know: Interview with Taravat Talepasand by Laila Irvani
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