hadieh shafie
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b. Tehran, Iran

Lives and Works in the USA


EDUCATION: 
2004 MFA Imaging and Digital Art UMBC, MD 
1999 MFA Painting Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 
1993 BA Painting University of Maryland, College Park, MD

GRANTS & AWARDS: 
2012 The Space Program, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Jameel Prize, V&A Museum, London, UK (Shortlisted)
2011 Franz and Virginia Bader Fund, Washington D.C.
2010 Individual Artist Grant, Maryland State Arts Council
2009 Mary Sawyers Baker Award, William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund 
2008 Individual Artist Grant, Maryland State Arts Council 
2003 RTKL Grant in Visual Arts 

COLLECTIONS:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Cornell Fine Art Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL 
Bank of America, Corporation Collection, North Carolina 
Art in Embassies, Public Collection, Dubai, UAE
Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE 
Numerous Private Collections in USA and Abroad

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 


2011
Ketabeh Eshghe (Book of Love), Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Ketab (Book), XVA Gallery, Dubai, UAE 
Sweet Turning of the Page, Morton Fine Art, Washington D.C. 

2010 Some Kind of Love, Jean Efron Art Consultants, Washington D.C.
2009 Paper Pattern Color Culture, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 
2008 Exodus, The Carriage House, Baltimore, MD

2004
The Little Black Fishes, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
Spin, MFA Exhibition, CVAC, UMBC, Baltimore, MD


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2013 
Art Dubai, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
The Armory, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
The Space Between: Contemporary Perspectives on Tradition and Society 
Jameel Prize Exhibition,CantorArts Center at Stanford University, California 
Art13 London, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich SW

2012 
The Young Collectors Exhibit, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Art MIAMI, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich SW
Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
LA Art Platform, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Texas Contemporary, Houston, TX, Pentimenti Gallery 
UNCHARTED : Works on Paper Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco
20 in 2012 Vision Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia 
Rock, Paper, Scissors Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
The Next Generation, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich SW
Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, France Jameel Prize Exhibition 
SHOW OFF! SPM Private Museum, Dubai UAE 
Dubai Art, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich SW
Pulse Art Fair, New York Pentimenti Gallery, PA USA
Invitational Art Exhibition, Conley Art Gallery USC Frescno, California 
Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain Jameel Prize Exhibition 

2011 
Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich SW
Contemporary Istanbul, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich SW
Art Asia Miami, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich SW
Aqua Art Miami, Pentimenti Gallery,Philadelphia, PA
SHOW OFF! SPM Private Museum, Dubai UAE
IMPACT. 30th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition and Auction Maryland Art Place
Sotheby's Auction, London, UK Contemporary Art/ Arab & Iranian 
Jameel Prize, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Pulse Art Fair, New York, NY Pentimenti Gallery
Select: Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.

2010 
Ritual: Form, Script and Gesture, A Pop Up Project, Morton Fine Art, Washington DC 
More of the best is yet to come, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 
Crazy Beautiful II, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY 
Sondheim Prize, Semi-Finalist Exhibition, MICA, Baltimore, MD 
MICA Sondheim Prize and Baker Award Honorees, Casewerks Baltimore, MD 
I(RAN) Home (In America), CoCA, Seattle, WA
Gallery Artists Group Show, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2009 
Hidden Wounds, Paper Bullets: Iranian Contemporary Art,
Grant Arts Central, Fullerton CA 
I (RAN) Home (In America), The Fridge DC, Washington D.C. 
Cross‐Currents: Trends in Contemporary Art Media, Sarah Silberman Gallery, MD 
Protocol: Syntax / Semantics, Gallery 4, Baltimore, MD
Baker Artist Awards Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Women’s Work, Civilian Art Place, Washington D.C.
Bastakiya Art Fair, Saatchi, Dubai, UAE
Bi‐Annual Symposium on Media Arts, Delaware College, Delaware, PA

2008 
Drawing Fusion, CCBC, Catonsville, MD
Hidden and Revealed, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Full Circle, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Penned, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2007
Iconology, Red Saw Gallery, Newark, New Jersey
Changing Climate Changing Colors, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

2006 
The Notebook, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Displacement, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD

2004 Solace:Searching for Meaning in a Time of Distress, Middle East Institute,
Washington, D.C.

2003 Under The Table and Dreaming, Raleigh Studios, Baltimore, MD
2002 Solace, Open Studio Exhibition, Raleigh Studios, Baltimore, MD

1999 
30 x30, Cinque Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Show, Center for Iranian Modern Art, New York, NY

1998 Art of the Book, Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Now and Here, Steuben Gallery West, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1996 Women, East Galleries, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1995 
Art Made in Exile: Iranian Artists, George Washington University,Washington, D.C.
Contemporary Iranian Artists, Avicenna Center, Vienna, VA

SELECTED REVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS:
Robin Pogrebin, "No Longer a Man's World", Art Basel Miami Magazine, Miami Beach 2012 p. 132Bryan Lufkin, "Artist Reinvents Ancient Scrolls, Complete with Farsi," Wired Magazine (September 2012)Allison Martin, "Rock, Paper, Scissors" Exhibit at Chelsea Gallery (July 29, 2012)
_____“Rock, Paper, Scissors" exhibition at Leila Heller Gallery includes the work of nine artists”Art Daily (Sunday, July 29, 2012)
_____"New Exhibit: "Rock, Paper, Scissors" Gotham Magazine (July 25,2012)
aia staff "The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss" Art in America (July,26,2012)
______"Spotlight: "Rock, Paper, Scissors" at Leila Heller Gallery, Paddle News (July 23,2012)
Eric Loret, "Jameel et une nuits", Liberation, Paris (January 7, 2012)Esteban Cortez, “Four Nationally renowed Artists featured at Conley Art Gallery” The Collegian (January 27, 2012)
_____“EyeCatchers” Canvas Issue 2 Abu Dhabi Art Edition (November 16, 2011) p11
_____“Best Photo of the Day”Art Daily (September 27, 2011)
_____“Modern and Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art Sale and Sotheby’s London” Ahram Online (September 6, 2011)
“Sotheby’s Annual Modern and Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art Sale” Art Daily (September 2, 2011)
Tiffany Jow, "All Wound Up", DC Magazine, (July/August) p51
Bruce Helander, "Artist To Watch", The Art Economist, (Volume 1, Issue 5, 2011) p72
Tara Heuser, "The sweet turning of the page", Pink Line Project, (June 1, 2011)
The National, "Splashes of color and love" (2011) p7
Aquarius, "Get your Fix" (May, 2011) p15 
F. Lennox Campello, Letter from Washington, DC, American Contemporary Art,
(May 2011) Cover Feature 
Michael O'Sullivan, Hadieh Shafie at Morton Fine Art, Washington Post, Thursday, (May 19, 2011)
John Anderson, Hadieh Shafie at Morton Fine Art, Washington City Paper,
(May 9, 2011)
Bruce Helander, Top Ten Artists To Watch, Huffington Post, (April, 2011) 
Joseph Lanner, “Old traditions, new ideas” Esquire Middle East, (April, 2011) p48 
The Vicotria & Albert Museum Announces the Shortlist for the Jameel Prize
2011” Art Daily (March, 2011)
V&A Announces Jameel Prize shortlist, Eastern Art Report (March, 2011)
Amy Levine- Kennedy, "Crazy Beautiful Opens at Kenise Barnes Fine Art" Larchmont-Mamaroneck Patch, (September 29, 2010)
Barbara O'Brien, Juror's Comments, New American Paintings #88, The Open Studio Press, Boston, MA, 2010
Emily Warner, “paperpatterncolorculture” The Brooklyn Rail, (November, 2009)
Dave Barton, “Mythologizing the Martyrs of Iran at Grand Central Art Center”, Orange County Weekly (December 3, 2009)
Maura Judkis, “ I RAN Home (in America)”, Washington City Paper, 
(November 11, 2009)
Michael O’Sullivan, “In Baltimore, Artists Win a Vote of confidence” Washington Post, (May 22, 2009)
Bret McCabe, “Moving Pictures Exhibition Exploring Transforming Images Also Recasts Their Emotive Potential” Baltimore City Paper, (February 25, 2009)
Ellyn Weiss, “Wright, Shafie, Cabazon and Tan at Civilian Art Projects” eweissart.com
Robert Jason Fagan, “Hand to Frame/Surface to Lens” Exhibition Catalogue, (February, 2009)
Robert Jason Fagan, “Drawing Fusion” Exhibition Catalogue, (October, 2008)
Bret McCabe, Visions of Excess: Information Overload Trumps Demur Artfulness” Baltimore City Paper, (August 20, 2008)
Robert Jason Fagan & Hadieh Shafie, “Emergence,” Exhibition catalogue, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2007
Hadieh Shafie,“Siouxsie,” Link Journal on the Arts, Issue No. 10, Baltimore, MD, 2004