Info | اطلاعات
GHAZALEH REZAEI (b. 1990, Tehran) is an Iranian photographer and researcher. Currently, she lives and works between Tehran and Paris. She holds a PhD in Art Studies from the University of Tehran. She obtained both her BFA and MA in Photography from the same university. Rezaei mainly uses photography to express sociocultural issues by drawing on the medium’s technical and aesthetical properties to create meaning. She has had presentations in Iran, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, and Canada, both solo and in a group. She is currently an adjunct lecturer at the University of Tehran, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Photography.
EDUCATION
2023
PhD Visual Art Studies, University of Tehran
Dissertation Title: Iranian Art Photography: from Local Roots to Global Horizons (A+)
Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts
2019-2023
2017
MA Photography, University of Tehran
Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts
Graduated with Distinction
2015-2017
2013
BFA Photography, University of Tehran
Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts
2008-2013
2010
BFA Painting, University of Tehran
Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts
2009-2010|Incomplete
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Ag Galerie, Tehran
Light Upon Light
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Let Us Believe in the Down of Spring: Portraits from Iran
Online-Exhibition, Curated by Anahita Sadighi
The Cube, The Deutsche Boerse Photography Foundation, Eschborn
Foam Talent
2022
Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
Foam Talent , Young Artists Shaping the Future of Photography
Curated by Mirelva Berghout
BredaPhoto 2022, Grote Kerk, Breda
A Space to Breath
Curated by Newsha Tavakolian
2019
Unseen Amsterdam
with Ag Galerie
Photolux, Lucca
Inerzia e Forza: Una Seconda Rivoluzione
10th Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie, Québec
Iran: Visual Poetries
Curated by Claudia Polledri
Ag Galerie, Tehran
Group-Exhibition, Small Image, Large Reflection IV
2018
Teer Art Fair, Tehran
with Ag Galerie
Jorjani Gallery, Tehran
Group-Exhibition, Home
Curated by Golnoush Heshmati
2017
Les Rencontres d’Arles Exhibition, Arles
Iran Année 38
Curated by Anahita Ghabaian and Newsha Tavakolian
Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen
Iran Année 38
Summer Photography Group Exhibition
Group-Exhibition, Tehran and Beyond
Curated by Mehrdad Nadjmabadi
2016
Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
Winner of the First Prize for the Let Your Redness be Mine Series, First Shahr-e-Ketab Magazine Photo Award Exhibition
Group-Exhibition, Long Shot
Curated by Golnoush Heshmati
2015
Group-Exhibition, Bedtime Stories
Curated by Mehrdad Nadjmabadi
SELECTED PRESS and PUBLICATIONS
2023
Breathing Space: Iranian Women Photographers
Thames & Hudson
Espace Vital: Femmes Photographes Iraniennes
Editions Textuel
Espace vital, le Livre Événement sur Trois Générations de Femmes Photographes Iraniennes
Madame Figaro
Espace Vital: L’Iran sous le Regard de 23 Femmes Photographes
Fisheye Magazine
Let Us Believe in the Dawn of Spring: Portraits from Iran
Fotografiska
2022
Foam: International Photography Magazine
Talent Issue, Text by: Anahita Ghabaian, No. 61.
2019
Profession: Artist, Herfeh Honarmand Art Magazine
No. 70 (Winter 2019), pp. 45-49.
2018
On Light َUpon Light Series, Text by: Maryam Roshanfekr
Profession: Artist, Herfeh Honarmand Art Magazine
No. 69 (Autumn 2018), pp. 33-37.
No. 67 (Spring 2018), pp. 152-154.
2017
Iran Année 38: La photographie Iranienne contemporaine depuis la révolution de 1979
2016
Profession: Artist, Herfeh Honarmand Art Magazine
Vol. 13, No. 59, (Spring 2016) pp. 149.
CINEMATOGRAPHY
2018
Photographer and Second Cinematographer
Goli: A Tale of Threads:a Film by Sara Naimpour, Canada/Iran
TEACHING
2022-present
Visiting Lecturer at Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran
Instagram: @ghazerazei