Born: July27,1980, Yazd
Art Movement: Interdisciplinary artist, poet and writer
Poems and projects: www.Project.animaehtiat.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 “Out of The Frame”, Nagar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2024 “The World of Spectra”, Nagar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2023 “Process”, Vali Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2017 “Along”, Nagar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016 “Openness”, Arte Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2009 “Paris in Motion and Attachment”, Laleh Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2008 “My Little Friend, the sea”, Café 78, Tehran, Iran
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 “About Life”, Niyavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran
2022 “Alizarin Red”, Negar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2017 “Painting”, Shahrzad Theater Complex, Tehran, Iran
Professional Experience:
2022 Soil and Dog, installation and video installation, part of the group project Search, Iraj Zand Foundation, Tehran, Iran
2020 Dialogue, performance art, as part of the joint Iran–India event (Performance Art Project: Asia)
2019 Letters to the Earth, performance art, part of the group project Fereshteh Performance Art Nights, Fereshteh Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2019 Stone and Jar, land art, with Ulrika Sparre, Raah Residency, Tehran, Iran
2019 Stone and Jar, performance art and artist talk, with Ulrika Sparre, Daa house, Tehran, Iran
2017 Meta Art, performance art, part of the group project Range (For Future Cities), Sayeh Gallery, Tehran
2017 Letters to the Earth – Letter No. 2, land art, Gothenburg, Sweden
2016 The Bird, performance art, 5th Performance Art Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
2016 Concept and design of the sound-based event, Negar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016 Wild Horse, performance art (in collaboration with Damoon Farhat), Negar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016 Letters to the Earth – Letter No. 1, land art, Yazd, Iran
2015 Book Designer – An Atmosphere of the World of Spectra, a collaborative open-book project featuring 13 contemporary artists, presenting conceptual ideas for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran , Iran
2015 Curator of the art project Art Against ISIS, Arte Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2015 For Sale, performance art, Arte Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2015 The Mirror Stage or What I Am Not, group exhibition of new art, Arte Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 Slaughter of the Polar Bear, performance art, 4th Performance Art Festival, East Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 Suspension and Belonging, performance art, 3rd Performance Art Festival, East Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 Group exhibition, 2nd Portrait Festival, Sadrang Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 The Gap, performance art, East Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 Play 1, performance art, Aria Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 Tell Me About the Pear Tree, performance art, Aria Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 Pure Destruction, performance art, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 Secrets 1, 2 & 3, performance art, Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran
2010 Screening of Tree – Shoes, in Tasvir-e-Saal event, Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran
2008 Mona Lisa, photograph, selected in the open section of the 8th Abarang Photography Festival, Mashhad, Iran
Seminars & Workshops:
Seminar: The Spectrum of Performance in Modulation Art (an art existing between all arts and none of them) – East Gallery
Workshop: Happening, Performance Art, and Modulation Art – Arte Gallery
Workshop: Modulation Art – Open Workshops, University of Art
Interviews and reviews:
- “Interview with Anima Ehtiat about the ‘Process’ painting exhibition, published in Shargh Newspaper.”
- “Review by Sara Karimian in Etemad Newspaper for Anima Ehtiat’s painting exhibition.”
BOOKS:
Anima’s Symphonies or…. Poetry. Parse Publishing. 2003.(Karnama Poetry Award)
Feast in the Fig Garden Pros. Short Plays. Negima Publishing. 2008.
Everybody’s Ears Are their Heads Caves. Sit in your caves praying. Poetry, Negima Publishing. 2009.
I Still See the White Words, Poetry. Negima Publishing. 2009.
Observing Heavenly Dreams with a Lead Telescope, Sokhan Gostar Publishing. 2011.
Dark and Damp Holes, Play. Afraz Publishing. 2012.
Like Someone Who Has Forgotten her Song, Novel. Dastan Publishing. 2015.
(Part of 14 different novels of 2015 selected by the VAV Literary Award)
Nightly Wanderings with Noble Faces, Novel. Dastan Publishing. 2016.
(Nominee for Best Different Novel of the Year – VAV Award)
The Mass of Birds with Weeping Blue Eyes, Poetry. Dastan Publishing. 2016.
Like Someone Who Has Forgotten her Song, Novel. Pomegranate Publication., Second edition 2021.
Insomnia, Novel. Pomegranate Publication. 2021.
Translation and Publication of Selected Poems in the Book “From the Alleys of Silence” (Stegen van stilte), In Dutch. 2007.
Magazines:
Karnameh Magazine, Issues 46 and 47
Vazn-e Donya Magazine, Issue 29
Vazn-e Donya Magazine, Issue 33
Volt 28
Lana Turner journal 17
