Kurzvita

Gohar Dashti is a highly acclaimed Iranian-American artist who has made significant contributions to the field of photography. She received her M.A. in photography from the Tehran University of Art in 2005 and has been making large-scale photography for the past 18 years, with a particular focus on social issues. Dashti's work references history and contemporary culture and employs a unique, quasi-theatrical aesthetic that combines anthropological and sociological perspectives to illuminate and elaborate upon her perception of the world around her.

In her most recent works, Dashti has explored, through her highly stylized, densely poetic observations of human and plant-life, the innate kinship between the natural world and human migrations. Fascinated with human-geographical narratives and their interconnection to her own personal experiences, Gohar Dashti believes that nature is what connects her to the multiple meanings of ‘home’ and ‘displacement’, both as conceptual abstractions, and as concrete realities that delineate and contour our existence. The result is a series of quirky landscapes and portraits, as lush as they are arch, inciting questions about the immense, variegated, border-eschewing reach of nature – immune to cultural and political divisions – and the ways in which immigrants inevitably search out and reconstruct familiar topographies in a new, ostensibly foreign land.

Our weekly meetings will take place every Wednesday at the following times and locations:

- 10:30 am to 2 pm in Room 102
- Additionally, students will have the opportunity to receive guidance on their projects through personal and group discussions every Thursday from 10 am to 2 pm in Room 151. Please note that making an appointment is required.

Students will have the opportunity to receive guidance on their projects through personal and group discussions.

Links

https://gohardashti.com/

https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/reimagining-home/hear-from-gohar-dashti

Ausstellungen

Gohar Dashti’s works have found homes around the globe in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C.; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago, and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris. She has been awarded numerous art fellowships including a Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbertide (IT), 2024, ISP Research Residency Grant at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Museum für Islamische Kunst, 2023, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2017 & 2021), DAAD Award, Berlin (2009-2011) and Visiting Arts (1 Mile2 Project), Bradford/London (2009).