EDUCATION:
2014 MFA Fine Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1999 BA English, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
AWARDS and RECOGNITION
2021 5 Women Artists for Women’s Month, El Centro Art Department, Dallas College, Dallas, TX
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 Otis-Sandberg Fellowship, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014 Vermont Studio Center Residency Grant, Johnson, VT
2012-2014 Otis Institutional Grant, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Second Place Award, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Otis Franklin Grant, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
ARTIST FAIRS, JURYING, TALKS, CONFERENCES, AND PANELS:
2022 Jury for Annual Student Art Show, MCC Art Gallery, Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ
2020 Outsider Art Fair (OPaf), Scream Queen booth, Angels Gate Cultural Center,
San Pedro, CA
2020 The Farm and Distillery booth, QiPO 02 Artist Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
2019 Artist’s Talk, European School of Design, Frankfurt, Germany
2016 Artist Panel, Arizona State University Fine Arts Department, Tempe, AZ
2010 Graduate Panel Discussion and Exhibition, Claremont Graduate University,
Claremont, CA
FELLOWSHIPS and RESIDENCIES:
2025 Artist-in-Residence, La Maison de Beaumont, Beaumont-de-Pertuis, France
2020 Artist-in-Residence, Snow Farm- The New England Craft Program, Williamsburg, MA
2020 Artist-in-Residence, Banff Artist-in-Residence, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2019 Artist-in-Residence, Hosted by Sandra Mann, Frankfurt, Germany
2019 Artist-in-Residence, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2018 Publication Fellowship, Peripheral Vision Press, New York, NY
2017 Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2016 Artist-in-Residence, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2014 Fellowship, Otis-Sandberg Residency Exchange Fellowship, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
2011 Artist-in-Residence, Summer Residency Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Solo:
2020 Re-rooted / Re-routed, Das Schaufenster Gallery, Seattle, WA
2020 Shiva Aliabadi Online Exhibition, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff,
Alberta, Canada
2017 The Collectivists, curator Kara W. Tomé, Brand Library, Glendale, CA
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 and Online:
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, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Online Feature, Foundwork Art, Guest Curator Sharon Louden, New York, NY
2019 Online Feature, Field Projects Gallery, New York, New York
2019 ephemeral, Kamikaze July 2019 POST exhibitions, MiM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Through Places, Kamikaze July 2019 POST exhibitions, MiM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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, Johnson, VT
2017 Black & White, Deutsch Bildung AG, Frankfurt, Germany
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, Culver City, 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, Coachella Valley Arts Center, Indio, CA
2014 Itch, Scratch, Scar, Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA), Los Angeles, CA
2014 GLAMFA, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2014 Another Thing Coming, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, 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
PUBLICATIONS, INTERVIEWS, VIDEOS, 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
-Ray, Sharmistha. “Now, More than Ever, What?,” 2020. sharmistharay.com
-Vetter, Grant. Abshar: Cascade (catalogue on Shiva Aliabadi’s work and exhibition
with Essay by Grant Vetter). June, 2020.
-Wassaic Project. Now, more than ever (2020 Summer Exhibition). July, 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, www.tenover6.com
-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.contemporary@artpodcast.com
2014 -artperiscope, “LAnCV at Coachella Valley Art Center,” The Artist’s Periscope, February 26, 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: seeMagazine, 2014.
-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,
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