f Art, Performance during the Art Seen Magazine’s 25th Anniversary, LA, California, April 18, 2007
APEX, “The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe”, July 7- August 11, 2007, New Yourk.
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, “Open Call LA”, July 20- August 26, 2007, Los Angeles.
Phantom Galleries, “Migration Study”, Thursday May 10, 2007- August 29, 2007, Los Angeles.
UCLA Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater, Video Production World Arts and Cultures 245, Los Angeles, California, December
Plugged Women’s Video Collective, “Her Shorts 2007” , Interview with Ali & Interview with IllegalAfghani Immigrant, . Curated by Gina Cestaro.
Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association, “Summer Stock”, Los Angeles, CA, Summer 2007
Pink Project Fashion show on saturday January 13, 8:00 p.m. at the Arena 1 gallery at the Santa Monica airport, as a member of the LA Art Girls.
2006
Otis College of Art and Design, Sunrise to Sunset: Honoring the Dead, Galef building, Los Angeles, California, November 2nd.
Ephemeral Gallery, “ State of Fear” curated by Audrey Haworth, Culver City, California, October
Watch Towers, photographs of watch towers and interviews with solders, Tehran, Esfahan, Sheraz, Hamedan, and Shoma, Iran, summer
Darya ye khasar, organized performance, Coed Soccer, boys and girls not in Islamic Hijab, Shomal, Iran, summer
Emam Zadeh Saleh, facilitated by merchants in the area, Tehran,Iran, August 20th
UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall, Department of World Arts and Cultures, Choreographing The Margins Show, Los Angeles, California, May
Borders and Border Crossings, presentation of web- based proposals, Ahmanson 403, Los Angeles, CA, May 4th
William Grant Still Arts Center, Socialistic Group Show: New Work from Southern California, Los Angeles, California, March
Otis College of Art and Design, BFA Show, Galef building, Los Angeles, California, April- May
Ephemeral Gallery, on virtual space, “Weather or Not”, curated by Alexx Shaw Culver City, California, fall
Performance at the Sculpture Garden, curated by Jeff Philips, Woodland Hills, California
Bolsky Gallery, Stoning the East and the West, Los Angeles, CA, fall
2005
Museum of Martyrs, Shohada ye Maslum, curated by Ali Tehranie, Tehran, Iran, summer
Ben Maltz Gallery, Detours to Resonance, curated by Meg Linton, Los Angeles, California, fall
Bolsky Gallery, Reconciling Art Practices, curated by SusAn Barnet Los Angeles, CA
Bolsky Gallery, What it is, curated by Dana Duff show Los Angeles, California, fall
The Ephemeral Gallery, Community Collaborative, curated by Alexx Shaw Culver City, California, fall
Slanguage Gallery, curated by Mario and Carla Diaz, Los Angeles, California, winter
2004
Blue Space White Box, curated by James Elaine of the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
107 Gallery, Portraiture, curated by Steven Hull, Los Angeles, California
Thing Gallery, curated by Mark Sarina, Los Angeles, California, spring
Bolsky Gallery, Out of Action, curated by Mia Babalis, Los Angeles, California, October
Construction-sites, Parks, Jungle gyms, Junk yards, Urban landscapes, and Commercial buildings, Drift Wood, Los Angles, California, winter
2003
Otis College of Art and Design built on sight facilitated by the sculpture department, curated by Dana Duff, Los Angeles, California, december
2002
Emam Zadeh Saleh, facilitated by merchants in the area, Tehran,Iran, summer, 2001
Hammer Museum, Mandela, group project sponsored by the Hammer for high school students. Los Angles, California
Museum Of Contemporary Art, Collaborative Installation apart of a community art education program, Los Angeles, California, June
2000
Hammer Museum, Video Performance, group project sponsored by the Hammer for high school students. Los Angles, California
Current Community Organizations and Projects:
Azerbaijani World Congress.
Vayghanian Visual Arts Council (established by my grandfather)Vayghan, Iran.
Los Angels Art Girls. LA. CA. U.S.A.
Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association.
Otis College of Art and Design, founder and president of the bowling team (one of
only two sports teams at Otis), Virgin Marry club, and the Year book committee.
Founder of the Artists’ Collective Los Angeles CA, The Building Bridges exhibition,
and the Khaneh E Honar Gallery in Tehran, Iran.
I.M.A.N.- Iranian Muslim Association of North America.
Founder of Building Bridges Collective and Building Bridges Exhibition series, “BB”
Otis Salon, founder Linda Marshalla Kunik
Republic of Peace, founded by Ofunne Obiamiwe
The All City Marching Waitresses
Suzanne Lacy's Public Arts Program
Cofounder of MANNA:
MANNA – An artist collective comprised of Los Angeles-based visual artists, examines how identity is shaped by differences in language, gender, ethnicity and culture, desire, exile, solitude and freedom. This community allows for both artists and spectators to transit across borderless art as they each re-create their own experience of this study in cross-cultural mapping.
Artists’ Collective – A building located in downtown Los Angeles, organized to promote dialogue between artists in Los Angeles and Iran whose work addresses issues of community, hybridty, and crossing border.
Sculpture Gardens – a sculpture garden to house work, meant to engage with and address issues of landscape and the politics of place. Surrounding gardens at the downtown building, are for communal use, and shows.
Khane Honar – Home of Arts studio/ Gallery - a residency to curate exhibitions in a space within the Tehran Bazaar, Iran
The Building Bridges Show – a series of events and exhibition I have curated. Such as an exhibition in Tehran at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, which opened during the fall (2007) showcasing the work of Iranian and American artists. (including Bill Viola, Suzanne Lacy, Masami Teraoka, Jerri Allyn, .... ) The show featured work from American artists and Iranian artists, highlighting collaboration and unity to counter act the violence portrayed by the government controlled media in both Iran and the United States.
LA Art Girls – evolved from informal gatherings and studio visits, which started in 2004, as a means of encouraging substantive discourse on contemporary art. The intentions of the LA Art Girls are to provide inspiration, support, dialogue and feedback to one another. The group strives to be a voluntary and non-hierarchical gathering of practices. The LA Art Girls has produced several collaborative projects: Strange Love (2005) an exquisite corpse-style video remake of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strange love, exhibited at QED Gallery; Total Art Performance Event, a series of Fluxus-inspired performances at the Getty Center in June 2006; group exhibitions at Anna Helwing Gallery, LACE and Angles Gallery; a radio show on Kbeach Global Radio; and Overflow, a re-invention of Fluids (1967) by artist Allan Kaprow, at the Getty Center in April 2008. While there are over 30 members of the LA Art Girls at this time, a lesser number participates in the collaborative projects on a self-selecting basis. Meanwhile, all members of the group pursue their own practices as contemporary artists and participate in meetings and studio visits as they choose.
Screenings
2011 “Building Bridges Rooftop Reflections, Tehran, Iran, April- May.
2011 “Building Bridges Rooftop Reflections, throughout Iran and India for all of January.
2010 “Building Bridges Film Festival, 2010” Rooftop Screenings, Tehran, Iran, Summer 2010, a series of three screenings including our August 5th screening. (Projection equipment set up on top of Grandparents rooftop and onto 1st childhood friends rooftop)
2009 “Building Bridges: From the rooftops of Tehran, Iran to Los Angeles,” The Fowler Museum, Thursday, 6:00- 8:00 pm, October 15, 2009
2007 Plugged Women’s Video Collective, “Her Shorts 2007” , Interview with Ali & Interview with IllegalAfghani Immigrant, . Curated by Gina Cestaro.
UCLA Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater, Video Production World Arts and Cultures 245, Los Angeles, California, December 4, 2007
Arena 1 gallery at the Santa Monica airport, “Afghani Immigrant Workers, Tehran, Iran, summer of 2006.” January 13, 8:00 p.m.
2006 UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall, Department of World Arts and Cultures, Vitas Film Festival, Los Angeles, California, May 5, 2006
2006 Otis College of Art and Design, BFA Show, Galef building, Los Angeles, California, May
2005 Museum of Martyrs, Tehran, Iran
2004 Otis, Super 8 film in the “Out of Action Show,” Los Angeles, CA
2003 Town hall, Vayghan, Tabries, Iran
2002 IMAN (Iranian Muslim Association of North America), “Minority Struggle within the Islamic Republic,” Los Angeles, CA
Public Talks (Lectures and Panels)
2011
Panel: ALTERNATIVE CURATORIAL PRACTICES, panel of curators: Cesar Garcia (LAX ART), Rita Gonzales (LACMA), Naima Keith (Hammer Museum), Meg Linton (Ben Maltz Gallery), Marjan Vayghan (Building Bridges), Tues. April 26th 6:30-9:30PM, 1657 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404.
The Affaire in the Gardens Art Show, 72 hour, outdoor Public talk and Performance within Legacy Cratees, Beverly Hills, CA, May 20 and 22, 2011
2010 LAAG, Panel discussion, at Loyola Marymount University, Ahmanson 1000, 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, California 90045. Wednesday, October 27, 2010,10 am - noon
Debating through the Arts, A Performance Art Event #2, curated by Jerri Allyn & Inez Bush, St. Elmo Village: 4830 Saint Elmo Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90019, Sunday, September 26, 1 pm – 9 pm.
2009 Guest speaker in Peter Sellars’ Enlightenment class, World Arts and Culture, UCLA, Fall 2009
2008 O Salon, “Artist Lecture Series, Building Bridges between the my studio practices >< the world at large, beyond & betwixt borders and sanctions,” 1147 Coldwater Canyon Drive, Beverly Hills, C A, 90210, Friday, MArch 27, 2009.
2007 UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall, Department of World Arts and Cultures, Chew On This, Brown bag Lecture Series, Los Angeles, California, January 15, 2008 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m
2006 UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall, Department of World Arts and Cultures, Choreographing The Margins Artist Lecture Artist Lecture, Los Angeles, California, May 5, 2006 11:00 am
“Borders and Border Crossings”, presentation of web- based proposals, Ahmanson 403, Los Angeles, CA, May 4th 4:30- 5:30 p.m.
Artist Lecture at the forum, Los Angeles, CA, March 28 7:00 p.m.
Otis College of Art and Design, BFA Show, Galef building, Los Angeles, California, May
2005 Museum of Martyrs, Tehran, Iran
Otis, Detours to Resonance show curated by Meg Linton in relation to feminism and what is to be transnational artist
2001 University High with in the art program
1998- 2006 Iman, during most events concerning youth classes, event, and art shows
Privet Lectures
2008 UCLA, World Arts and Culture, Wowdow’s class, May 2, 2008
2006 Lecture at Joann Staten’s class in reference to Iranian culture both in the Middle East and Westwood California. June 1, 2006 12:30 p.m. till 6:00 p.m. performance, intro to Iranian tradition, food, culture through national artistic practice(ex. rugs), and my own individual artistic practice.
Public Collections
Museums Of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
Museum of Martyrs, Tehran, Iran
Awards, Honors, and Accomplishments
2007 Museum of Contemporary Art, Selected by Suzanne Lacy to participate in “Art of the Feminist Revolution exhibition” a collaborative installation with MOCA and WAC, Los Angeles, CA.
2007 Invited to become a member of the LA Art Girls.
2006 Acquired a contract with museum of Contemporary Arts in Tehran, Iran for an exhibition in during the fall of 2007.
2006 Otis college of art and design chosen class marshal for the 2006 commencement ceremony.
2005 Museum of Martyrs, plaque of recognition, for my participation in the show as an Iranian American artist, Tehran, Iran, summer
2005 Navied Foundation, eight thousand dollars Funding to go towards my gallery in Tehran, Iran, late spring
2005 Otis College of Art and Design, Sculpted Bowling Ball from the bowLing team. I am president and founder of the bowling team (one of only two sports teams at Otis), Virgin Marry club, Year book committee, and the unofficial Persian Club. Los Angeles California, fall
2002 University High School, The AP 3-D Design Plaque, the first three dimensional award presented to a student with in the art department, Los Angeles California, spring
2002 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Scholastic Art & Writing Award, for Excellence in Visual Arts, Los Angeles, California
2001 UCLA Hammer Museum, Chosen to work at the Hammer Museum along side an nstallation conceived as collaboration between Buddhist Monks and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
2001 Museum of Contemporary Art, Selected by the California Arts Council to participate in a collaborative installation at MOCA, Los Angeles, California
2000- 2001 Who’s Who Among American High School Students, honorary Who’s Who award, Los Angeles, California
2000 Recognized as gifted in Los Angeles County, which led to Advance Placement Art Practices for three years at University High School
2000 UCLA Hammer Museum, Selected to work with Susan Mogul a video installation artist, Los Angeles, California
1999 Y.E.P.A., award for Cooperative Participation, from the youth education panel of academic instructors, Los Angeles, California
1998 Two Computer Education Awards for the Mars Red Rover Project, and One for the Land Escape Design of the Mars Project, a program witch took place amongst a community of over twenty middle schools, Los Angeles, California
1992 Masjedeh Jame, 1st place in a national contest, in the gifted young artist program, Tehran, Iran
Experience
English being my fourth language, I am able to connect with to, and understand people from a diverse group of cultures.
Founder and president of the Building Bridges Show curated between Iranian and American Artists.
Chief Creative Director at Arjay Entertainment with experience including but not limited to production design, still photography, interior design, and wardrobe consultation. 2006- present
Arts and Foreign Language Instructor at IMAN (Iranian Muslim Association of North America) sense 1998, as well as substitute at the Beverly Hills Lingual Institute. 1998- 2007
Class Marshal, class of 2006.
Otis College of Art and Design, president and funder of the bowling team (one of only two sports teams at Otis), Virgin Marry club, Year book committee, and the unofficial Persian Club.
Event and lectures organizer at IMAN.
A part of a youth group at the UCLA Hammer Museum during 2001 building a Mandala in conversation with Tibetan monks exhibiting at the Hammer.
As well as a program at the UCLA Hammer Museum, working with video performance artists Susan Mogul during 2000.
I have experience working along side Museum of Martyrs in Tehran, Thing Gallery, Slanguage
Gallery, Bolsky Gallery, and the Ephemeral Gallery in Los Angeles, by helping organize events, urated shows .
Publications:
O MAG
Rahavard, Arts and Culture, ART AND THE INSPIRATION OF DUST, GRAVES & ROOFTOPS, By Marjan Vayghan arts-culture/
Art Asia Pacific Almanac 2008, Today’s Art From Tomorrow's World, Volume 3, New Yourk, 2008.
Department of World Arts and Cultures Catalogue, Choreographing The Ma
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2008 UCLA, World Arts and Culture, Wowdow’s class, May 2, 2008
2006 Lecture at Joann Staten’s class in reference to Iranian culture both in the Middle East and Westwood California. June 1, 2006 12:30 p.m. till 6:00 p.m. performance, intro to Iranian tradition, food, culture through national artistic practice(ex. rugs), and my own individual artistic practice.
Public Collections
Museums Of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
Museum of Martyrs, Tehran, Iran
Awards, Honors, and Accomplishments
2007 Museum of Contemporary Art, Selected by Suzanne Lacy to participate in “Art of the Feminist Revolution exhibition” a collaborative installation with MOCA and WAC, Los Angeles, CA.
2007 Invited to become a member of the LA Art Girls.
2006 Acquired a contract with museum of Contemporary Arts in Tehran, Iran for an exhibition in during the fall of 2007.
2006 Otis college of art and design chosen class marshal for the 2006 commencement ceremony.
2005 Museum of Martyrs, plaque of recognition, for my participation in the show as an Iranian American artist, Tehran, Iran, summer
2005 Navied Foundation, eight thousand dollars Funding to go towards my gallery in Tehran, Iran, late spring
2005 Otis College of Art and Design, Sculpted Bowling Ball from the bowLing team. I am president and founder of the bowling team (one of only two sports teams at Otis), Virgin Marry club, Year book committee, and the unofficial Persian Club. Los Angeles California, fall
2002 University High School, The AP 3-D Design Plaque, the first three dimensional award presented to a student with in the art department, Los Angeles California, spring
2002 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Scholastic Art & Writing Award, for Excellence in Visual Arts, Los Angeles, California
2001 UCLA Hammer Museum, Chosen to work at the Hammer Museum along side an nstallation conceived as collaboration between Buddhist Monks and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
2001 Museum of Contemporary Art, Selected by the California Arts Council to participate in a collaborative installation at MOCA, Los Angeles, California
2000- 2001 Who’s Who Among American High School Students, honorary Who’s Who award, Los Angeles, California
2000 Recognized as gifted in Los Angeles County, which led to Advance Placement Art Practices for three years at University High School
2000 UCLA Hammer Museum, Selected to work with Susan Mogul a video installation artist, Los Angeles, California
1999 Y.E.P.A., award for Cooperative Participation, from the youth education panel of academic instructors, Los Angeles, California
1998 Two Computer Education Awards for the Mars Red Rover Project, and One for the Land Escape Design of the Mars Project, a program witch took place amongst a community of over twenty middle schools, Los Angeles, California
1992 Masjedeh Jame, 1st place in a national contest, in the gifted young artist program, Tehran, Iran
Experience
English being my fourth language, I am able to connect with to, and understand people from a diverse group of cultures.
Founder and president of the Building Bridges Show curated between Iranian and American Artists.
Chief Creative Director at Arjay Entertainment with experience including but not limited to production design, still photography, interior design, and wardrobe consultation. 2006- present
Arts and Foreign Language Instructor at IMAN (Iranian Muslim Association of North America) sense 1998, as well as substitute at the Beverly Hills Lingual Institute. 1998- 2007
Class Marshal, class of 2006.
Otis College of Art and Design, president and funder of the bowling team (one of only two sports teams at Otis), Virgin Marry club, Year book committee, and the unofficial Persian Club.
Event and lectures organizer at IMAN.
A part of a youth group at the UCLA Hammer Museum during 2001 building a Mandala in conversation with Tibetan monks exhibiting at the Hammer.
As well as a program at the UCLA Hammer Museum, working with video performance artists Susan Mogul during 2000.
I have experience working along side Museum of Martyrs in Tehran, Thing Gallery, Slanguage
Gallery, Bolsky Gallery, and the Ephemeral Gallery in Los Angeles, by helping organize events, urated shows .
Publications:
O MAG
Rahavard, Arts and Culture, ART AND THE INSPIRATION OF DUST, GRAVES & ROOFTOPS, By Marjan Vayghan arts-culture/
Art Asia Pacific Almanac 2008, Today’s Art From Tomorrow's World, Volume 3, New Yourk, 2008.
Department of World Arts and Cultures Catalogue, Choreographing The Margins Show, Los Angeles, California, May 2006
Books published on passed installations along with personal stories influencing each piece :
Marjan K. Vayghan. Displaced Branches fall of 2005. Los Angeles: Apple, Inc., 2006. (available both in soft and hard cover.)
Marjan K. Vayghan. Drift Wood Collaboration fall of 2004. Los Angeles: Apple, Inc., 2006., (available both in soft and hard cover.)
Marjan K. Vayghan. Information Cart Performance, Fall of 2005 @ the Ephemeral Gallery, Culver City, California, United States. Los Angeles: Apple, Inc., 2006. (available both in soft and hard cover.)
Marjan K. Vayghan. Prayer Rug Installation Imam Zadeh Saleh summer of 2002. Los Angeles: Apple, Inc., 2006. (available both in soft and hard cover.)
Marjan K. Vayghan. Permutations of Three Warren and Marjan Collaboration, winter of 2003. Los Angeles: Apple, Inc., 2006. (available both in soft and hard cover.)
Marjan K. Vayghan. Haft Seen fall of 2005. Los Angeles: Apple, Inc., 2006. (available both in soft and hard cover.)
Marjan K. Vayghan. Out of Action Show fall of 2004 Museum of Martyrs summer of 2005.Los Angeles: Apple, Inc., 2006. (available both in soft and hard cover.)
Marjan K. Vayghan. Watch Towers & Interviews with Solders summer of 2005 till the summer of 2006. Los Angeles: Apple, Inc., 2006. (available both in soft and hard cover.)
Text regarding installations and work published in the annual catalog released by the Museum of Martyrs.
Discussion in relation to feminism and what is to be a transnational artist in a show curated by Meg Linton “Detours to Resonance” published in Wash magazine, and the show catalog. Small excerpts and images in the Otis view Catalog. also in a book of shazia skandar’s work.
Biography published in the Who’s Who Among American High SchooL Students, 2001, Los Angeles, California.