Farhad Kalantary Per Kvibergs gate 2, 0478 Oslo - Norway Born in Tabriz, Iran, 1962 Tel: +47 41421602 Email: farhad@atopia.no EDUCATION 1996 MFA, Filmmaking, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, USA 1992 BA, Broadcast Communication Arts, San Francisco State University, SF, USA SCREENINGS / EXHIBITIONS ( * = Separate) (C = Curator) 2014 A Review of a Decade of Video Art, Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran I Nasjonalmuseets blindsone, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Touring exhibition, Norway (Feb 2014) * Rotations, Aria Gallery, Tehran (April 2014) 2013 Høstutstillingen 2013, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo North 99, Form Against Background, Atopia, Oslo A New Beginning, Book launch, Trap, Oslo The Highlights, Babel Visningsrom for kunst, Trondheim, Norway (C) Underline, STILL LIVES & SELECTED ACTS, Dastan Gallery, Tehran, Iran 2012 Video Art festival Miden, Kalamta, Greece (C) What a mess Art Fair, Hyrogenfabrikken Kunsthall, Fredrikstad, Norway (C) The Highlights, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK (C) Presentation of works, Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway Presentation of works, Nordic Black Theater, Oslo Presentation of works, Oslo Fotokunstskole, Norway Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents, Amsterdam Vitrine, Atopia, Oslo (C) 2011 Vitrine, Atopia, Oslo, Norway (C) Loss and Locality, Hå gamle prestegard, Nærbø, Norway Retrospective: Film & Video art - Norway 1960-90, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo (C) * The Day of Removal, (Public commission), Lørenskog hus, Norway Parabola art film festival, Tensta, Sweden Cities Re-imagined, KinoKino, Sandnes, Norway New Screens Festival, New Castle, UK Tea House, Arte TV, (Broadcast), Farnce-Germany * Migrations, Trafo Gallery, Asker, Norway * Farhad Kalantary (Film works), Greusslich Contemporary, Berlin, Germany * A New Begining, Stenersenmuseet, Olso, Norway Iran via Video Current, Thomas Erben Gallery, NY, USA 2010 Høstutstillingen 2010, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo Nonalignment, Public Screens, i/o lab, Stavanger, Norway (C) Cinema Without Borders, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia A Video Serenade, Elisabeth Foundation of the Arts, NY, USA Festivale Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France Cities Re-imagined, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vojvodina, Serbia ArtVideoExchange, Festival International de Film et Video de Creation, Lebanon The Third season of Atopia s Vitrine Project, Oslo (curator) Entangled Locations, Fengselet Gallery, Høneføss film festival, Norway 2009 *Trails of Water Behind a Passing Boat, Gallery 3,14, Bergen, Norway
* Trails of Water Behind a Passing Boat, Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst. Trondheim, Norway Video Program, Bureau for Unstable Urbanism, Kjubh Kunstverein, Köln, Germany Høstutstillingen 2009, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo Winter, Public art project, Atopia s Vitrine, Oslo Norway Video Art, namatre.ba project, Trebinje, Bosna i Hercegovina Raulandutstillinga 2009, Rauland kunstforening, Norway Made in Norway, V.I.P. Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia Visions of Atopia, D21 & Prager Frühling, Leipzig, Germany The Second season of Atopia s Vitrine Project, Oslo (C) 2008 Independent Exposure 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA 2Move / Migratory Aesthetics, StenersenMuseet, Olso, & Belfast Exposed, Ireland * Life is Elsewhere, Public art project, Atopia, Oslo, Norway Trøndelagsutstillingen 2008, (as invited artist) Dora, Trondheim, Norway *Another September, Skanstull, Commission at the Stockholm underground Station Orebro International Videoart Festival 2008, Sweden Høstutstillingen 2008, Kunstnernes hus, Oslo Independent Film Show, Foundation Morra, Naples, Italy Videoworks, Kultur Hus, Tromsø, Norway 2007 Oslo Open 2007, Video Program, (curator) Constructions of Nature, Art Museum of Uppsala city, Sweden Sound of Mu, Oslo, Norway Supermarket, Stockholm, Sweden Mecal Int. Short Film Festval, Barcelona, Spain Norwydeo, Vaxhuset, Västerås, Sweden Ave Festival 2007, Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall Pro Arte Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia LIBRARY, Platform Garanti, Istanbul, Turkey 2006 *Galleri Brandsrup, Oslo Norske Bilder 2006, Rådhuset, Oslo Høsutstillingen2006 Fresh Air, Kunstverein INGAN, Berlin Norwedeo, Laznia, Contemporary Art Center, Gdansk, Poland Babal Gallery, Trondheim, Norway 2005 Transposition, Bjørvika Oslo, Norway GrenseLøs ( Boundless), Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, (touring exhib.) Norway *Film works, Atopia, Oslo the 16th Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Film Festival Atopic, Akershus kunstnersenter, Lillestrøm, Norway Film & Video programme at Norwegian Embassy & Kino Arsenal, Berlin Nemo film festival, Forum des Images, Paris Cinema LUX, Caen, France Ankara Int. Film Festival, Turkey La Rochelle International Film Festival, France X-FilmFestival for experimental film, video and new media, Sofia, Bulgaria The 4th Tunel Street Art Festival, Istanbul, Turkey Images film Festival, Toronto, Canada Barcelona international film festival, Spain Exile film festival, Gotebrg, Sweden Europa festival Scandinavia+, Rotterdam, nl. Media Art Friesland, nl
2004 Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway Rotterdam Intenational Film Festival, Nederlands VIDEOEX Experimental film & Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland Aye Aye International Film Festival, Nancy, France (Honorary prize for the poetry of the film, Tea House) Salon of Experimental Film & Video, Atopia, Oslo, Norway Media Art Festival in Friesland, Netherlands Midt-Nordisk Filmfestival, Trondheim, Norway The 15th. Nordisk Panorama, Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland Festival of nouveau cinema Montréal UN-SASÀ 2004 - INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARD in Rome-Barcelona-Berlin- New York Viper International Festival for Film,Video and New Media, Basel, Switzerland Høstutstillingen 2004, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo Norway Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2003 Unge Kunstneres Samfund, (UKS Gallery) Oslo, Norway Trøndelagsutstillingen, Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst, Norway Summer Exhibition, Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst, Norway 2002 Art costs more than sausages, Moderna Museet, Stockholm European Media Art festival s world Tour 2001/2002 norden@world - world texture, Frederik Bastion Gallery, Copenhagen Trans//Form, Narvas Kunstmuseum, Narva, Estonia Kunstnerforbundets Galleri, Riga, Latvia Kulturas Center, Daugavpils, Latvia Rokiskis Kunst og Kultur Center, Rokiskis, Lithuania Trøndelagsutstillingen, Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst, Norway 2001 *New Langton Arts Gallery, San Francisco, USA Efterårsudstillingen 2001, Charlottenborg-Fonden, Copenhagen, Denmark Trans//Form: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, and Overgaden, Copenhagen and Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway Festival of New Films, Split, Croatia Sea-Side Symposium, Palanga, Lithuania FIKE, International Short Film Festival of Évora, Portugal Trans-Art Gallery, Trondheim, Norway Mikrokino Festival, Belgrade, Yugoslavia 2000 TBK s Jubileumsutstilling,, Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst, Norway Lademoen by light, LKV, Trondheim, Norway 1999 Loose End, Trondheim Kunstforening & Filmhuset Rosendal, Norway Blick, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Street Gallery, Harringay, London, UK Glokal kunst i Norge, IKM, Oslo, Norway 1998 *Gallery GUN, Oslo, Norway Trøndelagsutstillingen, Trondheim s Kunsntersenter, Norway 1997 Incarceration Project,Shortage Town Hall, London, UK Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA, USA
*Deigo Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, USA New Perfomance Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA Women s Building, Film Art Foundation s Festival, San Francisco, USA Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, USA AWARDS & STIPENDS 2013 Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfonds prosjektstøtte, Norske billedkunstnere Prosjektstøtte, Norsk Kulturråd Prosjektstøtte, Fritt Ord 2011 Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfonds prosjektstøtte, Norske billedkunstnere Prosjektstøtte, Norsk Kulturråd Prosjektstøtte, Fritt Ord 2010 Statens garantiinntekt for kunstnere, Norway 2009 Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfonds prosjektstøtte, Norske billedkunstnere Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Norske billedkunstnere 2008 Statens Utstillinsstipend, Norsk Kulturråd 2007 Fond for Lyd og Bilde, film project: Balistan 2005 Artist Residency grant in Paltform Garanti Istanbul, OCA, Norway 2004-6 Statens Kunstnerstipend 2004 Arbeidsstipend 3 år 2003 Prosjektstøtte, Norsk Kulturråd 2002 Kulturelle Endringsprosesser i Samtidskunst, Norsk Kulturråd, film: Opacity Fond for Lyd og Bilde, film: Opacity Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Norske billedkunstnere 99-01 Aspirantordning for billedkunstner, TopFloor-LKV, Norsk Kulturråd 2000 Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Norske billedkunstnere 1999 Allmenne kulturformål, Trondheim kommune, film: "North 99" Loose End exhibition, Norsk kulturråd & Trondheim kommune 1998 Statens arbeidsstipend for yngre kunstnere, Norges Kunstnerråd 1997 Incarceration project, The Art Council of England, film: Unforgetting Street Gallery Project, The Art Council of England 1996 Spring Show Award, Film Installation And, SFAI, San Francisco Kodak Product Grant, SFAI, San Francisco COLLECTIONS - Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden: Unforgetting, (16mm Film) 1999 - Art Council Norway Tea House, (Super8 film) 2003 Frozen Mirrors, (Photo Installation) 2003 Massive Waves of Independence, (Video Installation) 2006 - Lørenskog kommune, (Lørenskog hus) The Day of Removal, (video) 2010 CURATORIAL WORK 2009-13Retrospective Exhibition of Experimental film & Video art Norway, Atopia, Oslo 2011-13The Highlights, film- & video art, Norway, 1960-90, Touring exhibition 2010 Public screens, Stavanger, Norway 2010 Entangled Locations, Fengselet gallery, Høneføss film festival, Norway 08-12 Vitrine, Atopia s public art project, Oslo 2008 Workshops on Eurocentrism & Whiteness, TotalGlobal Festival, Oslo, 2007 The Video Programs: Facing Differnces, OsloOpen2007, Oslo 2003-14Atopia, (Ongoing events and projects) (www.atopia.no) Oslo
2000 Short Circuits, A program of experimental films concerned with modes of editing and the use of sound, Minimalen film festival, Trondheim 1999 Loose End, An exhibition of films, video installations and fotography, with 12 international artists at Trondheim Kunstforening and Rosendal Cinema 1999 Street Gallery, A billboard project with 4 international artists in Harringay, London, UK OTHER RELEVANT ACTIVITIES/PROJECTS 13-14 Member of stipend committee, FFF 2003- Co-founder & Leader of Atopia project, Oslo, Norway 2006-7 Member of stipend committee, NBK 2006 Tutor with MA students, The Oslo National Academy of the Arts 98-01 Founder and Co-ordinator of TopFloor: a place for film, video and digital art, Trondheim, Norway 95-02 Teaching film and video workshops in Mission Highschool, San Francisco, San Francisco Art Institue, Nordland kunst og film skole, Kabelvåg, and Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, (through Etterutdanning for kunstnere). DISTRIBUTION Norwegian Film Institute, (www.nfi.no)