Elahe Massumi

Elahe Massumi is an internationally recognized video artist. She was born in Esfahan, Iran in 1961. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Elahe was recently reviewed on the Mujeres que hablan de mujeres | Women who talk about women Web site. Click here to read (in both Spanish and English).

Education: MFA, 1990 Pratt institute, Brooklyn NY - BFA, 1984 Trinity College, Washington DC

Selected Solo Shows

"Narraciones", Televisa Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico, November 2005
"Narraciones", Sala de Exposicione de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain, January 2005
"Narraciones", Telefonica Foundation, Madrid, Spain, September 2004
Selected video installations and still images, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts,
Cape Cod, Summer 2004
"Recent Video Works", Stephen Gang Gallery, New York, October 2000
"Recent Video Works", Stephen Gang Gallery, New York, June 1999
"The Other Side", Orensanz Foundation, New York, May 1993
Pratt Institute, New York, December 1990

Selected Group Shows

Feminist ArtBase, Selected Videos on line, Spring 2007, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, NY
Contemporary artists from Iran, KM Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain, July-October 2005 - Travelling to Copenhagen, Denmark 2006
Tirana Biennale, October 2005
Poles Apart/Poles Together, 51 Venice Biennale, June 2005
Water Ways Project, Venice, June 2005
The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, Channel "0" - "Blood of My Father" Amsterdam, August-October 2004, The Benaki Museum, Athens, February 2006
The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, Channel "0" - "Blood of My Father" Amsterdam, September 2004
Museum of Modern Arts, "Hijras, Obliteration", Stockholm, Sweden, Fall 2004
Shanghai Museum - Infanticide, August 2004
Exit Art - Terrorvision, "Blood of My Father", May-July 2004
Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, "A Trial", April 2004
Scope - NY, Selection of Photographic images/stills from video projects, March 2004
Ethan Cohen Gallery, "Sexy Beasts, A kiss is not a kiss", New York, January 2004
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, "Obliteration", Madrid, Spain, November 2003
Theatre MONTY - Ramatuti, “Blood of My Father”, Antwerp, Belgium, November 2003
Ethan Cohen Gallery, "Sexy Beasts, A kiss is not a kiss", New York, January 2004
The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, Channel "0", Amsterdam, September 2004
Museum of Modern Arts, "Hijras, Obliteration", Stockholm, Sweden, Fall 2004
The Asia Society, "A kiss is not a kiss", New York , Fall 2002
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, "A kiss is not a kiss" Madrid, Spain, Spring 2002
Deste Foundation, " Fusion Cuisine" Athens, Greece, June - September 2002
Theatre Monty, "A kiss is not a kiss" Antwerp, Belgium, February 2002
International Photography Biennial, "Women talking about women" Canary Islands, Spain, November 2001
Centre d'Art Santa Monica, "Trans Sexual Express" Barcelona, Spain, June-September 2001
Exhibited at:
- Traveling to Kunsthalle Mucsarnok in Budapest, January-February 2002
- The City Council Hall in La Corunya, Spain, June 2002
Space Electra, "Iranian Photography" Paris, France, June 2001
Nikolaj Center for Contemporary Arts, "Ekbatana, Images of the World" Copenhagen, DK, August -October 2000
Stephen Gang Gallery, "Technarthology" New York, November 1999
- Exhibited in Israel as: "Architecture of peace", December 2000)
Trans Hudson Gallery, "The Cosmopolitan History" New York, December-January 1998/99
- Exhibited in Bulgaria and France, Fall 1999, Seville, Spain, May 2000)
Guadalajara Expoarte 1997, "Pasarse de la Raya" Mexico, October 1997
5th International Istanbul Biennial - "On Life, Beauty, Translations and Other Difficulties", Fall 1997
Alternative Museum, "Expansion Art - Artists of Our Time" New York, February 1997
The Knitting Factory Video Lounge "Public Secrets", New York, June 1996
Harvard University Gallery, "And God Created Woman" Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 1994
FIA-92 Caracas, Venezuela, June 1992
Jacob Karpio ATMA Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica, February 1992
Art in General, New York, Summer 1992
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, "Artist in The Market Place", Annual Exhibition, New York, Summer 1991

Other Projects

Scope-Paris, October 2005
Photo-NY, October 2004
Scope-London, October 2004
Scope-Miami, December,2004
Photo-LA and ART-LA, JANUARY 2005
Delaware Art Center - Screening of "Trial", April, 2004
Art and Gender Encounters, A Round Table Conference - Sevilla, Spain, February 2004
Conference on presentation and preservation of Digital Art and Media, Sao Paolo, Brazil, August 2001 (Screening and review of "Obliteration")
International Conference on Art and Media , Barcelona, Spain, April 1996 (Screening and review of "Obliteration")
Media and Multiculturalism, Universidad del Valle, Bogota, Columbia, Fall 1996 (Screening and review of "Obliteration")

Public Collections

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
The Kitchen, Video, Dance and Performance Arts, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose, Costa Rica
Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India

Private Collections

George P. Zelenka, Panama, Republic of Panama & North Carolina
Daniel Yankelewitz B., Miami, Florida & San Jose, Costa Rica
Audile Bessez, New York, Brussels, Belgium
Numerous Private Collections: USA

Bibliography - Art Reviews

El Pais, November 16, 2002 - by Manuel Falces
La Opinion de Tenerife, November 15, 2001 - by Cristina Fernandez
Tenerife TV Station, Interview Covering the "Child Prostitution-A kiss is not a kiss", November, 2001
Pars TV - Los Angeles, California, October 17, 2001 - review and demo of The "Trial"
El Pais, June 23, 2001 - by Jaume Vidal
Forward, June 08, 2001 - by Marc Perelman
Information Onsdag, August 23, 2000 - by Charlotte Christensen
Diario de Sevilla, June 01, 2000 - by Juan Bosco Diaz-Urmento
Review Magazine, June 15, 1999 - by Jeanne C. Wilkinson
Art in America, April 1998 - by Eleanor Heartney (Review of "The Fifth International Istanbul Biennial")
Resident (on line: http://www.resident.com), March 1997- by Karin Randolph
Radikal, Review of The Fifth International Istanbul Biennial, November 1997
Cumhuriyet, Review of The Fifth International Istanbul Biennial, October 1997
Art Nexus, March 1994 - by Benjamin Weil
La Revue Du Liban, May 1994 - by Samia Abboud (Review of "And God Created Woman")
New York Times, July 1991 - by Viviane Raynor (Review of "Artist in the Market Place")

Critics and essays

Ramatuti, Belgium, November 2003 and Channel 0, Netherlands, August 2004 - Essay by Robert Knafo
Women talking about women, November 2001 - Essay by Berta Sichel and Alicia Murria
Trans Sexual Express, June - September 2001 - Essay by Berta Sichel
The Essay for the catalogue of Iranian Photography by Nickolas Mirzoeff, June 2001
Ekbatana, images of the world, August - October 2000 - Essay by Berta Sichel
Cosmopolitan History, December 1998 - Essay by Berta Sichel
The Essay in the catalogue of the Fifth International Istanbul Biennial, October 1997 - Essay by Eleanor Heartney
The Brochure for Exhibition at the Stephen Gang Gallery, June 1999 - Essay by Eleanor Heartney