About
Amir Mobed was born in December 1974, in Shahroud. As a teenager, he had a passion for art and fortunately, his secondary education was coincided with the opening of the Graphic Art School in Shahroud in 1991, where his knowledgeable and motivated masters, such as Mohebi and Bitaraf have created an atmosphere, full of energy and thirst for learning for those like him. He attended professors Monir and Mehdi Ghanbeigi’s workshops at the end of the second year of high school, eager to learn more and achieve financial independence. The two studied in England and were acquainted with the Modern Art methods, and paved Amir’s way and as he has explained, he was professionally formed and was highly motivated to work and to study at the university afterwards.
Mobed, after graduating from the Fine Art School in 1995, entered the field of painting at the Faculty of Art and Architecture of Tehran Azad University. During the third year, he participated Charsoo Art Institute programmes, managed by Saeed Ravanbakhsh and continued gaining new experiences. He was initially familiarised with Contemporary Art, back in 1999 at Charsoo Institute of Art and a series of theoretical and practical workshops held by Professor Ziaei and Mr Qahramani which sparked the idea of his undergraduate Thesis, introduced as the first dissertation on a non-painting subject (installation), at Azad University. He defended in 2001 and a year later after his graduation, in 2002, he presented his dissertation work to the third Tehran biennial of Sculpture and won the third prize.
Amir Mabed is a multi-aspect and experimental artist who has experimented various media and has significantly worked in the fields of sculpture, installation, performance and environmental art. Most of his artworks have challenged the concepts and definitions of human life and have provoked the viewer’s emotions by engaging the audience in space. In some of his installations, we encounter ready-made, everyday objects, each of which contains cultural and social ironies. Violence and suffering are the main themes of his installations and performances.
Education:
- 1995, B.F.A, Azad University of Art and Architecture, Tehran, Iran
- 1991, Diploma, Graphic School, Shahroud, Semnan, Iran
Solo Exhibitions:
- 2021 _ Praising the Tool, Sculpture, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2018 – The Flowers of My Homeland, Installation-Sculpture, Iranshahr Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2017 – At the Situation, Installation, a contribution to the 7th Tehran Sculpture Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
- 2016 – Creation, Sculpture, Iranshahr Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2011 – 50% Off, Sculpture-Performance, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2008 – Orgamblages, Sculpture and Assemblage, Hoor Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2007 – Untitled, Installation, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2007 – Untitled, Installation, Tehran Gallery, (Art Gallery of the University of Tehran), Iran
- 2006 – Self-Portrait, Installation, Laleh Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2005 – Virginity, Installation, Arya Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2003 – Untitled, Sculpture, Laleh Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2003 – Untitled, Installation, Laleh Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 1995 – Mask and Sculpture, Kargah-e Honar, Tehran, Iran
- 1994 – Clay and Ceramics Pieces, Shahrood, Semnan, Iran
Selected Group Exhibitions:
- 2022 _ A Place to Stand, Sculpture, Malek Foundation, Tehran, Iran
- 2022 _ Thirty Sculptures, Thirty Sculptors, Arthibition Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2020 _ Rekhneh, Sculpture-Painting, Malek Foundation, Tabriz, Iran
- 2020 _ Still Life 1+12, Painting-Installation, Curator: Eisa Jabari, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, Iran
- 2019 – Factory 02, Sculpture, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2019 – Recalling the Future: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art, Curator: Aras Amiri & David Hodge, Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London, England
- 2018 – Metamorphosis, Sculpture, Curator: Zarvan Rouhbakhshan, Sareban Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2018 – Fragile Hands: A Curatorial Essay on State Subjectivities, Photo-Video and Performance, Curator: Shaheen Merali, Exhibition Centre at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
- 2013 – Speaking from the Heart, The Polemic Sensibility, Photo-Video and Performance, Curator: Shaheen Merali, Gastnum Peregrinu Exhibition Space, Amesterdam, the Netherland
- 2013 – 100% Wool, in Tehran Calling London / London Calling Tehran, Photo-Video and Performance, London Print Studio, London, England
- 2012 – I Love You All to the Last Drop of My Blood, Sculpture, Magic of Persia Festival, London, England
- 2012 – Annual of Contemporary Art, Unfinished Performance, Curator: Zarvan Rouhbakhshan, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran
- 2012 – Virus, in Iranian Arts NOW, Performance, Festival of Contemporary Iranian Art, Paris, France
- 2012 – Elephant in the Dark, Installation, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India
- 2012 – The Opening, Performance, Curated by Zarvan Rouhbakhshan, Siin Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2011 – The (Iranian) Weltanschauung, Video, Courtesy of Freies Museum Berlin, Germany
- 2011 – Come Caress Me, Performance in Disturbing Public Opinion, Curated by Barbad Golshiri, Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sweden
- 2011 – Altered Objects, Sculpture-Installation, in Notebooks, an exhibition of Artist’s Books, Curator: Helia Darabi, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2010 – Burn! in Secondary Imagination, Sculpture-Installation, Curator: Behdad Lahouti, Farvahar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2010 – Come Caress Me, Video and Performance, in Obligatory Military Service, Curator: Farid Jafari Samarghandi, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2010 – Brito4th International Artists’Workshop, Performance-Installation, Panam Nagar Folk and Craft Museum, Base Training Centre, Sonargaon, Bangladesh
- 2010 – Tehran, Private and Public, Performance, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2010 – The Flowers of My Homeland, in Iran di Verso, Black or White, an exhibition of Iranian Contemporary Art, Installation, Turin, Italy organizer: Aran gallery
- 2009 – Virginity, in Iran Inside Out, Installation, Influences of Homeland and Diaspora on the Artistic Language of 56 Contemporary Iranian Artists, Curators: Sam Bardoel & Til Flirth, Chelsea Museum, New York
- 2009 – L’Iran sans Frontière, Sculpture, Curators: Negui and Kamran Diba, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
- 2008 – Between the Window and Sight, Sculpture, an exhibition in Memorial of Iranian Poetess, Forough Farrokhzad, Curator; Solmaz Naraghi, Arya Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2008 – Altered Objects in Tiny Conceptual, Installation, Curator: Helia Darabi, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2007 – Root of the Soil, Sculpture exhibition of the winners of Tehran Sculpture Biennial, Tehran, Iran
- 2006 – “Iranian Sculpture in Mexico”, Sculpture, Mexico City, Mexico
- 2005 – Beshno az Ney, Installation in Persian Garden, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
- 2005 – Virginity, Installation, Arya Art Gallery , Tehran, Iran
- 2005 – Untitled, Sculpture, Fatima Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2004 – 3rd Iranian “New Art” Exhibition, Environmental Piece, Tehran Student Club, Tehran, Iran
- 2004 – Doha Art biennial, Sculpture, Doha, Qatar
- 2004 – For Bam, Installation, in the memory of people killed in Bam’s earthquake, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, Iran
- 2003 – Angles in Spiritual Vision, Sculpture, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
- 2003 – Cultural Heritage, Sculpture, Jahan Nama Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2003 – Untitled, Sculpture, Laleh Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2002 – The Mushrooms, 2nd Iranian “New Art” Exhibition, Sculpture-Installation, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
- 2001 – Untitled, Sculpture, Arya Art gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2001 – Untitled, Installation, Third Biennial of Sculpture, Niavaran Cultural Centre, Tehran, Iran
- 1999 – Second Biennial of Sculpture, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, Iran
- 1997 – Untitled, Sculptur-Installation, First Biennial of Sculpture, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, Iran
- 1996 – Untitled, Sculpture, Annual Exhibition of Ceramics and Pottery, Tehran, Iran
- 1995 – Untitled, Sculpture, Festival of Visual Arts of Iranian Youth, Yazd, Iran
- 1994 – Untitled, Sculpture, Festival of Visual Arts of Iranian Youth, Kerman, Iran
- 1993 – Untitled, Sculpture Shahrood, Semnan, Iran
- 1993 – Festival of Visual Arts of Iranian Youth, Isfahan, Iran
Performance
- 2018 – Disformission, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2017 – Upon Us, is what is inside us, Iranshahr Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2017 – Hypocracy, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2013 – Homeland, (interactive), Saadabad Palace, Tehran Art-Walk Project, Iran-Netherland Friendship Association, Tehran, Iran
- 2013 – Recurrence, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2012 – Ekhtiar, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2012 – Virus, Iranian Art Now, Curated by Fereshte Matin Daftari, Cite International des Artists, Paris, France
- 2012 – Opening, Curator: Zarvan Rouhbakhshan, Seen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2011– 50% Off, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2011 – Field, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2010 – Come Caress Me!, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2010 – Come Caress Me!, Roda Esten Gallery, Gotenberg, Sweden
- 2010 – Why Don’t You Love Me?, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2010 – Flowers of My Homeland, Aran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2008 – Entezart, Azad Gallery, Tehran
- 2004 – Performance with Fire, First Performance and Environmental Art Festival, Director: Ahmad Nadealian, Polour, Damavand
Public Projects
- 2012 – Angles, Sculpture-Installation, Hakim Highway, Tehran, Iran
- 2009 – Collaborating in Relief Decoration of Milad Tower Penthouse, Tehran, Iran
- 2006 – Sky, Permanent Installation in Imam Ali Museum of Religious Arts, Tehran, Iran
- 2005 – Permanent Sculpture in Sculpture Park, Hashtgerd, Alborz, Iran
- 2004 – Beshno az Ney, Sculptute-Installation, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, Iran
- 2002 – Angles, Sculpture-Installation, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, Iran
- 2000 – Permanent Installation in Bahman Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran
Teaching Experience
- 2013-2005 – Sculpture Courses in Kargah-e Honar, Charsoo Institute and Private Art Studio, Tehran, Iran
Curatorial Projects
- 2010 – Three Generations of Iranian Sculpture, Farvahar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2010 – Seeds of Baobab II, an exhibition of young Iranian sculptors, Laleh Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- 2009 – Seeds of Baobab, an exhibition of young Iranian sculptors, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Scholarships
- 2003 – Residency in the Cité International des Arts, Paris, awarded by the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts
Memberships
- Association of Iranian Sculptors
- Institute for Promotion of Visual Arts
Awards
- 2001 – Third Prize of Tehran’s Third Biennial of Sculpture, Tehran, Iran
- 1993, 1994, 1995 – First Prize, Festivals of Iranian Young Visual Artists, Tehran, Iran