15 x 11.5 inches, mixed media piece.

In 2019, Bahar Behbahani was granted a Creative Capital award for an upcoming project Ispahan Flowers Only Once, a collaborative garden inspired by Persian garden design, philosophy, plants and flora, which will bring people together to take part and re-activate unseen histories by gathering and gardening.

Behbahani's community oriented installation was featured in the Lahore Biennale in 2019 where her project I Can Drink Stars is a permanent installation in the City of Lahore, Pakistan. Her work was featured in a solo exhibition, Let the Garden Eram Flourish, at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, in 2017, curated by Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, Curator of African Art. Her multidisciplinary series of Garden Coup has been shown at the Thomas Erben Gallery in New York and the 11th Shanghai Biennale, China in 2016. Her project, The Color of Soil Never Lies was featured at the 7th Moscow Biennale, Russia, and her work as also been shown at The 18th Biennale of Sydney, Australia; Sharjah Biennial 10, UAE; The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, MI; and The Tribeca Film Festival, NY; among others. Her film Behind the Mirrors premiered at Fireflies in the Night, curated by Robert Storr, Kalliopi Minioudaki, and Barbara London in partnership with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Greece in 2016.

Behbahani is a recipient of the 2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grants.

This item was kindly donated by Bahar Behbahani

Artist's Website: https://baharbehbahani.com

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