Education

She received her BA in photography from Azad art and architecture University—

 

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

Monzavi’s work has been featured in the following cultural institutions:

  • Upcoming exhibition: Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East, opening at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Apr. 2023, and traveling to the Phoenix Art Museum (Nov. 2023 – Mar. 2024)
  • In the Fields of Empty Days: Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art, LACMA, (2018)
  • OXYS in Black and White, Screening international video-art of the 21st century, MAXXI Museum, Rome (2018) and MACRO, Rome's Museum of Contemporary Art (2018)
  • Iranian Artists, Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art, Tbilisi, Georgia (2018)
  • Unedited History, Iran 1960-2014, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (2014)
  • Grape Garden, Nights of Photography, Giorgi Leonidze Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia (2012)

AWARDS AND NOTABLE MENTIONS

Monzavi received the Sheed Award for excellence in social documentary photography in 2011.

Her work has received mentions in a number of prestigious publications like the New York Times, Internazionale, Paris Match, the British Journal of Photography, Le Figaro, L’Oeil de la Photographie, and Elle Magazine. She is featured in “La Photographie Iranienne” published by LOCO, in the catalog of the exhibition titled “Iran, Unedited History 1960 - 2014” published by the Musée d’Art Moderne (Paris) , and in “Iran 38” published by Editions Textuel and a book titled “ A self-torn apart” published by centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) and gallery Eric dupon 2022 and prix pictet award book 2022 “fire”.

Tahmineh Monzavi is also known as a film director and producer. Sometimes her photography and film work merge into continuous subject of artistic exploration. For example, the Grape garden alley series in 2010-2012 developed into a feature length documentary film about a shelter for addicted women in Tehran. As a co-director. She had an important interview in this film with Jean Cloud Carrier.

Tahmineh received international recognition with the film About the Salesman (2018) , A film about a film which won two trophies for the Best Actor and Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2017.

SOLO  EXHIBITIONS

2022 A Self Torn Apart, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris.
2021 Bodies of Nature, Galerie Felix Frachon, Brussels,
2019 Red Soil, Cold soil, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran.
2017 Past continuous, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2016 All about me, Nicknamed Crown Giver, The Public House of Art, Amsterdam.
  Past continuous, Hinterland Gallery, Vienna.
2015 All about me, Nicknamed Crown Giver, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran.
  Review of Tahmineh Monzavi's Artworks, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston.
2014 Brides of Mokhber-al-Dowleh, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran.

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 “ Women Defining women” in Contemporary art of the Middle East at LACMA        museum in Los Angeles in April 2023 and traveling to the Phoenix art museum (Nov.2023- March 2024)

 

Group show at Robert Klein Gallery Jan- March 2023
2022 Venti, Aurea, Anima, Sprit of Fluidity, Foundry Downtown gallery, Dubai (21 Nov. 2022); Group show at the Felix Frachon gallery, Brussels (Dec.-Jan. 2022)
2020 Dans la tête c’est Mexico, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris.
2018 In the Fields of Empty Days : The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art, LACMA, Los Angeles.

 

OXYS in black and white, Screening international video-art of the 21st century, MACRO, Rome's Museum of Contemporary Art.

International Women Photography Award exhibition, Alliance Française, Paris.

Guardi Iraniani, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
2017 Collection of Sammlung Verbund, Vienna
  Past continuous, Hinterland Gallery, Vienna.
2015 Re-Action, Gijon Museum, Spain.
2014 Unedited History. Iran 1960-2014, MAXXI Museum, Rome.

 

Unedited History. Iran 1960-2014, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Dance of the Seven Veils, Side by Side Gallery, Berlin. A Requiem for a Desolation, Hinterland Gallery, Vienna. Iranian Photography, Milles Gallery, Sydney.

Burning Down the House, 10th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea.
2013 Dance of the Veil, Side by Side Gallery, Berlin.

 

A view of documentary photography in Iran 1987-2013, Silk Road, Tehran.

OXYS in black and white, nomad exhibition, Milan, and Syros (Greece).

 
2012 Grape Garden, Nights of Photography, Giorgi Leonidze Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2011 Alternative Histories, National Portrait Gallery, London.
2010 A Selection of Young, Talented Iranian Photographers, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran; Tehran: Documentary Photographs from the Last 40 Years, Arran Gallery, Tehran.