Koorosh Shishegaran
Born 1944, Qazvin
Education
Tehran Fine Art High School, 1967
BA in Interior Design, 1973
Selected Artistic Projects
Reproduction Art, 1973-74
Appropriation of Works of Great Artists, 1974-76
Postal Art, 1976
Art + Art, 1976-77
Art for Production, 1977-78
Socio-Political Posters, 1978-81
War Drawings, 1981-85
Selected Exhibitions
Mess Gallery, Tehran, Solo exhibition, 1973
Iranian National University, Tehran, Solo exhibition, 1974
Mess Gallery, Tehran, Solo exhibition, 1974
Talaar-e Iran (Qandriz), Tehran, Solo exhibition, 1976
Mess Gallery, Tehran, Solo exhibition, 1976
Central Youth Palace, Tehran, Solo exhibition, 1976
Farah-abad Youth Palace, Tehran, Solo exhibition, 1976
Wash Art Exhibition in Washington D.C, 1977
Basel Biennale, Switzerland, 1978
Classic Gallery, Tehran, Solo exhibition, 1989
Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Solo exhibition, 1990
Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Solo exhibition, 1992
Arya Gallery, Tehran, Solo exhibition, 1996
Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Solo exhibition, 1997
Millennium Painting Exhibition, London, 1999
Exhibition of Iranian Art, Rome, 2000
Meridian International Center, USA, 2001-2003
Barbican Art Center, London, 2001
Beijing International Biennial, 2003
Khak Gallery, Tehran, Solo exhibition, 2006
Khak Gallery, Tehran, Self-Portraits, 2007
Gallery 10, Tehran, Van Gogh’s Ear, autumn 2008
Gallery 10, Tehran, Mona Lisa, spring 2010
Gallery 10, Van Gogh’s Ear: Second Cut, autumn 2010
Opera Gallery, London, Solo exhibition, 2012
Opera Gallery, “Peace from the Bottom of My Art”, London, 2013
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (15 May – 24 August 2014), Unedited History: Iran 1960-2014
MAXXI museum, Rome, Unedited History, 2015
Shirin Gallery, Tehran, Solo exhibition, 2015
Bermondsey Project Space, Two Way Street, London, Solo exhibition, 2020
British Meuseum, London Reflections: Contemporary Art of Middle East and North Africa, 2021
Museum Collections
British Museum, London, UK
Davis Museum, Wesley College, Boston, US
TMOCA, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, IR
Selected publication
Books
Koorosh Shishegaran: The Art of Altruism, Ed. Hamid Keshmirshekan, London, Saqi Books, 2016
Reflections: Contemporary Art of Middle East and North Africa, Venetia Porter, British Museum, London, 2021
Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat, Ervand Abrahamian, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021
Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary, Fereshteh Daftari, London, I.B. Tauris, 2019
Honar: The Afkhami Collection of Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art, London, Phaidon Press, 2017
Iran: The Rebirth of a Nation, Hamid Dabashi, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Lili Golesatn’s Private Collection, Lili Golestan, Tehran, Nashre Cheshmeh Publications, 2016
Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran, Saeb Eigner, Merrell Publishers Ltd., London, 2015
Hunar-e Mu’aser-e Iran, risheh-ha va didgah-hay-e nuvin, Hamid Keshmirshekan, Tehran, Nazar Publication, 2015
Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives, Hamid Keshmirshekan, London, Saqi Books, 2013.
Iranian Modern Art Movement: The Iranian Collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, TMOCA, 2006
Catalogues
Reflections: Contemporary Art of Middle East and North Africa, British Museum, London, 2021
Two Way Street, Bermondsey Project Space, exhibition catalogue, London, 2020
Koorosh Shishegaran: A Window onto an Endless Chaos, Shirin Gallery, Art Dubai, 2015
Peace from the Bottom of My Art, Opera Gallery, exhibition catalogue, London, 2013
Koorosh Shishegaran, Opera Gallery, exhibition catalogue, London, 2012
Iranian Modern Art Movement: The Iranian collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, TMOCA, 2006
The 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial catalogue, TMOCA, 2004
Beijing International Biennial Catalogue, 2001
Iranian Contemporary Art, Barbican Center, Rose Issa, Ruyin Pakbaz, Daryush Shaygan, London, 2001
Art Breeze from the Gardens of Persia: New Art from Iran, Meridian International Center, Washington D.C., 2001
The First International Painting Biennial of the Islamic World catalogue, TMOCA, 2000
Magazines
Canvas magazine, Artist Profile, Volume 9, Issue 4, July/August 2013
Mokaab monthly, Artist Profile, No.8, April 2012
Art Tomorrow quarterly, Artist Profile, No.+3, Winter 2011
Neshan magazine, Artist Profile, No.18, Autumn-Winter 2008
Pages magazine, Eventual Spaces, No. 6, 2007
Tandis magazine, Artist Profile, No.74, June 2006
Architecture and Urbanism quarterly, Artist Profile, No.70&71, Summer 2003
Tavoos quarterly, Artist Profile, No.3&4, Spring and Summer 2000
Articles
Erik Nakjavani, Review of Koorosh Shishegaran: The Art of Altruism, Iranian Studies, Volume 51, Issue 2, 2018
Hamed Yousefi, ART+ART: The Avant-Garde in the Streets, e-flux journal, May 2017
Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi, Eventual Spaces, Pages magazine, No.6, 2007