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GELARE KHOSHGOZARAN

b. 1986, Iran
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Gelare Khoshgozaran Biography

Gelare Khoshgozaran is an undisciplinary artist and writer whose work engages with the legacies of imperial violence manifested in war and militarization, borders, and archives. She uses film and video to explore narratives of belonging outside of the geographies and temporalities that both unsettle our sense of home, and make our places of affinity uninhabitable.

Gelare’s work has been exhibited at the New Museum, Queens Museum, Hammer Museum, LAXART, Human Resources, Plug In ICA, Cell Project Space, Delfina Foundation, Beursschouwburg, and Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual among others. Gelare was the recipient of a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2015), an Art Matters Award (2017), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2019) a Graham Foundation Award (2020), and The Andy Warhol Foundatinon LACE Lightning Fund (2023). With words published in contemptorary (co-founding editor), The Brooklyn Rail, Parkett, X-TRA, LA Review of Books, Temporary Art Review, Ajam Media Collective, and Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value (C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp. MIT Press co-published by the New Museum), Gelare is an editor at MARCH: a journal of art and strategy, and an editorial board member at_X-TRA._

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Gelare Khoshgozaran, To Be the Author of One's Own Travels (2023). 16mm projection. 2 min 30 sec. Exhibition view: To Be the Author of One's Own Travels, Delfina Foundation, London (23 June–6 August 2023). Courtesy Delfina Foundation. Photo: Thierry Bal.
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Gelare Khoshgozaran, To Keep the Mountain at Bay (2023). Filmed in Super 8, digitised to HD. 9 min 30 sec. Exhibition view: To Be the Author of One's Own Travels, Delfina Foundation, London (23 June–6 August 2023). Courtesy Delfina Foundation. Photo: Thierry Bal.
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Gelare Khoshgozaran, Medina Wasl: Connecting Town (2018) (still). 16mm film transferred to video, colour, and sound. 31 min. Courtesy the artist.
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Gelare Khoshgozaran, The Retreat (2023) (still). 16mm film transferred to 4K video, colour, and sound. 20 min. Courtesy the artist.
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Gelare Khoshgozaran, Medina Wasl: Connecting Town (2018) (still). 16mm film transferred to video, colour, and sound. 31 min. Courtesy the artist.
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Gelare Khoshgozaran, The Retreat (2023) (still). 16mm film transferred to 4K video, colour, and sound. 20 min. Exhibition view: To Be the Author of One's Own Travels, Delfina Foundation, London (23 June–6 August 2023). Courtesy Delfina Foundation. Photo: Thierry Bal.
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Gelare Khoshgozaran, Medina Wasl: Connecting Town (2018). Exhibition view: Made in L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (3 June–2 September 2018). Courtesy the artist. Photo: Brian Forrest.
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Gelare Khoshgozaran, To Keep the Mountain at Bay (2023) (still). Super 8 film transferred to video, sound, and colour. 9 min 30 sec. Courtesy the artist.
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Gelare Khoshgozaran, The Retreat (2023) (still). 16mm film transferred to 4K video, colour, and sound. 20 min. Exhibition view: To Be the Author of One's Own Travels, Delfina Foundation, London (23 June–6 August 2023). Courtesy Delfina Foundation. Photo: Thierry Bal.
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Gelare Khoshgozaran, The Retreat (2023) (still). 16mm film transferred to 4K video, colour, and sound. 20 min. Courtesy the artist.
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Gelare Khoshgozaran, To Keep the Mountain at Bay (2023). Filmed in Super 8, digitised to HD. 9 min 30 sec. Exhibition view: To Be the Author of One's Own Travels, Delfina Foundation, London (23 June–6 August 2023). Courtesy Delfina Foundation. Photo: Thierry Bal.
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Gelare Khoshgozaran, Medina Wasl: Connecting Town (2018) (still). 16mm film transferred to video, colour, and sound. 31 min. Courtesy the artist.
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Gelare Khoshgozaran in Ocula Magazine

Gelare Khoshgozaran Finds a Politics of Home After Exile
Conversation Gelare Khoshgozaran Finds a Politics of ‘Home’ After Exile Stephanie Bailey L.A.‑based Iranian artist Gelare Khoshgozaran is always thinking about home. What it means, where it is, and how it can manifest as a feeling more than a place.

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