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 Hamid
Reza Severi
Art Historian and
Curator
Born: Sari, Iran 1958
Education:
M.A. in Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
B.A. in Art Studio, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Experiences:
1997-8 Head of Photography Dept., Art & Architecture Faculty of Azad
University
1998-1999 Educational Affair Deputy, Art & Architecture Faculty of Azad
University
2003-08 Head of Research Dept. Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
2003- Now, Member of Art Research Council, Iranian Academy of the Arts
Teaching:
Courses:
Art History Survey, Art Criticism, Introduction to Contemporary Art,
Introduction to Contemporary Photography, Introduction to Feminist Art
and Aesthetics
At: Tehran University, University of Art, Azad Islamic University, Aria
Gallery, Mah-e Mehr Cultural and Artistic Institute, Qobad Shiva Art &
Cultural Institute
Jury member for various domestic and regional art competitions
including:
Students’
Art and Cultural Festival, Tehran, 2001
9th
Photography Contest, Muscat, Omman 2002
The
International Student Fajr Theater Festival, Photography Section 2002
First Digital
Photography Contest, Tehran, 2003
4th
Tehran Sculpture Biennale, 2005
2nd
Sand Sculpture Festival, Babolsar, 2006
The
South Regional Drawing and Painting Festival, Qeshm, 2007
Creative
Photography, Fanoos Slide Show Contest, 2007
3rd
Sand Sculpture Festival, Babolsar and Sari, 2007
Vision
Photography Festival, Shemiranat, 2007
Member of
policymaking committee for:
11th
Iran Photo Biennale 2008
9th
Tehran Photo Biennale, 2004
3rd
New Art Exhibition, Tehran 2004
2nd
New Art Exhibition, Tehran, 2002
Conference Secretary of:
6th
Tehran Painting Biennale, 2003 Tehran Museum of Comtemorary Ar
Modern
Art Movement Exhibition 2005 Tehran Museum of Comtemorary Art
Iranian Modern Art Movement Exhibition 2005 Tehran Museum of Comtemorary
Art
Silver
Windows: A Selection of Iranian Contemporary Photographers Exhibition
2006 Tehran Museum of Comtemorary Art
Co-Curator
of:
"A Glimpse of
Iran; A Selection of Iranian Contemporary Photography", Thessaloniki
Museum of Photography, Greece, 10 - 24 NOVEMBER 2002
"Persian Silver; Contemporary Photography from Iran", Nash Gallery,
Minnesota, USA, 2004
“Beams of Blue: Iranian Video Art”, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi,
India, 2004 and many venues in Italy
“Persian Vision: Contemporary Photography from Iran”, for catalogue, and
venues in different cities in the USA click here
Writings:
Book Review
of Life in Iran CIRA Bulletin Vol. 10 No. 3 USA 1995
Introduction of A Glimpse of Iran Catalogue of the Exhibiton 2002
“Photography Creates Reality” Jam-e Jam Newspaper, Oct. 2nd 2001 p.
“Reading a Photograph” Creative Photography Summer/Fall 2006 No. 7-8, pp
87-88.
“Desiring Contemporary Iranian Photography” Introduction to Ey! Iran:
Contemporary Iranian Photography Gold Coast Art Gallery, Australia, 2006
Lectures:
Sep. 1999
“Rehabilitation in Tehran” A report in Towards Community Awareness for
Rehabilitating the Physical Environment for Special Education Needs
Amman, Jordan
May 2001 “New Kinds of Art” Arasbaran Cultural Center
Sep. 2001 “Postmodernism and Photography” Tarikh Publishing House
May 2002 “Conceptual Art” Art Univesity
Sep. 2002 “ Minimalism, Post Minimalism and Photography” Arasbaran
Cultural Center
Sep. 2002 “Photographic Views on Iran: Near and Far” Niaavaran Cultural
Center
Nov. 2002 “Contemporary Art and Photography” Tehran Museum of
Contemporary Art
Jan. 2003 “ Photo Art in Contemporary World” Isfahan Museum of
Contemporary Art
Mar. 2003 “Association of Paintbrush and Lens” Isfahan Painting Biennale
Apr. 2003 “Appropriation in Contemporary Photography” Tehran Museum of
Contemporary Art
Aug. 2004 “Women and Art History” Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Oct. 2004 “Iranian Video Art” Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Dec. 2004 “Association of Photograph and Sculpture” Iranian Artists’
Forum
April 2005 “Anna Mendieta and Earth-Body” Iranian Artists’ Forum
July 2005 “New Generation of Iranian Art Photographers: Approaches and
Challenges” Kellog College, Oxford University
Sep. 2005 “Donald Judd: on Praising the Perception of Object” Tehran
Museum of Contemporary Art
Apr. 2006 “An Overview of the Art of the Last Four Decades” Sari
Aug. 2006 “Samples of Contemporary Photo Art Approaches” Tehran Museum
of Contemporary Art
Jan. 2007 “Art Criticism: the Entanglement of Frame or the Expanded
Taste” Sari
Feb. 2007 “ Whys and Hows in Contemporary Art” Yazd University
Oct. 2007 “Mokarrameh, Narrator of Concerns”, Darikandeh, Babol
Nov. 2007 “The Role of Size in Contemporary Sculpture” Tehran Museum of
Contemporary Art
Feb. 2008 “ Whys and Hows of Neo-Conceptual Art” Nishaboor University
Apr. 2008 “Relationship between Contemporary Art and Craft” Sooreh
University
May 2008 “Revising the Craft Education: A necessity” University of Art
Jun. 2008 “Post Modernism and Photography” Iranian Academy of the Arts
Jul. 2008 “Sculpture and Media” Iranian Artists’ Forum
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