Education
2006
Master of Fine Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2002
Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Select Solo Exhibitions
2017
au(ro)ra, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Equation of Time, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Mashrabiya: The Art of Looking Back, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2015
Nowheresville \ ‘nä-kōja,-abäd \, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
2014
Parallax, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Xinjiang Biennale (curated by Peng Feng), Xinjiang, China
Palo Alto University Avenue Tunnel, Palo Alto, CA
2013
cylinder.us, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2023
Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
Artists Making Books: Poetry to Politics, British Museum, London, UK
A Point Stretched: Views on Time, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2022
More Than What My Hands Can Hold,” Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2019
What is an edition, anyway?, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Moon: A Voyage Through Time, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
The Sheltering Sky, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2018
EXPO Chicago, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Chicago, IL
Visual Anthology: Artworks and the Book, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
FAULTline, Toby’s Art Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
Long, Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition, Katonah Museum of Art, NY
Thekla, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Safina, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
2017
Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times, diRosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
L’horreur du Vide, Selma Feriani Gallery, Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
Sanctuary, FOR-SITE, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), San Jose, CA
Mashrabiya: The Art of Looking Back, The Fine Arts Gallery at SF State University, San Francisco, CA
Esho Funi, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2016
Summer Programming, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
2015
Retrospective, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Space Between Our Fingers, Apexart Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Angels, Saints, and Co., Aaran Projects, Tehran, Iran
Formal Relations, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY
Misappropriations, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA
2014
State of the Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Brentonville, AR
The Vastness is Bearable, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara Satellite, Santa Barbara, CA
Theory of Survival: Fabrications, A project by Taraneh Hemami, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Encounter: Listening to the City, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE
Now Read This, Boise State University Arts Gallery, Boise, ID
Equations of Sight-Similarity, Sun\Ra Projects & On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
2013
Bibliophilia, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
The Beginning of Thinking is Geometric, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE
Migrating Identities, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Faux Real, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Proximities: What Time is it There, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Perpetuation of Myth, The Museums of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
Select Collections
British Museum, London, UK
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, Delhi, India
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Deutsche Bank Collection
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
The Farjam Collection, Dubai, UAE
de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA