About
Niyaz Azadikhah is a self-taught multi-disciplinary and community artist based in Paris. Through her work from painting and stitch work to video animation, Niyaz relates the stories of the people she comes across and explores the inner worlds of the storytellers and their emotions centered around fear, love, childhood memories, confessions, cultural taboos, and traumas where she is immersed in as an Iranian artist.
Niyaz produces and reproduces each story to a visual voice as she needles in the story, threading a narrative that shapes into a stitched drawing as the inherent soft and delicate nature of thread on fabric evokes the same texture as in the intimacy of the emotions depicted and to burrow right into the consciousness of the viewer, and makes them engage with their personal feelings while addressing them directly to a scene.
Her works have been featured in numerous exhibitions including Centre Pompidou, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, and Palais de Tokyo. Her latest animation videos are part of the Collectivity of Corsica – FRAC Corsican.
Work experience
2014 Rokni Haerizadeh. Assistant for the reflection moon is dry in a bowl video animation
2013 Rokni Haerizadeh. Assistant for the reign of winter video animation
2010 Rokni Haerizadeh. Assistant for fictionville video animation
2005 -2010 Assistant Director & animation compositing, Pahlevanan 36 Episode Animation TV series Tehran, Iran
Lectures (seminars, conferences, …)
2022 Fondazione Imago Mundi, Via canova 11 Treviso, Italy
Article published in a journal
2022 LaLettura #569 – Italy
Award
2011 Final List of MOP CAP
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 “Salasat” – Dastan’s Basement, Tehran, Iran
2014 “Every Beginning is but continuation” – Jorjani Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 “The Cypress” – Fiuz Gallery, Kashan, Iran
2023 “Female Migrations and Sexual Violence” – Association Magnitude Zéro, Paris, France
2023 “Freedom is not free” – Shame Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2022 “Les souvenirs d’une fleur endormie sur la soi” – Galerie Nouchine Pahlevan, Paris, France
2022 “This will keep you warm” – Khoj International Artists Association, Delhi, India
2021 “In The Snail Circuit” – Soo Contemporary Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2021 “The Sowers” – Foundation Thalie, Brussels, Belgium
2021 +2Gallery, Paris Asian Art Fair, Paris, France
2020 “Dissolving into the pluriverse” – Collaboration with Anouch Moazzeni – Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
2020 “When people decide to end themselves” – Project13 & central stage /USA Ca (virtual exhibition)
2020 “New Drawings” – Soo Contemporary Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2019 Toronto Biennial of Art Collaboration work with Ramin, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, Canada
2018 “Forgive Me Distant Wars for Bringing Flowers Home” – Collaboration work with Ramin, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian – OGR Office – Grandi Riparazioni, Torino, Italy
2018 “The Maids” – Collaboration work with Ramin, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian – MACB- Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain
2015 “Nice Drawings” – IVDE Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2013 Parallel Vienna, Austria
2013 “Garden of Eden” – Galerie Utopia, Berlin, Germany
2013 “Babylon Baby” – Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
2012 “For God’s Sake” – United arts & design presents, Berlin, Germany
2011 “++video++” – Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE
2011 “What Lies Beneath” – IVDE Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2011 MOP CAP shortlists exhibition – Traffic Gallery, Dubai, UAE.
2011 “How Lucky We Are, Angel at Our Table, God in Our Car” – Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
2011 MOP CAP Finalist Exhibition – The Royal College, London, England
2003 Painting Exhibition – Andishe Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
Collaboration Performance
2022 “Stitch on the body of freedom” – Collaboration with Alireza Shojaian – Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso, Italy
2022 “Stitches on the body of freedom” – Collaboration with Alireza Shojaian – Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Public Collection
Fondazione Imago Mundi