Bahar Behbahani

Bahar Behbahani is a multidisciplinary artist. Persian Gardens, her latest series, explores the association between seductive botany and colonialism and the relationship between knowledge and power. She has been awarded Open Sessions at the Drawing Center in New York for 2018–20. Behbahani’s work was most recently featured in the solo exhibition Let the Garden Eram Flourish, at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College; the 7th Moscow Biennale; and the 11th Shanghai Biennale. Her work has also been exhibited in Thomas Erben Gallery, New York; the 18th Biennale of Sydney, Australia; amd Sharjah Biennial 10 in the United Arab Emirites, among many others. In 2016, Behbahani was invited by Time Equities’ Art-In-Buildings Program to be an artist in residence for a full year. Behbahani has also been awarded the MacDowell Colony, an Art Omi International Artists Residency by the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant.