Newsha Tavakolian Photography

• Exhibitions:

Solo:

• 2024 And They Laughed At Me, Parallel Circuit, Tehran, Iran
• 2024 And They Laughed At Me,Yerevan, Armenia
• 2024 And They Laughed At Me,Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

  2023 And They Laughed At Me, Mudec Museum, Milan, Italy

• 2021 “For the Sake of Calmness”, Thomas Erben Gallery, NYC, USA
• 2020 “For the Sake of Calmness”, Argo Factory, Pejman Foundation, Tehran, Iran
• 2019 I Know Why the Rebel Sings, La Filature, Mulhouse, France
• 2018 The Art of Photojournalism - photographs of Newsha Tavakolian, The Museum for Intercultural Dialogue, Kielce, Poland
• 2017 Tina Modotti Gallery, Udine, Italy
• 2017 “I Know Why the Rebel Sings, Ab/Anbar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2016 Atlas Sztuki Art Gallery, Lodz, Poland
• 2016 I know why the rebel sings, Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 2015 Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
• 2015 Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album, Chappelle des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
• 2015 Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album, East Wing Gallery, Dubai, UAE
• 2014 “Look”, Somerset House, London, England
• 2013 “Listen & The Day I Became a Woman”, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
• 2013 “Look”, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA
• 2013 “Look/Listen”, Bildmuseet Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, Umea, Sweden
• 2013 “Look”, Aaran Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2013 “Mothers of Martyrs”, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
• 2012 Listen, “Otto Gallery, Florence, Italy.
• 2011 Listen, LA Caja Blanca Gallery, Palma de Majorca, Spain
• 2011 Listen, Jakob Church, Oslo, Norway
• 2011 Listen, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2009 Chanel and Chador, Side Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom
• 2009 Newsha Tavakolian, Centre Culturel Franco Allemand, Karlsruhe, Germany

Group:

• 2020 Beyond the Image, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
• 2020 Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album, The Room Platform, Pejman Foundation, Online
• 2019 - 2020 My Iran: Six Women Photographers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M.Sackler Gallery, Washington, USA
• 2019 City Prince/ssesDHAKA, LAGOS, MANILA, MEXICO CITY and TEHRAN, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
• 2018 In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art
• 2018 "Hard Truths" 5 freelance photographers on an assignment for The New York Times, at Sotheby's London, England
• 2017 Co-Curator, Iran Year 38, Arles Photo Festival, Arles, France
• 2017 Women Seeing Women by Magnum Photographers, Stalet-Wise Gallery, NYC, USA
• 2017 Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
• 2016 Magnum New Blood, Milk Gallery, New York, USA
• 2016 Parallel Looks - Spain and Iran, Silkroad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2016 Yinchuan Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan (MOCA Yinchuan), China
• 2016 Exhibition at the O.P.E.N, Singapore International Festival of Arts, Singapore
• 2016 Mass Individualism: A form of multitude, Ab/Anbar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2016 She who tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
• 2016 New Magnum Photographers Exhibition, London, England
• 2016 Magnum Photos Newest Nominees, Milk Gallery, New York, USA
• 2016 Art Basel Hong Kong- Newsha Tavakolian: “Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album”, Thomas Erben Gallery
• 2016 LACMA Exhibition, Los Angeles, USA
• 2015 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
• 2013 “Listen”, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
• 2013 Maria Series, Mark Hachem Gallery, Art Paris, Paris, France
• 2012 Listen, Paris Photo, Paris, France
• 2012 Maria Series, III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
• 2012 Maria Series, Mark Hachem Gallery, The Other Resurrection Show, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2012 British Museum, Hajj, Journey of a Lifetime, London, United Kingdom
• 2012 May Your Wish Come True, Gonzalez Hulshof Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 2012 Somehow, Somewhat In The middle of Things, Lhgwr Gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands
• 2012 Listen, Art Dubai, Aaran Gallery, Dubai, UAE
• 2012 Listen, The Empty Quarter Fine Art Gallery, Women on the Verge, Dubai, UAE
• 2011 Listen, Margins at 7th Photo, Biennial Poznan, Poland
• 2011 Listen, The Third Line Gallery, Snail Fever, Video and Pictures, Dubai, UAE
• 2011 Listen, The Empty Quarter Fine Art Gallery in Menasart Fair, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2011The Day I Became a Woman, Nicolas Silin Gallery, Paris, France
• 2011 Listen, Morono Kiang Gallery, My super Hero, Los Angeles, USA
• 2010 Black or White, Gallery Verso, Turin, Italy
• 2010 No More Bad Girls, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
• 2010 Newsha Tavakolian, Thomas Erben Gallery New York, Duo show, New York City, USA
• 2009 Art Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• 2009 Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, United States
• 2008 Made in Tehran: 6 Frauen-Blicke, Cicero Galerie, Berlin, Germany
• 2008 EVE women photographers collective Angkor Photography Festival, Cambodia
• 2007 EVE women photographers collective slideshow at Visa pour L'image, Perpignan, France
• 2006 EVE women photographers collective Gijón International Festival of Photojournalism, Gijon, Spain
• 2005 Mothers of Martyrs, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2002 Women in Iran, Asar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 1999 News, Khaneh Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Awards:

• 2020 TIME's Best Photojournalism of 2020
• 2017 International Award of Photography-Hall of Fame
• 2016 Shortlisted for the BMW Art Journey
• 2016 Shortlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards for the Best Photography Book
• 2016 Picture of the Year Award, First Place Feature Story
• 2015 Principal Prince Claus Award
• 2014 Fifth laureate of the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award
• 2009 Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize Finalist, United Kingdom
• 2007 Inge Morath Award, Finalist, Magnum Photo Agency, New York, United States
• 2006 Joop Swart Masterclass, World Press Photo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 2006 Still Photography Award from the All Roads Film Project, National Geographic, Washington, D.C, USA
• 2003 Runner-up in Picture of the Year International Competition, Magazine Feature Category, National Press Photographers Association and Missouri School of Journalism, USA

Books:

• Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album
• She Who Tells a Story – Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Kristen Gresh with a foreword by Michket Krifa,MFA Publications
• 2012 Fifth Pillar, Hajj Pilgrimage, by Newsha Tavakolian, Gilgamesh Publishing House
• 2010 A History of Women’s Photographers, by Naomi Rosenblum, Abbeville Press.
• 2008 Iranian Photography Now, by Rose Issa, Hatje Cantz Verlag
• 2009 Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations, by Malu Halasa and Maziar Bahari, Garnet Publishing