Nairy Baghramian was born in 1971 in Isfahan, Iran. She currently lives and works in Berlin.
Nairy Baghramian has had numerous international solo exhibitions including at the Ecole nationale des Beaux-arts de Paris, France (2018); Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain (2018), Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria (2017); the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2017); Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2017); S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium (2016); Museum Haus Konstructiv, Zurich, Switzerland (2016); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (2015); Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (2014); Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal (2014); MIT Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2013); and the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York (2013). She has been the recipient of the Zurich Art Prize (2016); the Arnold-Bode Prize, Kassel (2014); the Hector Prize, Kunsthalle Mannheim (2012); and the Ernst Schering Foundation Award (2007). Baghramian has taken part in Documenta 14, Kassel and Greece (2017); Sculpture Project, Muenster, Germany (2017); and the 45th International Venice Biennial, Italy (2011).
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery



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