Tarlan Rafiee was born in Tehran in 1980. She started printmaking in 2004 and has since worked as a visual artist/printmaker and participated in more than thirty group exhibitions and held four solo shows nationally and internationally. She also works as a tutor in printmaking at her own studio and other art institutes. She lives and works between Tehran and London.
Solo exhibitions:
2014 30 Years (with Yashar Samimi Mofakham) | JAMM Art Gallery | Dubai
2011 Golestan Art Gallery | Tehran
2009 Naregatsi Art Institute | Yerevan
French Embassy | Tehran
2008 Haft Samar Gallery | Tehran
Selected group exhibitions:
2014 The Rose and the Nightingale: A Persian Iconography (curated by Maneli Keykavoussi)
JAMM Art Gallery | Dubai
2013 Tehran Calling: London (curated by Tarlan Rafiee and Yashar Samimi Mofakham) | LPS Gallery | London
LPS1 - Featured | LPS Gallery | London
2012 Haft Negah | Niavaran Cultural Centre | Tehran
Compact Prints 2012 | Umbrella Studio | Townsville (Australia)
2011 Contemporary Printmaking | Fravahr Art Gallery | Tehran
X International Biennial of Engraving “Premio Acqui” | Acqui Terme (Italy)
Selfdom / a personal project (curated by Yashar Samimi Mofakham) | 7Samar Gallery | Tehran
2010 Dar Al Funoon | Kuwait City
Charsoo Group | Aria Art Gallery | Tehran
Mahe Mehr Gallery | Tehran
8th Triennial of Printmaking | Chamalières (France)
2009 Mehrva Art Gallery | Tehran
IX International Biennial of Engraving “Premio Acqui” | Acqui Terme (Italy)
2008 Naestved Print Studio | Naestved (Denmark)
British Art Medal Society | Birmingham University | Birmingham (UK)
Compact Prints 2008 | Umbrella Studio | Townsville (Australia)
2007 VIII International Biennial of Engraving “Premio Acqui” | Acqui Terme (Italy)
CAPA Photo Exhibition | Museum of Contemporary Art | Isfahan (Iran)
Society of Iranian Painters | Momayez Gallery | Teheran
Society of Iranian Painters | Sa’d Abad Museum | Teheran
2006 Painting and fine art prints (with Yashar Samimi Mofakham) | Seyhoun Art Gallery | Tehran
Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition | Day Art Gallery | Tehran
Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition | Museum of Contemporary Art | Isfahan
Compact Prints 2006 | Umbrella Studio | Townsville (Australia)
2005 Charsoo-Honar Group Exhibition | Haft-Samar Art Gallery | Tehran
4th Charsoo-Honar Group Exhibition | Museum of Contemporary Art | Isfahan (Iran)
Collections:
Zoroastrian Cultural Centre | Paris
Fereydoun Ave Collection | Paris, Tehran, Dubai
Museum of Contemporary Art | Isfahan (Iran)
Naestved Municipal County’s collection (Denmark)
Engraving Museum of Acqui Terme (Italy)
London Print Studio | London
Umbrella Studio | Townsville (Australia)