NAZGOL ANSARINIA
b. 1979, IranNazgol Ansarinia’s work examines the systems and networks that underpin her daily life such as everyday objects, routines, events and experiences, and the relationship they form to a larger social context. Born and raised in Tehran, Ansarinia’s practice reflects upon tensions between private worlds and the wider socioeconomic realm, and how local iterations of a culture might act as a site for the hopes and fears of those living in a(faltering) globalised word.
Her recent projects, ranging across sculpture, installation, drawing, and video, represent ways of understanding the role of architecture in delineating interior and exterior spaces and private and public spheres.
Informed by her interdisciplinary background in art and design, projects range in approach and material to offer a perspective that considers the aesthetic and theoretical implications of vernacular architectural practices within the built environment. Ansarinia’s works are largely observational and technical in their scope, offering insight into the issues that are most pressing and urgent for today’s cities and the populations that inhabit them.
Born in 1979 in Tehran, Nazgol Ansarinia graduated from the London College of Communication in 2001 before taking a Master of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco in 2003.
Solo exhibitions include: Dissolving Substances, MILAAP, Hellerup, Denmark (2025); Instruments of Viewing and Obscurity, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2025); C4, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein (2022); Lakes Drying, Tides Rising, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2022); The Room Becomes a Street, curated by Aram Moshayedi, Argo Factory, Tehran, Iran (2020); Demolishing buildings, buying waste, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2018); Fragments, Particles and the Mechanisms of Growth, KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium (2017); Surfaces & Solids, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2015) and Interior Renovations, Green Cardamom, London, UK (2011) amongst others.
Selected group exhibitions include: After Rain, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024, Riyadh, KSA (2024); NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2023); Utopian Scenario About Nature, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea (2023); Vanishing Point, A selection of works from Pejman collection, Argo Factory, Tehran, Iran (2022); The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (2021); Hungry for Time, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria (2021); Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, The British Museum, London, UK (2021); DEMO, MAK Center, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Fragile Frontiers: Visions on Iran’s in/visible borders, YARAT Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan (2019); Revolution Begins at Home, with Architects Hamed Khosravi and Roozbeh Elias-Azar, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Sharjah, UAE (2019); and The Spark is You: Parasol Unit in Venice, curated by Ziba Ardalan, 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2019) amongst others.
Her works are in several important collections including British Museum, London, UK; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France; San Francisco, CA; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Queensland, Australia; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE and Tate Collection, London, UK.
She lives and works in Tehran, Iran.
Courtesy Green Art Gallery
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