EDUCATION:
2014 MFA Fine Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1999 BA English, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (please contact artist for full CV)
Solo:
2020 Re-rooted / Re-routed, Das Schaufenster Gallery, Seattle, WA
2020 Shiva Aliabadi, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta,
2016 Abshar: Cascade, Fine Arts Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
2014 Material, Helen and Abraham Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Dialogues, Proxy Gallery, 10455 Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Group:
2022 PHX ART NOW IV, MCC Art Gallery, Mesa, AZ
2020 Memory and the Chromatroposphere, Curated by Grant Vetter, mood room, Phoenix, AZ
2020 Not Originally From Here, Unless Otherwise Stated, Curated by Dawn Ertl, Online exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Now, more than ever, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York
2020 Los Angeles Landscapes, Curated by Diane Williams, USC Roski,
2020 Online Feature, Foundwork Art, Guest Curator Sharon Louden, New York, NY
2019 Online Feature, Field Projects Gallery, New York, New York
2019 Fresh 2019, SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Salon 2018, Peripheral Vision Press, New York, NY
2017 Peace Love and Light, Kunstraum-Dreieich Gallery, Dreieich, Germany
2017 LA Painting: Formalism to Street Art, Bruno David Gallery, Clayton, MO
2017 Bitter Candy, Gallery II, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2017 Black & White, Deutsche Bildung AG, Frankfurt, Germany
2017 live/work, Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, VT
2016 BLIND SPOT, Design Matters, Los Angeles, CA
2016 British Invasion, MOAH (Museum of Art and History), Lancaster, CA
2016 On the Verge of an Image: Considering Marjorie Keller, The Gamble House, Pasadena, CA; Curated by LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division)
2016 Homing Pigeon—travelling photo exhibit, Los Angeles, USA; Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Japan; Turku, Naantali, Finland
2016 Allusive Moment, MiM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Doppelgänger, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2015 Testament: Installations by Shiva Aliabadi and Allison Peck, Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Uncanny, MuzeuMM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Of Silence, Outpost Projects and Tilt/Export, Curated by Jenene Nagy, Yucca Valley, CA
2015 Splitting Light, University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY
2015 An Odyssey—10 Years at TAM, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2015 Yokohama-Tokyo-Los Angeles Triennial, Yokohama, Japan
2015 LA n CV 2, Choachella Valley Art Center, Indio, CA
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES:
2020 Snow Farm The New England Craft Program, Williamsburg, MA
2020 Banff Artist-in-Residence, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2019 Frankfurt Residency, Hosted by Sandra Mann, Frankfurt, Germany
2019 Artist-in-Residence, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2018 Publication Fellowship, Peripheral Vision Press, New York, NY
2016 Artist-in-Residence, Summer Residency Program, School of Visual Arts
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2014 Fellow, Otis-Sandberg Residency Exchange Fellowship, Amsterdam,
2013 Anderson Ranch, Instruction by Jenene Nagy, Snowmass Village, CO
2011 Artist-in-Residence, Summer Residency Program, School of Visual Arts,
2004-2010 Summer Writing Program, Naropa University, Boulder, CO
2002 Fine Arts Work Center, Instruction by John Yau, Provincetown, MA
2014 GLAMFA, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2014 Another Thing Coming, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2014 Itch, Scratch, Scar, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Potential Bodies, Space at 10455 Jefferson Blvd, Culver City, CA
2014 ELEVEN, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Tip the Wink, The Institute of Jamais Vu, London, England
2014 MAS (Ltd Ed), Studio 17, San Francisco, CA
2014 Out of Place, Historic Villa Riviera, Long Beach, CA
2013 MAS ATTACK 2, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2013 Los Angeles Juried Biennial at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles Municipal Art
JURYING:
2022 Annual Student Art Show, MCC Art Gallery, Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ
AWARDS:
2020 Jim Dinning and Evelyn Main Endowed Scholarship for Visual Arts (Banff Art Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada)
2019 Wassaic Residency Grant, Wassaic, NY
2017 Vermont Studio Center Residency Grant, Johnson, VT
2014 Vermont Studio Center Residency Grant, Johnson, VT
2014 Otis-Sandberg Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA/ Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013-2014 Otis Institutional Grant, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles,
2013 Second Place Award, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2012- 2013 Otis Institutional Grant, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles,CA
2012 Otis Franklin Grant, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Graduate Student Council’s Travel Award, Clark University
2004 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Clark University
PUBLICATIONS, INTERVIEWS, AND PODCASTS:
2023
Annetta Kapon: Proxy Gallery 10 Years, November, 2023, www.blurb.com
2020
Interview with Gallerist Anna Mlasowsky for Re-rooted / Re-routed, at Das Schaufenster Gallery, Seattle, WA, October, 2020, https://www.instagram.com/p/CHRZfv5HKgE/
Interview/Conversation between Shiva Aliabadi and Debra Scacco for Not Originally From Here, Unless Otherwise Stated, curated by Dawn Ertl, September, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Hk7q43ykY
Wassaic Project. Now, more than ever (2020 Summer Exhibition). July, 2020.
Vetter, Grant. Abshar: Cascade (catalogue on Shiva Aliabadi’s work and exhibition with Essay by Grant Vetter). June, 2020.
2019
Brommel, Joe. Shiva Aliabadi, Artist-in-Residence, Interview with Joe Brommel, Wassaic Project, May 2019. https://www.wassaicproject.org/artists/artist-profiles/list/shiva-aliabadi
2018
Peripheral Vision Press. “Salon 2018,” Peripheral Vision, Fall 2018. https://www.peripheralvisionarts.org
2017
Davis, Genie. “The British Invasion at MOAH,” Art and Cake, January 24, 2017, www.artandcakela.com
2016
Bode, Katie. “On the Verge of an Image: Considering Marjorie Keller by LAND at the Gamble House,” carla, October 21, 2016, www.contemporaryartreview.la
Clark, Artemis Marie Dolores. "Art + Architecture: On the Verge of an Image at The Gamble House," Tenoversix, December, 10, 2016,
2016
Johnson, Cooper. "Gallery Rounds: Allusive Moment, MiM Gallery," Artillery Magazine. June 13, 2016, www.artillerymag.com
Kapon, Annetta. Proxy Gallery: 2013-2016. Los Angeles, CA: Annetta Kapon, 2016.
Swenson, Eric Minh, “Shiva Aliabadi: British Invasion,” Vimeo, December, 2016, https://vimeo.com/196211716
2015
Dabkowski, Colin. “In Living Color, UB Explores Boundaries of Perception,” The Buffalo News. October 19, 2015, www.buffalo.com
Foran, Jack. “Rainbow Collection: An Exploration of Color at UB Center for the Arts,” Artvoice, Issue v14n46, November 19, 2015, www.artvoice.com
New American Paintings, No. 117 (2015), MFA Annual
Osborne-Bartucca, Kristen, Interview, Contemporary Art Podcast, April 22, 2015, www.contemporaryartpodcast.com
2014
ARTRA Curatorial. “Emergent Presence: Eight LA Artists You Should Know,” FABRIK, Issue 23, February, 2014, www.fabrik.la
Cadigan, Morgan. Interview, seeMag, Issue 2, Los Angeles, CA:
Knight, Christopher. “Object lessons at Torrance Art Museum’s ‘Another Thing Coming,” Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2014.
New American Paintings, No. 115 (2014), Pacific Coast Issue
Osborne-Bartucca, Kristen. “Another Thing Coming, New Sculpture at Torrance Art Museum,”Artillery Magazine, September 30, 2014.
Taylor, Jack. “Week 2—Artist Interview—Shiva Aliabadi,” September 8, 2014, jackandrewtaylor.wordpress.com
BLOG: Pulse Stream, https://pulsestream.wordpress.com
2018
Glitter Guns, Cold Hard Cash, and Libtards: Natalie Baxter’s Plush Nerve, June 27, Pulse Stream, https://pulsestream.wordpress.com
2017
One Giant Nervous Laugh: The Complex Work of Yoshie Sakai, October 4, Pulse Stream, https://pulsestream.wordpress.com
2016
Interview with Tessie Salcido Whitmore, December 6, Pulse Stream, https://pulsestream.wordpress.com