Education and Residencies
Residency SODAS 2123, Vilnius – Festivity (2024)
Residency Grafikens hus, Stockholm – Collecting Thoughts (2021-2024)
Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design, DAI Art Praxis, Dutch Art Institute (2020-2022)
Master of Fine Arts, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2020-2022)
Cité Internationale des Arts, Konstakademien, Paris (2021)
Residency Tegel, Stockholm (2020)
Internship and Research Studies, Arab Image Foundation, Beirut (2019-2020)
Residency Botkyrka konsthall, Stockholm (2019)
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Solo Exhibitions in Selection
2024
The Taste of Pomegranate, Österängens konsthall, Jönköping (curated by Johanna Linder)
2023
Suddenly It Happens!, Public Art Agency & Grafikens hus, Stockholm, (curated by Macarena Dusant, Annika Enqvist and Didem Yildirim)
Keeping up with the Iranians, Nordic Culture Point, Helsinki
2022
Keeping up with the Iranians, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
2021
The Seeping Sun, in collaboration with Nour Helou, Södertälje Konsthall, Stockholm (by Joanna Sandell)
Shape-Shifting Flickers of Love, in collaboration with Nour Helou, Folkets Park, Malmö (curated by Tawanda Appiah)
We Have Never Been Modern, Page Not Found, The Hague
2020
The Eclipse of the (Fe)Male Sun, in collaboration with Nour Helou, Tegel, Stockholm (curated by Asrin Haidari and Maria Elena Guerra Aredal)
Memory for Forgetfulness, in collaboration with Cristian Quinteros Soto, Botkyrka konsthall, Stockholm (curated by Anneli Bäckman)
2018
Between the Cuts, Time Bleeds, Galleri Norberg, Norbergfestival (curated by Fia Sandström)
The Horizon of the Revolution, Shaping Resistance, Nuda, Stockholm (curated by Nora Hagdahl)
Group Exhibitions and Performances in Selection
2025
Yet Another Morning – Drawing in the Moderna Museet Collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (curated by Annika Gunnarsson)
The Triennial, Sundsvall Museum, Sundsvall (curated by Lina Aastrup)
BORDERLESS!, Mediterranea 20 Young Artists Biennale, Nova Gorica/Gorizia, Slovenia/Italy
The Taste of Pomegranate, Sundsvall Museum, Sundsvall (curated by Lina Aastrup)
The Lion’s Tail, Affair, Berlin
Keeping up with the Iranians, Real Dance Festival, Hannover (curated by Melanie Zimmermann)
The Savor of a Sweet Surprise, Real Dance Festival, Hannover (curated by Melanie Zimmermann)
2024
The Garden Grieves My Heart, Köttinspektionen, A movement to hold (curated by Alba Folgado Grin)
The Lion’s Tail, Goodbye Party, CAC Reading Room, Vilnius (curated by Edvinas Grin)
The Lion’s Tail, Röda Sten, Gothenburg (curated by Amila Puzić)
What’s in Your Suitcase, Röda Sten, Gothenburg (curated by Amila Puzić)
Keeping up with the Iranians, Oceanen, Gothenburg
In the Shadow of the New Sun, The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm
In the Shadow of the New Sun, Bonniers konsthall, Stockholm (curated by Samuel Girma and Sam Hultin as part of Radical Love)
Keeping up with the Iranians, Tanzpol, Berlin
Keeping up with the Iranians, Konträr, Stockholm
2023
Pickle Bar presents, West Den Haag, The Hague (curated by Slavs and Tatars)
Keeping up with the Iranians, Folkteatern Gothenburg
Something Else III, Off Biennale Cairo, The Citadel, Cairo (curated by Simone Njami, Moataz Nasr, Sara Rossling, and more)
The Taste of Pomegranate, The Swedish Embassy in Cairo, Cairo (curated by Sara Rossling and Power Ekroth)
Positions: Elsewheres, Stroom, The Hague (curated by Lua Vollaard)
Phantoms of Commons, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm
Matters of the Heart, Botkyrka konsthall, Stockholm (curated by Anneli Bäckman)
The Taste of Pomegranate, Halle 14, Catwings, Leipzig (curated by Steph Joyce and Theresa Zwerschke)
Belly Talk, Collective Ending, London (curated by Pascal de Graaf)
Keeping up with the Iranians, Uppsala konstmuseum, Uppsala (curated by Sara Rossling)
2022
The Garden Grieves My Heart, Uppsala konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden (curated by Alba Folgado)
Keeping up with the Iranians, Weld, Stockholm (curated by Anna Koch
Aeroponic Acts, Centrale Fies, Italy (curated by The Dutch Art Institute and Gabriëlle Schleijpen)
The Eclipse of the (Fe)Male Sun,Aguélimuseet, Sala, Sweden
Vargtimmen, MFA exhibition, Konstakademien, Stockholm (curated by Silvia Thomackenstein)
Swedish Acquisitions, Insights, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (curated by Asrin Haidari)
2021
Phantoms of the Commons, Tensta Konsthall
The Art of Cooking with Communist Dreams – From Garlic to Onion, Print & Play in collaboration with Boijmans Museum, Amsterdam (curated by Marieke van den Belt & Thieu Custers)
Memory for Forgetfulness, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
If a Curfew Violates Freedom of Movement, So Does the Visa Regime., Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam
2020
A diasporic reflection on the visualization of femininity by hand-coloured photographic portraits from Iran, Konstfack Research Week, Stockholm
2019
Cartography of Memory, PINA, Wien (curated by Johanna Thorell)
2018
Mangolo, with Title in Transgression och TransActions Studygroup, Berlin Biennale och IASPIS (curated by Gabi Ngcobo)
The Memory’s State of Exception, ISOTOP, Kärnreaktor R1, Stockholm, Minutes, Internet Biennial (curated by Amanda Ferrada)
Represented
Moderna Museet
Statens konstråd (Public Art Agency Sweden)
Arab Image Foundation Library
Botkyrka Municipality
Uppsala Art Museum
Public Art Commissions
2025-2029
Älvsorgeln (The River Organ), Gothenburg
2022-2023
Memory for Forgetfulness, Tumba Library
Dinner Recipe, Tumba Library
Grants in Selection
2025
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Artist Grant
2024
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Travel Grant
2023
The Swedish Art Council, Project Grant: Phantoms of Promise
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Travel Grant
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Artist Grant
2022
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, International Art Exchange, Keeping up with the Iranians
Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Artist Grant
Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, Artist Grant
Museum of Aguéli, Artist Grant
2021
Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, The Archives and Library of the Queer Movement (QRAB)
2020
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Assistant Grant for Runo Lagomarsino, Malmö
2019
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, International Art Exchange, Artistic research at the Arab
Image Foundation
Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Cité Internationales des Art in Paris
Stiftelsen Makarna Lindeqvists donation, Artistic research at the Arab Image Foundation
Stiftelsen August Ringnérs stipendiefond, Artistic research at the Arab Image Foundation
Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, Artistic research at the Arab Image Foundation
Stockholm Stad
2018
Stiftelsen AAA, Education Grant
Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, Artistic research: Leftist movements that came from Iran and Chile to Sweden
Stockholm Stad, Education Grant
2017
Stiftelsen Gustaf & Ida Unmans Donationsfond, Education Grant
Books
The Tale of the (Fe)Male Sun, spring 2025, Glänta
Publications of Essays and Short Stories in Selection
2024
Disturbing the Horizon of Misery – An interview with Lebanese Curator Nour Helou, SITE Zones
Ensaladas de Olivieh, The Fittja Kitchen Cookbook, Botkyrka konsthall
On the Capacities of Care – Johnny Chang and Afrang Nordlöf Malekian in Conversation with yasmine eid-Sabbagh, Collecting Thoughts – Project Year 2, Grafikens hus
Suddenly It Happens!, Collecting Thoughts – Project Year 2, Grafikens hus
2022
The Eclipse of the (Fe)Male Sun, nY
2021
Växlingar: Från Rachid Karami International Fair till Usine Seydoni i Kalmar, Paletten
In the Disguise of a Gift, Swedish History Museum
The Eclipse of the (Fe)Male Sun, with Nour Helou, Glänta
Who can see from heaven?, Paletten
How we organize ourselves is connected to love, with the editorial team of Kultwatch, Paletten
2020
The Eclipse of the (Fe)Male Sun, Arab Image Foundation
Speaking from Collapsing Infrastructures, with Nour Helou, Brand
Speaking From Collapsing Infrastructures, with Nour Helou, C-print
The Eclipse of the (Fe)Male Sun, Konstnären
2019
Who can see from heaven?, Kultwatch
Notes from Photographic Voids, Hjärnstorm
Hand-Coloring’s Rendering of Femininity in Iranian Portrait Photography, Tydningen
Curation
Phantoms of Promise, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2024)
What is the sound of home?, DOC!, Paris (2023)
In the Presence of Absence, e-flux screening room, New York (2023)
Migration as the Weave of Time, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (2023)
noncitizen studio, MKC, Stockholm (2022)
Project Leader
noncitizen, (2022-2023)
Teaching
Guest lecturer at Contemporary Performative Arts (MFA) – Gothenburg University (2025)
Guest lecturer at Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design (2025)
Workshop, The Rise of a Tehrangeles Diva, Kaunas Artists’ House (2024)
Guest lecturer at FutureBrownSpace at Stockholm University of the Arts (2024)
Guest lecturer at the Royal Institute of Art (2024)
Guest lecturer at Index (2022)
Guest lecturer at Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design (2019)
Workshops in writing and editorial practices, RFSL (2022)
Workshops in writing and editorial practices, noncitizen (2022)
Workshops in writing and editorial practices, Gävleborg Theatre (2021)
Workshops in writing and editorial practices, Dala Theatre (2019-2022)
Editor